Dolphins and whales are both cetaceans who use echolocation to orient, catch prey, and communicate with their companions.

Their echolocation system is similar to a human "sonar" system for positioning and navigation. It is said that mankind invented the "sonar" system and was inspired by them.

However, in recent years, due to the frequent human activities, changes in the marine environment, and high-intensity noise pollution interference, cetaceans have lost their way or even stranded from time to time.

In the ocean, there has always been a saying that "when a whale falls, everything is born".

When a whale falls, all things are born. Born in the sea, return to the sea.

The phenomenon of a whale sinking to the bottom of the ocean after death is known as a whale fall. It is essentially part of the deep-sea ecosystem.

A whale carcass can support a circulatory system dominated by decomposers for up to 100 years.

But the whales that are frequently stranded can no longer return to the embrace of the sea, so they can only let themselves rot, stink, swell, and finally turn into a pool of fishy fish bones on the shore.

They must die without understanding why the "echolocation" on which they depend for their survival has lost its purpose.

I can no longer find the direction of my home, I can no longer see my relatives and friends, and I can no longer pinpoint my prey......

When they close their eyes and leave this world, they must be filled with despair.

The game of "Rescue Marine Animals" is far from over, and the side quests have been released.

[Get up close and personal with a "whale fall.] ]

However, this time the game mission seems to be simply for players to have a "site visit".

Whales are quite common in the sea, but it is rare to see whales that survive to the end of their lives.

Human overfishing, deterioration of the marine environment, etc., are all causes.

If you want to experience a whale fall the whole time, you must at least know where the whales are.

However, there is no time limit for side quests, and players are not in a hurry, and they still seize the time to rescue many marine animals with a casual mentality for the time being.

During this period, the little octopuses that Tang Qinqin took care of reached the time to break their shells.

She held the jar to find a place where the food was plentiful and suitable for the young to grow, and said goodbye to the baby octopuses that hatched from the jar.

The newly hatched baby octopus was cute, Tang Qinqin looked at them scattered around looking for food, and suddenly felt a trace of the old mother's mentality.

Nature is cruel, and very few of these baby octopuses survive until they grow up safely.

But a complete ecosystem requires a variety of organisms to work together, and when they are young, they are eaten, and when they grow up, they will eat other marine creatures.

The competition for survival of the fittest and survival of the fittest is fierce and cruel everywhere.

Putting away his worries, Tang Qinqin took one last look at the little octopuses, and then turned his head and left.

……

At this time, there is a fishing moratorium at sea, and there are basically no fishing boats operating. It's a good time for the animals in the ocean to thrive.

Tang Qinqin and his friends watched the wonders of the seahorse family born to offspring from male seahorses up close, and the way to distinguish between male and female is very simple, male seahorses with abdominal sacs (nursery bags) are male seahorses, and female seahorses are not.

Seahorses are the only animals on Earth that are born by males.

However, the male seahorse only plays a "hatching" role, and the eggs are still derived from the female seahorse, and its nursery bag is equivalent to an "incubator".

In August and September, they are at the peak of their breeding season, just in time for the end of the moratorium, and the fishermen will open their nets to catch fish.

Seahorse is a precious Chinese medicine with high economic value, which can strengthen the body, regulate qi and replenish blood, relax tendons and activate the body.

Since most seahorse species now belong to the endangered and vulnerable category, many projects have been developed to breed seahorses in captivity.

Because wild seahorses are very precious, Tang Qinqin, as a good law-abiding and moral citizen, cut off his idea of wanting to "touch the fish".

It seems that I don't know when I have a strange "Chinese medicine collecting habit", and I want to collect medicinal materials when I see them that I don't have.

What's more, where do you raise your own seahorses? It's impossible to plant it in the back mountains, right?

Tang Qinqin had a strange scene in her mind where she dug a pit on the back mountain and planted the seahorses one by one in the ground.

The picture is a bit deviant, so let's let it live freely in the sea.

Opportunities are always hard to come by.

On this day, players who were "checking" the long line of marine animals suddenly heard a long, ethereal voice from far and near.

The sound seemed to come from the distant sea, and it seemed to come from the mysterious ocean floor.

When the voice got closer and closer, a behemoth also appeared in front of everyone's eyes.

It's a whale! It's a humpback whale!

It was so large that it looked like a moving island, and it was the first time everyone had seen such a huge creature in person, and they were so shocked that no one could speak.

That ethereal, deep voice was the one it came from.

When it swam in front of everyone, everyone realized that it was still followed by two calves, which were blocked by its body and were not found.

Don't look at the word "fish" in the name of the whale, it is not a fish, it is a mammal, they are viviparous, lactating, and breathe with their lungs, and the calf grows up sucking their mother's milk.

Similar to the terrestrial bat is not a bird, but a mammal.

The two calves followed the big whale closely, approaching each other affectionately from time to time, frolicking with each other.

Players watched intently as they faded away.

It took a long time to find his voice.

"I'll go, it's a whale! It's a whale! ”

"I saw whales with my own eyes!"

"It's shocking......"

was also shocked to the point of speechlessness, as well as netizens in the live broadcast room.

"The whale's voice is so healing!"

"Sounds sad."

"I suddenly remembered a true story I had heard. In the blue sea, there is a whale named Alice. It was discovered in 1989 and began to be tracked down three years later. She emits a sound with a frequency of 52 Hz, compared to 15-25 Hz in a normal whale, and she is like a mute in the eyes of other whales, always making the wrong sound frequency, and no one of her kind can understand her. She has been lonely all her life, has no friends, and has only her own joys and sorrows. ”

"I'd rather hope that it's just a misunderstanding, that humans don't know enough about the one-sided understanding of the way whales communicate, and that I don't want to see a whale spend its entire life alone in the vast sea, never getting a response, never finding something to rely on."

In the sea, whales still sing songs that humans can't understand. or ethereal, or mournful, or low, or sharp.

I don't know how human beings are viewed in its world.

But at least it believes that humans are intelligent and trusting, and otherwise there would be all sorts of stories about whales asking for help from the people on the fishing boat to help clean up the barnacles that are overgrown on its body.

I only hope that we will not live up to their trust, respect each other, respect nature, live together under this blue sky, and explore more beautiful lives together.