Chapter 650: Emperor Penguin
This Prino full-tracked snowmobile is a modified one with a total of two engines, one for the main and one for the second. The main engine is naturally equipped on the original car, which is used to provide power for the snowmobile, and the auxiliary engine is installed at the rear of the rear compartment, which is not usually used, but once Tang Feng stops to rest or stay overnight, this engine will start, because the main function of this engine is to provide heat for the cabin of the snowmobile.
If such a configuration is outside the South Pole, it is nothing at all, but if it is on the Antarctic continent, it is quite a luxurious configuration, because when exploring on the Antarctic continent, the most precious thing is the supply materials, and among all the supply materials, in addition to food, oil is the most important, but this thing is the most consumed, the most important weight and volume, so other expeditions, when exploring on the Antarctic continent, pay special attention to the consumption of oil.
When other expedition members were exploring the Antarctic continent, they slept in tents or snowmobiles at night, but they all slept in sleeping bags, and there was no heating equipment at all. And this car is specially equipped with an engine for heating for Tang, and its fuel consumption is twice that of an ordinary snowmobile.
Of course, this configuration was specifically requested by Tang. Oil or something, for Tang Feng who has a star core, it is nothing at all, Tang Feng wants to be comfortable. On such a cold day, if there is no warm air or something to keep warm, it will really kill people.
Now within a radius of dozens of square kilometers, there is no one at all, so no one knows about Tang Feng, even if he is extravagant.
The snowmobile climbed the last slope and finally reached the top of the small hill that was not very steep, and went further. It is a large ice field with a slight undulation, and the snowmobile can fly on the ice field to your heart's content.
However, when Tang Feng's gaze was withdrawn from a distance, a dense group of penguins attracted Tang Feng's attention.
There were hundreds, maybe thousands, of these penguins, all of them, judging by the yellow fur around their necks. This is undoubtedly the largest and best-looking emperor penguin among penguins.
Antarctic penguins like to live in groups, with a group of hundreds, thousands, tens of thousands, and even more than 10 to 200,000 individuals. On the ice shelves of the Antarctic continent, or on the sea ice and ice floes around Antarctica, it is common to see flocks of penguins congregating.
Emperor penguins are also a species of penguins that prefer to live in groups, but in early summer. Emperor penguins are supposed to be by the sea, so why are they still here? Tang Feng was very curious about this.
The number of this group of emperor penguins is only moderate in the emperor penguin population, and the number of 1,800 is not a large colony. These emperor penguins are just below this small hill, and the big ones are leading the small ones, and they are staggering towards the top of the hill.
Emperor penguins are beautiful, but if they act, there is only one word to describe it - Han!
If you talk about the degree of cuteness. Tang Feng really hasn't seen a more adorable animal than this group of emperor penguins, even when Depp Downey and Woods were young. It's not as cute as this group of emperor penguins that are wobbly and gliding on the ground for a distance from time to time. There are many little penguins in the middle of this group of emperor penguins, and it is clear that this is a colony of penguins that have just hatched in their habitat and are on their way to the sea.
Seeing the direction of action of this group of emperor penguins and those little penguins, Tang Feng realized that he seemed to have made a mistake. That is, the date of the emperor penguin migration to the sea should be from the end of November to the beginning of December, and at this time, it is not normal to meet migrating emperor penguins on the road?
Tang Feng suddenly remembered a movie he had watched before that moved him very much, and Tang Feng vaguely remembered that the name of that movie seemed to be called "Diary of an Emperor Penguin". The documentary is a documentary with narration that depicts the emperor penguin's strong willpower in the extremely harsh climate conditions of Antarctica. An arduous journey to survive and reproduce.
Tang Feng clearly remembers how the group of emperor penguins in the movie started to move towards a fixed habitat and breeding ground from the beach at the end of March, and then paired up one by one and laid eggs, after laying eggs, the mother penguin braved the snowstorm in the cold season to go to the beach hundreds of kilometers away to find food because of excessive energy consumption, and the task of hatching the baby penguins fell on the penguin father.
In order to hatch the little penguins and take care of the newborn baby penguins, the great penguin fathers can only stand in place for more than two months to hatch, even if the storm moon is coming, this group of penguin fathers can only rely on each other to resist the wind and cold, and this group of penguin fathers will form a large circle in the blizzard, the penguins inside will get a relatively warm environment, and the outside penguins will resist the wind and cold for the penguins inside.
What touched Tang Feng the most was that the position of the penguin fathers gathered together was not fixed, they were like flowing water, constantly exchanging positions, and the penguins inside would move outward from a fixed direction to replace the penguin fathers outside, and the penguin fathers outside would also gradually move to the middle of the circle to obtain a relatively warm environment, so that these constantly moving penguin fathers formed a situation of constantly resisting wind and cold. to make sure that every penguin will survive the blizzard.
Then, the mother penguin comes back to take over from the penguin father to continue raising the baby penguins, and it is not until the cold season is over that the family of three and the other penguin families will form a large group again and take the babies to the sea.
Although there are many plots that Tang Feng can't remember clearly, Tang Feng remembers the few clips that impressed Tang Feng the most. For example, the group of penguins mentioned just now alternately resisted each other from the wind and cold, for example, the penguin fathers stood motionless in the cold ice and snow for more than two months
Anyway, it was through that film that Tang Feng learned that the emperor penguins were so loving, and in order to reproduce and live, they showed enough selflessness, enough strength and enough love in the confrontation with the bad weather of nature.
In the past, when Tang Feng was in school in Yanjing, he had seen emperor penguins in the zoo, but it was the first time he had seen Tang Feng in the wild, and because of the influence of that film, Tang Feng turned off the engine of the snowmobile, and then put on a cold-proof suit and jumped off the snowmobile. (To be continued.) )