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

Chapter 651 Little dugong drinks grandma~ Mama's embrace is the warmest!

At this moment, the marine creature recorded by the aerial drone has a spindle shape, like a small whale.

Under normal circumstances, the body length of dugongs is about 2-4 meters, and their weight can reach about 800 catties. Because of their rough skin and thick flesh and a large amount of fat stored, they can maintain their body temperature in seawater.

Like all mammals, their bodies have a constant temperature, so a huge amount of fat accumulation can keep them at a constant temperature under the premise of large changes in ocean temperature.

In appearance, the dugong's hind limbs have been degenerated, but it retains a degenerated pelvis and a flat tail like a shovel.

Lin Yang then told the audience in the live broadcast room: "From the perspective of the distribution of this species, there will be dugongs in the warmer waters of the Atlantic Ocean, as well as shallow seas and estuaries."

"We are lucky to be able to find this kind of ocean 'mermaid' during our voyage to the Americas and through the Atlantic Ocean."

After all, the audience has become accustomed to luck.

From the way they walked, Lin Yang's luck is self-evident. The weird creatures along the way are not something ordinary people can encounter.

Not to mention that sand sculpture netizens in other inland areas rarely come into contact with the ocean. Even crew members who sail at sea all year round rarely find rare creatures.

However, during Lin Yang's ocean journey, the rare creatures he has discovered so far cannot be counted on his hands.
As soon as Lin Yang finished speaking, Yue'er looked at him eagerly, and then the girl said: "Brother Yang has said so much, but you still haven't told us why dugongs and manatees are called mermaids?"

Lin Yang cleared his throat, and continued, "The reason why dugongs are called mermaids is related to what western navigators saw and heard after they started the age of great voyages."

"On the one hand, it stems from the yearning for the virtual image of 'mermaid' in the early Western world."

"On the other hand, it is a beautiful misunderstanding due to the illusion formed in the vision"

Although Lin Yang's few words, it can be regarded as the reason why the dugong was mistaken for a mermaid.

However, the audience still cannot understand.

From the appearance point of view, this chubby manatee-like dugong is very different from a mermaid!
"What kind of eyes are there to mistake a dugong for a mermaid?"

"I think that the sailor who nicknamed the dugong 'Ocean Mermaid' must have been highly myopic. At that time, the technology of wearing glasses should have been relatively developed. How could there be such a beautiful misunderstanding?"

"Although they look quite different from mermaids, this chubby, chubby shape is still very cute!"

"Hey! Have you noticed that there seems to be a little dugong on its belly!"

Facing the doubts of the audience.

Lin Yang continued: "The reason why dugongs are mistaken for mermaids is mainly due to their living habits."

Dugong-like creatures are basically vegetarian marine animals.

Most of them live on seaweed in the ocean, and in the age of great voyages, there is no relatively high-precision observation equipment.

Often many sea conditions and marine life are witnessed by the crew.

Dugongs basically feed on plants such as seaweed, and the baby dugongs born are not able to feed underwater because of poor water quality, so there will be misunderstandings that dugongs are mistaken for mermaids.

Speaking of which.

Whether it was Yue'er, or the tens of millions of viewers in the live broadcast room, they still looked confused.

"Brother Yang, you've said so much, but I still can't think of the connection between dugongs and mermaids."

At this moment.

From the bird's-eye view of the drone that was released by Yue'er before, it can clearly record the female dugong with a body length of more than three meters.

It is holding a baby in its arms.

After Lin Yang's previous explanation, everyone can roughly guess that the baby dugong is now 'eating' in the arms of its mother.

Yue'er still couldn't help complaining: "Brother Yang, their habits of eating seaweed and feeding babies, will they be considered mermaids? What's the connection?"

However, what thousands of sand sculpture netizens did not expect is that.

What Lin Yang said next made people laugh and cry!
He cleared his throat and said, "Because dugongs eat seaweed and other marine plants, their big heads often put seaweed on their heads accidentally."

"On the other hand, because dugong babies are prevented from drowning, they can only put their newborn cubs in their arms and float on the sea for feeding."

"Under relatively low visibility conditions, it wears long hair and holds a baby to feed on the sea surface. It is similar to a human-shaped marine creature, so the term 'mermaid' comes into being."

At this moment.

Tens of millions of viewers were enlightened!

It turns out that what Lin Yang said before was just a foreshadowing for the connection of these clues in the future.

Hearing this, Yue'er couldn't help but burst out laughing.

Not only this girl, but also the sand sculpture netizens in the live broadcast room can make up such a picture in their brains.

However, this picture is too beautiful, they dare not imagine
"Oh my god! If it wasn't from the anchor, I really thought it was a story!"

