Chapter 434: The Inuit
Walruses, the largest king of marine mammals besides cetaceans, are the only killer whales among marine mammals.
This thing looks very ugly, with a round head like a bald Tang monk, but the eyes are Zhu Bajie's, with a short nose and long teeth, and when you look at your face, you feel that they must be embarrassed all the time......
The largest males can weigh 4 to 5 tons, and females can weigh close to a ton, and polar bears never dare to mess with adult walruses, both male and female.
They are fierce and fierce, and all male sea lions are masters of martial arts, and the scarring on their bodies proves that they have spent their lives learning how to fight.
The male walrus is not only huge in size, but also a pair of fangs is a fierce super weapon, the longest can easily break through 90 cm, not only is it a good helper when fighting, but also usually swims under the ice, and the body turns its belly against the ice, and chisels open the ice in two or three strokes.
Female walruses are less aggressive, but they also have advantages, every female walrus is a good mother, they will breastfeed for a year and a half to two years after giving birth, and help the child hunt, until the child is very old, they will let the baby away.
The female walrus's mantra to the babies is: how can you survive in this world if you don't even have 500 kilograms?
If a polar bear attacks a baby walrus, the female walrus will try desperately to protect her young, and she will have a good chance of winning, as long as she can delay for a while, it can turn into a group fight.
But if you think that walruses are ferocious animals, then they don't even eat fish, and their main diet is all kinds of mussels and shrimp, crabs, squid, etc.
The biggest impact of the global periodic warming is near the polar regions, where ice and snow melt in many places, creating huge new resources for fisheries, and making it easy to extract oil, etc., but this is not a good thing. At least for many marine creatures, such as walruses, many of the ice floe islands they are accustomed to live have melted and they have had to go ashore......
In 2014, a total of 35,000 walruses across the United States were stranded on the west coast of Alaska!
In 2015, the highest number of stranded animals in a small town alone was more than 6,000!
Tang Hai was originally very sorry that his fishing ground was occupied by sea lions, and now he saw those people with sad faces. Look at more than 2,000 more, sea lions and walruses! He couldn't help but laugh out loud!
The laughter was so arrogant that the people on the opposite shore quickly noticed the princess fleet.
The sun was shining at this time, but it was not warm, and there were only so many people on the shore. Alaska is not the No. 1 fishing state in the United States, but in fact, the main income of the state government here is the oil industry, which does not require many people to work at all, and there are even fewer fishermen here, and the local residents are even more pitiful.
So a few people. Tang Hai didn't care about the other party's call, and smiled even brighter.
"On that ship! There is a seed down! ”
"What do you say! I can't hear you! ”
"I said ship! There is a seed down! ”
"What did you say!"
Tang Hai could actually hear it, he was trying to make it bad again!
"On that ship! I said you have a seed and come down! ”
The yellow man on the shore, who was taller than Tang Hai, yelled in annoyance.
This suddenly shocked the walrus herd!
The reason why walruses don't fish is because their eyesight is so poor that their teeth and whiskers can sense the movement of shrimp and crabs, but they can't do anything about fish.
Ancient soldiers lacked vitamins, could not see at night, and would bomb the camp at the slightest movement in a tense moment.
The situation was similar at this point, and the walrus king was visibly frightened. Immediately there was a nervous roar, followed by the roar of the male walruses in the walrus herd! Many walruses ran towards the yellow man. frightened the other party and fled......
"Rich guy! Don't let me see you again! ”
"Goodbye, friends! Good luck! ”
Tang Hai waved goodbye to those people, but he was not worried about them in his heart. Walruses can be at least faster in the sea than a small battery, but on land, it is slightly stronger than a three-year-old, which is why polar bears dare to take baby walruses away. If only they could be faster, the polar bears wouldn't mess with them unless they were stupid.
When he was far away from the coast, Merlin, who had been thinking about it, said, "That should have been an Inuit just now." ”
"Well, I thought those were fishing farmers like me, from China, Japan, and South Korea!" Tang Hai was a little surprised. Inuit, aren't they Eskimos? The Eskimo translates as 'man who eats raw meat', and if you say that, you will definitely be beaten, so they all say another thing: Inuit......
Tang Hai never cared about nationality, race, or even height, weight, gender, sexual orientation, or financial power......
He has a very cheerful personality and many friends, and the reason why he has always had a good relationship with those people is because Tang Hai never cares about these.
In the past, when he saw a yellow person, Tang Hai would not ask the other party's nationality, but he could usually tell it from his conversation or name.
The Indian Tang Hai also knew that there were many old Mo, but there were few yellow pure-blooded people, and Tang Hai was a little surprised when he saw the Inuit so pure-blooded at first glance.
"Well, it's Inuit. In the past, the Inuit relied on whale oil or walrus oil for lighting and heating, and they even relied on sled dogs for travel. People always think of them as special, but in reality, living on this earth, no matter where people are, need power plants and schools, so they will definitely communicate with the big world as well. The North Slope region of northern Alaska is home to about 10,000 Inuit, and it's not surprising to see Inuit here at Barrow Point, where we are heading to Point Barrow, which is home to Inuit. ”
Tang Hai crossed his arms and looked into the distance, and he had the impression that the Inuit were savages who killed whales and walruses for a living......
"The Inuit are not poor, Pradhoe Bay is the first oil field in the United States, just in the waters of the Northeast Arctic Circle of Alaska, after the Oguan Sea is over, the Guanhai political axe is going to extract oil from the Chukchi Sea in the northwest, no matter where the oil is extracted, it is necessary to subsidize the Inuit in Alaska, and now a lot of people live in very good small buildings, receive a good education, many people even have cars, and they also have a lot of fishing boats."
Pradhoe Bay is next to the U.S.-Canada border, and the Chukchi Sea is part of the Arctic Ocean between the United States and Russia......
Tang Hai thought about last year or the year before last, and saw a bunch of people driving rubber boats to Seattle to protest, saying that Oguanhai should not risk pollution to develop the Chukotka Sea......
Why did you go to Seattle, Washington to protest against oil development outside Alaska?
Because there's not a lot of people in Alaska! No one can be found in the protests!
"Isn't the North Slope Inuit a large oil development area on both the east and west sides? They won't make trouble? Tang Hai was surprised by this.
…… (To be continued......)