Chapter 293: Prison Storm
Once you're on the road in the tundra car, the rocks on the tundra occasionally make you mistake it for a polar bear, and the branches of the trees swaying in the wind attract all eyes.
The weather is nice, and when you look up at the prismatic shape of the sun, this is the solar halo, and the sunlight is refracted or reflected by ice crystals as it passes through the cirrus clouds.
When there are cirrus clouds composed of ice crystals in the sky, there are often one or two or more colored rings centered on the sun and inner infrared violet around the sun, and sometimes there will be many colored or white light spots and arcs of light, which is very magical.
The driver proudly introduced the Far North, due to the vast territory, polar bears like to be alone, have no sense of territory, and want to see them completely by luck. Even Svalbard, which claims to have more than 2,000 polar bears, may not be visible.
This is the only place in the world where they can be seen 100 percent. Some expedition companies even advertise that they can't see polar bears and refund the full tour price. If you're lucky, it's also normal to see more than 20 polar bears on a single trip.
Not only are there many of them, but they are also long, and you can meet them for most of the year. In February and March, the mother bear will leave the burrow with her cubs and explore the new world outside. At that time, it is the best time to find polar bear cubs and take pictures of the tenderness of polar bear mothers and children.
The most beautiful is July and August, when purple flowers are everywhere in midsummer, and polar bears haunt the flowers. When the snow melts in the summer, watch the polar bears on the shore roam among the rocks and wildflowers, frolicking, and the big ones in the flowers will definitely change the perception that they only exist in the snow and ice.
Seal hunting season begins in the fall, when Hudson Bay is not yet fully frozen to hunt ringed seals under the ice. They have been hungry all summer and gather from all directions, wait for the sea to freeze, and start eating to store enough fat to survive the winter.
October is the golden period of Churchill's bear watching, travel experts, global bear watching enthusiasts, and professional photographers all staring at these 20 days, the snow just covers the tundra, a piece of silver, polar bears play in the snow-white world, is the most beautiful time of the year.
Finally came to the best observation point, there are many inn cars parked, with a total length of 100 meters, 6 carriages, 2 bedrooms, 1 restaurant, 1 lounge, 1 storage room, 1 staff room, although the sparrow is small, it is all organs.
I stayed here at night, and I chose this place because it is not far away from the only prison in the world where polar bears are held. Every year when the bear season arrives, the big guys who wander around the town and rummage through the garbage cans are caught and transported by helicopter to a distant place for release at the end of their sentences.
Standing on the high place of the observation deck, sure enough, there are two polar bears around, and the sun shines on them through the inn, just like a warm light, a leisurely walk, worthy of being the home of polar bears.
The car was not enjoyable, and the driver and guide took everyone out and followed the footprints to find it. In the distance, I saw a polar bear's feet sticking out of the snow hole, and quickly stopped.
It had noticed someone approaching, but didn't care at all and started playing to its heart's content, and the driver said it was just a female bear. Every year in December, the baby is born in the snow cave, and it is not until March that the baby comes out.
The main food is ringed seals, which feed on the ice, and the high flow of water from nearby rivers causes the salinity of the sea to be low, making it hot at freezing points, so Hudson Bay is the first to freeze near Churchilltown when the cold snap hits in mid-November every year.
Hungry for months, they naturally can't wait to rush to the ice to hunt for delicious food. With a very keen sense of smell, you can smell seals under the ice for several meters, burrow in the ice, and wait quietly for the seals to come out to breathe and catch them in one fell swoop.
The most popular place is the nearby open garbage dump, where sometimes about 40 heads come a day to find food. Polar bears are now under strict precautionary measures, intercepted at the entrance to the town, and there are special bear police.
If they are intercepted three times, they will be put down and put in jail, where they will only be given snow as drinking water and no food to punish the bad guys who break the law.
The purpose of this forced fast was to prevent the prisoners from going to the trouble of the human race. After starving for a period of time, or when the prison is full, anesthesia is administered, put in large nets, and sent by helicopter to a place dozens of kilometers away for release.
After a period of tossing, there will be a feeling of fear in prison, and those who run away in the future will not come back.
SC Johnson approached the prison bars and looked at the behemoth in front of him up close. When a male bear saw someone, he actually ran over and stood up to say hello?
Think about what it's like to have a big guy who is 2.5 tall and can weigh up to 800 kilograms wave at you?
They are intelligent and curious, and they will adopt different strategies and tactics when hunting. They even know how to bury excess food with ice to avoid smelling it from the same kind.
The most awesome is the sense of smell, which is thousands of times sharper than that of humans, can smell food 30 kilometers away, and can also detect the existence of other people of the same kind, especially the opposite sex.
The heavy fur looks off-white, but it is actually a transparent and colorless hollow tube that appears white under the reflection of sunlight to absorb sunlight and retain heat, and it is also the best protective color on the snow.
Instead of calling it a polar bear, it is more appropriate to call it a sea bear, they are all strong swimmers, the forelimbs kick the water, the hind limbs control the direction, swim a hundred and ten kilometers a day, and it is not a problem at all.
Suddenly I saw a small bear not far away, and as soon as I saw the big bear, I turned around and ran?
It turns out that female bears start from conceiving bears and take care of bears after giving birth, and they have to go four years without mating with male bears. The male bear is really panicked, and he can only kill the small one to achieve the purpose of mating, which is really ruthless!
Back at the inn, everyone got together, drank and chatted, and took out all kinds of photos to share. It wasn't until the evening that SC Johnson finally understood the root cause of living here.
Falling asleep to the snoring of a polar bear, it falls asleep at the wheels, with the beautiful aurora above its head, and the goddess Aurora is fortunate to be there, dancing in the night sky with its gorgeous skirt......
With powerful beasts crawling around and goddesses dancing on their heads, is there a feeling of being in a myth, it is really an unforgettable travel experience!
Unfortunately, as global temperatures rise, the Hudson Bay freeze date is gradually postponed, and polar bears are starving for longer and fewer days.
Although they are the largest carnivores on the planet's land, they are just as vulnerable to climate change. The thought that his every action might have a huge impact on other creatures made Johnson feel more awe.
The trip to Canada was very short, the environment was good, there were few people, and the meeting was very cordial. It's a pity that there isn't much food, I don't know why, but it obviously feels like Europe is far more elaborate than the people of the Americas?
European countries are small, but they have their own customs and unique folk customs. The Americas are big, but very rough, and many times you run for days and arrive at your destination with great anticipation, and the result is ......
That's it.