"Thinking about it now, it's really like that. There are long-haired seaweeds on the head, and the baby is being fed in the arms, and it also has a big fish-like tail!"

"Hundreds of years ago, on the premise that human beings were certain that there were mermaids in the ocean, if I had witnessed this scene with my own eyes, I would definitely show it off to other companions. I have seen mermaids with my own eyes!"

After Lin Yang's explanation.

You can also understand why people would give dugongs the title of 'mermaid' after one pass to ten, ten to one hundred.

It turned out that it was due to a beautiful misunderstanding.

However, just when people thought it was a beautiful misunderstanding.

Lin Yang changed the subject, and continued, "When it comes to dugongs being considered mermaids, we have to mention that Columbus was also an avid mermaid lover during the time of the Great Voyage."

"It is also because of the first sighting of the dugong 'mermaid' appearing in the ocean, the existence of mermaids in the ocean naturally reached the ears of Columbus."

"He imagined in his mind that it was the most beautiful creature in the world! Then, he named this animal after his lover 'Anna', and even asked sailors in the ocean. If he finds a mermaid again, he must catch one and bring it back Give it to him!"

"In the end, the oceangoing crew lived up to expectations and brought back a mermaid for Columbus."

In the live broadcast room, almost tens of millions of viewers were very curious. How would Columbus react when he saw that the dugong was a mermaid?
Lin Yang glanced at the camera, and then said with a smile: "It's just that after the dugong was brought back, the image of the mermaid in Columbus's mind was completely overturned."

"He was so disappointed that he finally made a mermaid dugong named after his lover Anna for dinner"

If the former ocean-going sailors mistakenly thought dugongs were mermaids floating on the ocean with disheveled hair and feeding babies, this in itself is a ridiculous thing.

Then, the story about the relationship between Columbus and the mermaid that Lin Yang narrated afterwards made people a little surprised!

but.

He went on to add: "Of course, this is just an oral story, and there is no history to verify it."

"Maybe it's just rumors and fabrications in the market. I prefer to believe that it is a false story rather than a real thing. Just listen to it for fun and don't have to take it seriously."

Yue'er took the words and said: "That's true! If such a thing really happened, we have to mourn for the dugong. It looks like this, but it has to be considered a mermaid by humans. It is not beautiful enough, and it has to be eaten. , is simply too pitiful!"

In the live broadcast room, the audience also felt the same way.

"Hahaha!! The dugong is so miserable!"

"Dugong: Columbus NMLGB blah blah!"

"Fortunately, the misunderstanding has been cleared up now, and this relatively rare marine creature is now considered an animal protected by the IUCN Red List. It is under special care in many countries, so don't worry about being eaten!"

And this moment.

From the drone's bird's-eye view, the drone gradually approaching the dugong seems to have been discovered by the dugong.

That chubby dugong, hugging his little baby, sneaked into the water.

It dives very slowly, and its posture is like a dolphin, and it will swing its tail.

Nowadays, the technology in the field of marine biological research is very mature. Although dugongs are relatively rare, they have not never been seen.

According to the research of marine biologists, it, like all marine mammals, needs to breathe with its lungs.

Therefore, during the diving process, they need to surface from time to time to take a breath, and when they float up, they will stick their heads out of the water.

In addition, through the radio equipment of the drone, the water friends in the live broadcast room even heard a sharp cry.

"Is this the mermaid's song? It just sounds a little harsh!"

"Are they using their voices to ward off possible danger? Does it see the drone as a seabird about to attack itself?"

"They are so timid, and they look so cute! I have heard a legend before that the singing of mermaids in the ocean will sink human ships to the bottom of the sea!"

"Brother in front, you can eat indiscriminately, but you can't talk indiscriminately. Do you want to see the anchor's yacht sink? qaq"

Lin Yang smiled and said to the audience in the live broadcast room: "The singing of dugongs will not sink human ships to the bottom of the sea, but it will attract sharks, killer whales, and even near the mouth of the river. Crocodile."

"These creatures are natural enemies of dugongs, so under normal circumstances, dugongs hardly make too high-pitched calls."

What all the audience in the live broadcast room didn't imagine was.

While Lin Yang was speaking, the drone's bird's-eye view shot once again recorded an unexpected scene!
In the picture of the live broadcast room, the dugong in the distance is watched by thousands of water friends, at least the physical characteristics become more and more clear because of the close-up of the camera.

Prior to this, the water friends in the live broadcast room could only observe the approximate size of the dugong through the bird's-eye view of the drone.

Except that it looks like a huge seal, other details are not clear at all.

When the yacht approached slowly, the main view camera installed in the cockpit clearly recorded the more detailed appearance of the dugong.

