My Deep-sea Fishery

Later, it is said that some people went to Antarctica to study the mirage, but they did not find the prototype of the glacier in the mirage.

"Captain, it's not a question of belief or not, be careful with the Wannian Ship." Chen Qingsheng whispered.

Xiang Yang nodded. In fact, in Xiang Yang's opinion, it is normal to not find the prototype of the glacier in the mirage in Antarctica.

The glaciers in Antarctica often flow, and it is normal for the size of the image to be different from the original image after light refraction.

But Xiang Yang didn't bother to explain this to Chen Qingsheng and the others, and it wasn't a bad thing to have a certain awe of nature in Xiang Yang's view.

Moreover, Xiang Yang felt that this mirage had existed for a long time. After he explained it to the crew first, and then went to discuss with Gao Chuang, the mirage might have ended long ago.

"Huh?" At this moment, Xiang Yang suddenly looked at the sky in surprise.

"What's the matter? Captain." Chen Qingsheng raised his head suspiciously, only to see a gray-black dot in midair, which seemed to be a large seabird.

"That seems to be an Antarctic skua." Xiang Yang said.

"Antarctic skua? Is it a kind of seagull? Why, this kind of bird is very rare?" Chen Qingsheng asked.

Xiang Yang shook his head, "No, I suspect that there may be islands nearby. The Antarctic skua has a strong flying ability, and its posture of spreading its wings and soaring is fierce and extremely brave. When flying over islands, they rarely fly to the surface of the sea, even if they hunt for prey, they will only fly to the sky not far from the shore to circle with their prey."

Xu Fang shook his head and said: "There are charts in this sea area, and there are no islands near the chart. The nearest island is more than an hour for us to sail to, but there are a lot of floating islands around us. Ice is real."

"Then this Antarctic skua might be living on the ice floe." Xiang Yang said with a smile.

Antarctic skuas generally like to make their homes next to penguin colonies, and they make their homes on larger ice floes, which is reasonable.

"Brother Yang, does this seagull steal?" Fang Youqun asked suddenly.

"Huh? Why do you ask that?" Xiang Yang asked in confusion.

Fang Youqun took it for granted, "If it doesn't steal anything, why is it called the Antarctic Skua?"

Xiang Yang burst into laughter when he heard the words, "In Antarctica, there are only predators and prey, and symbiotic relationships. There is no such thing as stealing or not. They look very similar."

The skua is a kind of seagull with a body length of about 60 cm, which looks a bit like a seagull, but is thicker than ordinary seagulls, with light brown feathers and large white wing spots.

This kind of seagull never builds nests by itself, but takes domineering methods to seize the nests of other birds, so it is named skuas, and is widely distributed in northeast my country, Jiexian County, East China Sea, southeast coast and other areas.

The Antarctic skua is a seagull that looks very similar to the skua. It generally likes to build its nest near the penguin gathering place. Sometimes the cubs are accidentally trampled to death by the penguins. It is a fierce and tenacious species that only lives in the Antarctic. Vigorous rare bird.

It is said that, except for George Island, the Antarctic skuas in other places in Antarctica have almost become extinct. At present, it is a rare bird carefully protected by the International Biological Conservation Organization.

Xiang Yang thought for a while, and suddenly said: "This is actually a very contradictory bird."

"Why do you say that?" Fang Youqun asked puzzled.

Xiang Yang looked up at the Antarctic skua in mid-air, and said with a smile: "On the one hand, Antarctic skuas hope to have their own territory, and once they find a "foreign race" intervening in their territory, they will start a desperate battle with them. It is not tolerant, and on the other hand, it needs to rely on the protection of the penguin colony to survive, otherwise the cubs can only be the seal's dessert."

"The most important thing is that penguins don't like the Antarctic skua as a neighbor. The Antarctic skua is the penguin's biggest enemy. During the penguin breeding season, the Antarctic skua will guard the penguin colony every day and often attack the penguin's habitat by surprise. Eating penguin eggs and young penguins, causing birds to fly and eggs to fight, and the neighbors are uneasy."

When the people around heard it, the eyes they looked at the bird in mid-air suddenly changed.

Isn't this a typical kind and revenge?

There are still such birds in this world.

Xiang Yang saw that many crew members looked at the Antarctic skua with contempt in their eyes, and quickly added: "Don't underestimate it, it is the seabird that can reach the southernmost point in the world. Some people have found their traces on the South Pole, except for penguins, it may be the only bird that has been to the South Pole."

The survivability of the Antarctic skua is really strong. It can survive indiscriminately throughout the entire Antarctic Circle, and it can survive tenaciously at minus one hundred degrees.

Fang Youqun smacked his lips, and said contemptuously, "No wonder it's called a skua, it's really the right name."

Xiang Yang smiled and shook his head, but said nothing.

Nature always chooses the fittest to survive. For the continuation of the group, Xiang Yang does not think that the skuas have done anything wrong.

Antarctic skuas are blatant robbers, and thus established their status in the Antarctic continent, and are nicknamed "air robbers" by humans.

They also often attack baby seals. Whenever they see a mother seal about to give birth to a baby seal, groups of Antarctic skuas will always hover over the mother seal, always ready to eliminate the danger in the cradle.

Thinking of this, Xiang Yang quickly said: "No, hurry up and get a stick, don't let it fall on our boat."

"What's wrong? Brother Yang, is it possible that this thief dares to come to our boat to grab food?" Fang Youqun asked.

Xiang Yang was taken aback, "Snatch food?"

Xiang Yang suddenly remembered just now that on the cabin roof of his fishing boat, two tiger-headed sea eagles were hatching eggs, why did they suddenly drag them into the boat for food?

But then Xiang Yang laughed, "Not to mention, this skua really dares to steal from humans."

Xiang Yang remembered a paper report on Antarctic skuas that he had seen before. The report said that whenever Antarctic scientific research stations or scientific research ships were carrying food in Antarctica, Antarctic skuas would suddenly appear and circle above people’s heads .

Once food is scattered on the ground due to broken packaging, Antarctic skuas will unceremoniously swoop down to grab the food.

Even the picnic food brought by the scientific research personnel will be taken away by Antarctic skuas as long as they are not careful.

Because Antarctic skuas are very precious birds, if this happens, humans can only look at the sky and sigh.

"But I told you to prevent it from falling on our boat. It's not because it will snatch our food. It will eat whatever it likes on our boat. We don't lack a little bird food. I'm worried that it will stare at those two tiger heads. There's a sea eagle egg." Xiang Yang said.