I was blown away by the longing for the live broadcast of the sea

Chapter 417 When a Whale Falls, Everything Comes to Life, Nature is Amazing!
The huge blue whale sank slowly, bringing shocking pressure and impact to her and the audience in the live broadcast room.

Occasionally, there are fish clustered around the carcass of a giant whale.

They are not 'escorting', but absorbing nutrients from the blue whale's body.

At the same time, this is also the first stage of whale fall!
Yueer went on to say: "The four stages of Whalefall are the 'mobile scavenger stage', the 'opportunist stage', the 'chemoautotrophic stage' and the 'reef stage'.

Her series of answers made the audience a little confused.

Maybe it's because she's been with Lin Yang for a long time, and now she speaks more concisely.

"In the first process of the giant whale falling, many small marine organisms will eat their carcasses, and the blue whale, which weighs more than [-] tons, will become a food source for those small marine organisms for a long time to come."

In addition to the parasitism of some crustaceans.

Fish such as hagfish and sharks also participate in this first whale fall, and these mobile scavengers feed on the soft tissue of the carcass.

The whole stage will last from 4 months to 2 years.

When more than 90% of the meat and soft tissues of the giant whale's body are decomposed, the first stage of the whale's fall is officially over.

In the live broadcast room, the viewers who had never known Whale Fall were shocked by Yue'er's words.

"Over a hundred tons? Isn't the blue whale too big?"

"I think that humans have given deeper meaning to whale fall. Its essence is actually the process of being eaten after death."

"Cruel is not good, but we humans seem to be unable to do anything other than watch quietly."

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Although the netizens in the live broadcast room usually like to run the train with their mouths full of mouths, but at this time they have some comments, and Yueer also very much approves of them.

The process of whale fall was not beautiful, even cruel.

But in addition to understanding it as "returning the last tenderness of the sea" in an artificial way, human beings are often just bystanders in the cycle between natural ecology.

at this time.

Lin Yang, who was underwater, made an astonishing move.

With the sinking of the huge blue whale, he could no longer dive rashly.

The pressure in the deep sea was rising. Even with his physical fitness, he could continue to dive, but he chose to float up wearing a simple diving suit.

The only thing that the audience didn't expect was that Lin Yang suddenly let go of the camera equipment in his hand, allowing the camera to continue to sink with the giant whale.

During Lin Yang's ascent, the camera equipment and the whale's carcass fell at the same time.

In the live broadcast room, the audience was shocked.

Shocking the hugeness of the living giant whales, it also shocks their greatness after death!

"From this point of view, as the largest mammal in the ocean, the blue whale can be regarded as living a chic life and dying a heroic death!"

"Miss Yue'er hasn't said the remaining three stages yet."

"The giant whale sank to the bottom of the sea, and it will become a skeleton after two years."

After Yue'er saw Lin Yang floating up on the deck, she was naturally not so worried.

Seeing the doubts of the audience in the live broadcast room, she continued: "The second 'opportunist stage' of whale fall is that some small crustaceans and polychaetes will turn the bones of giant whales into their own habitats." They will not only live in the skeleton of the giant whale, but also clean up the remaining 10% of the meat and soft tissue in the first stage."

From larger fish such as sharks and hagfish to smaller sea creatures.

After the giant whale dies, it supplies an ecological food chain including 43 species of creatures!

With the end of the first and second stages of the whale fall process, the anaerobic bacteria and archaea in the ocean will continue to complete the third stage of the whale fall!

These bacteria break down lipids in whalebone to produce deep-sea hydrogen sulfide.

With the continuous advancement of the whale fall process, the objects of energy supplied by the giant whale bones have also become smaller and smaller.

And the final result of the whale fall is the final 'reef stage'!
The remaining giant whale bones cannot be completely decomposed by anaerobic bacteria, and the whale bones will eventually form minerals and turn into reefs, and these reefs will last forever on the seabed.

The final ownership of Whalefall may be to witness the vicissitudes of life
Yue'er scratched and said: "Maybe what I said is not comprehensive, it's because Xiao Yang didn't teach enough, anyway, that's roughly what I meant."

Although the audience in the live broadcast room could not witness the four stages of the whale fall.

But with Yue'er's explanation, they can imagine the spectacular scenes at each stage.

at this time.

Lin Yang has already floated up and returned to the yacht's hydrophilic deck.

The audience in the live broadcast room joked:
"Although the anchor's diving skills are good, it is quite expensive for the camera."

"That's not to allow us to watch the first stage of the whale fall for a while."

Lin Yang took the towel from Yue'er and wiped the wet Lulu's hair.

"Brother Yang, I briefly told the audience about the process of the whale falling, but I don't know if I made a mistake."

Yue'er looked around at Lin Yangdong, as if checking whether he was injured during the dive just now.

Lin Yang threw the towel to her, and then said simply and clearly: "It is precisely because the four stages of whale fall are very long, and the circular ecological food chain is extensive, so there is a saying that 'one whale falls, all things grow'."

Indeed, no matter how many stages there are in the whale fall, in the end there is nothing more than "one whale falls, all things live".

"In the end, the whale bone turned into a reef, and the death is so vigorous, it is indeed the best in the ocean!"

"The giant whale sank to the bottom of the sea, and the camera is probably about to stop working. What a spectacular process!"

After the underwater camera stops working.

Lin Yang said to the audience in the live broadcast room: "We will continue to sail according to the original plan, and then stop at the islands and reefs ahead to rest."

on the deck.

Aoao and Dabai, a vulture and a wolfdog, were still looking at the sinking direction of the giant whale.

Especially the little silly dog ​​wailing, the whole dog was stunned.

It was born in the tundra of the extreme north, but it has never seen such a large marine life.

In short, the little guy was shocked.

However, it didn't show the slightest timidity either. The silver-gray hairs on its body stood on end, and it still hasn't let down its guard until now.

Lin Yang froze for a moment, then glanced at Dabai next to him.

"Dabai, after all, you have seen a lot of worlds with me, are you shocked?" Lin Yang shook his head with a smile, as if talking to himself.

The audience in the live broadcast room loved it.

Especially the silly look of Aoao from time to time, even if it has the fierceness of the tundra wolf, but the Siberian husky also has the stupid attributes.

"Aww, you look like you're not afraid of anything these days, but there are times when you're stunned."

"Not to mention, looking at its ready-to-go state, it is estimated that it would dare to jump into the water to chase the blue whale that left when the anchor gave the order."

"Dabai and Aoao perfectly interpreted what it means, and my friends and I were stunned!"

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Yue'er looked at the barrage and said with a smile: "Maybe you in the live broadcast room can't really feel the shock of the 'giant phobia' intuitively, but it's normal for them on the scene to be so surprised .”

Lin Yang also rubbed the dog's head with a smile, and then said to the live broadcast room: "You know, a blue whale's heart is as big as a car, and the diameter of its arteries is at least [-] to [-] centimeters thick. "

Although the camera sunk into the bottom of the sea stopped sending back pictures.

But the audience in the live broadcast room are still full of strong curiosity about the largest marine creature known to mankind in the world.

Similarly, Lin Yang's metaphor also made the audience more intuitively imagine how big that behemoth is!

After all, what you saw through the lens screen before is not intuitive.

But when they think of the big heart of a car, they can't help but sigh, nature is really amazing
"The anchor's live broadcast room successfully cured my deep-sea phobia and giant fear. I was obviously very scared, but I couldn't help but want to watch it more."

"It is said that when a blue whale baby is born, it is bigger than an adult African elephant!"

"It must take a long time for a baby blue whale to grow to be 30 meters long?"

There is still more than an hour left before the docked uninhabited island reef.

Lin Yang simply leaned on the deck chair and chatted with the audience. Anyway, he had already mastered all the knowledge in the Encyclopedia of Marine Biology.

So talking about these things, he said that it was fine for a few days and nights.

Of course, he didn't have much time to chat, but he was just going to give a few simple replies.

"Blue whales are really big, they can grow up to more than 30 meters long, but their babies are also growing very fast, faster than you can imagine!"

He continued: "The blue whale's baby drank 7 liters of milk almost every day for 400 months after birth."

Blue whales are not fish, but mammals living in the ocean. It seems more appropriate to call them 'sea beasts'.

Therefore, it is natural for their young to drink milk.

"My God! 400 liters of milk! I can't drink that much in a year!"

"Equivalent to 800 bottles of 500ml happy fat house water, I can finish this!"

"The old man in front of me is an old man when he speaks."

"In contrast, what I'm more curious about is, won't whale babies be choked when drinking milk in the water?"

"Drinking so much milk every day, I must grow up very fast!"

Lin Yang glanced at the barrage, nodded and said, "Although baby blue whales eat a lot after birth, they grow fast, and they can gain 90 kilograms of weight every day!"

The audience in the live broadcast room were dumbfounded.

This Nima!
Drink 400 liters of milk every day and gain 180 catties of meat!
This is indeed a bit too exaggerated!

"It's really a day to grow into a big fat man!"

"What if the baby grows too fast and the mother doesn't recognize it? Hahaha!"

"The growth speed of the baby blue whale is comparable to that of bamboo in the plant kingdom!"

"Oh, I didn't expect to get so much little knowledge in a row today."

Although a long time ago, Lin Yang had encountered humpback whales more than once.

But when they encountered the blue whale of the genus Cetaceus again, what the audience saw twice was a different picture.

Previously on Butterfly Island, I was curious to watch the humpback whales on the fluorescent beach, gentle and mischievous.

But the blue whale I met just now has an additional understanding of the marine ecological cycle, as well as the phenomenon of "whale fall" that people often hear about but never really understand.

"Brother Yang, soon we will be able to dock on the uninhabited island and start cooking dinner."

Yue'er went on to say: "You can have the char fillet that Grandma Amida gave you for dinner. Brother Yang, what else do you want to eat?"

"I want to fish." Lin Yang replied.

On the day when the mammoth ivory was discovered, although many arctic charr were caught, the fishing net was cast by Yueer and Sophia.

From the beginning to the end, Lin Yang also failed to participate in fishing.

(End of this chapter)