However, perhaps for the tens of thousands of sand sculpture netizens in the live broadcast room, there is nothing wrong with the images recorded by Lin Yang at the moment.

but!

For scientific research experts in the field of marine biology, they are deeply puzzled by this scene!
The reason is very simple, although the yacht has gradually approached the dugong and the baby dugong in its arms.

However, Ru Liang, who had just dived into the sea because of being frightened by the drone, surfaced again!

And, after witnessing the approach of the huge yacht, it did not run away again.

This point alone is enough to subvert the cognition of marine biologists, even if this is just a very common scene in the eyes of ordinary audiences.

at the same time.

The Institute of Marine Biology of the Long Guohua Academy of Sciences released a message through the official platform:
[Through the video data of dugong 'Ocean Mermaid' taken by Comrade Lin Yang in the Atlantic Ocean, my research institute discovered an unusual phenomenon. 】

[Previously, the results of global observations of such creatures have shown that dugongs are not close to humans. In most cases, when they find strange movements around them, they will choose to escape the fastest. Very few people will choose to remain indifferent, but now the dugong photographed by Comrade Lin Yang seems to be approaching the yacht. This phenomenon is very abnormal! 】

It is precisely because of this information from the Institute of Marine Biology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences that some viewers who did not know much about the living habits of dugongs before were enlightened.

That said, this is a very timid animal!

Moreover, in previous scientific observations, there has never been such a phenomenon of actively approaching human ships.

It is precisely because of this that the number of bullet screens in the live broadcast room with tens of millions of viewers seems to have increased a lot!

"I understand! That is to say, under normal circumstances, even if the dugong didn't run away because of the approach of the drone and the yacht, it is absolutely impossible to approach it on its own initiative?"

"Don't ask, the question is that the anchor has its own animal affinity buff. (manual dog head)"

"Although the appearance of dugongs looks very different from mermaids, if you look closely, you will find that they are very cute!"

"Especially the little dugong eating grandma in the arms of its mother dugong, it's so cute, just like a baby hippopotamus."

"Pineapple Saidong: Little Hippo? I feel offended to qaq."

In fact.

Although the water friends in the live broadcast room were making jokes, everyone didn't know that Lin Yang originally had the affinity buff of the system.

Before that, it was precisely because of the high bonus of this system that he was able to shoot many difficult-to-shoot ocean scenes.

At this moment, Lin Yang was in the camera of the live broadcast room.

The dugong mother and son were swimming on the Atlantic Ocean, slowly approaching Lin Yang's yacht.

After the simple science popularization by the Institute of Marine Biology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, millions of water lovers are delighted to hear this scene!
At this moment, Yue'er, who was standing beside Lin Yang, smiled and said to the audience in the live broadcast room: "According to what I know about Little Brother Yang, if the dugong mother and son continue to approach our yacht, Little Brother Yang will order to go into the water." Interact with them."

There is no doubt that what Yueer said was what the audience in the live broadcast room wanted to see.

The next moment, Lin Yang was about to leave the cockpit of the yacht.

Anyway, it's been almost a year since Lin Yang's live broadcast, and there are still many water friends who can be regarded as die-hard fans in the true sense.

Therefore, what Lin Yang needs to do after leaving the cockpit of the yacht is actually a question that does not need to be too entangled for most netizens.

Since, the dugong, a marine creature identified by marine biologists as a timid creature, approached a human yacht for the first time.

No matter how you say it, you can't let go of this hard-won opportunity for close interaction.

Therefore, at present, Lin Yang should have no other possibility except to go to the lower cabin to equip diving equipment.

"So, according to what I know about the anchor, he shouldn't miss the great opportunity to dive and shoot dugongs!"

"This kind of mermaid dugong who is not afraid of life can be said to be rare, and you must interact with it at a close distance!"

"Good guy, it's not afraid of the anchor's big yacht at all. This is something I didn't expect qaq."

"It looks chubby, so cute, I want to touch it"

obviously.

The tens of millions of water friends in the live broadcast room also really want to see what kind of state the dugong is from a close-up perspective.

Yue'er looked at the chubby guy in the camera very confidently, regardless of whether it had anything to do with the mermaid.

But aside from the association of mermaids, the dugong still looks naive and very cute.

She murmured softly, "They shouldn't be aggressive, right? In other words, cowardly dugongs shouldn't take the initiative to attack humans except for running away?"

The girl just finished speaking.

Lin Yang's voice came from outside the cockpit.

"Theoretically, they should not hurt people, after all, they are vegetarian creatures."

Under normal circumstances, carnivorous biological attacks are bound to be much stronger than vegetarian ones.

Lin Yang went on to say: "However, there is one thing that is very strange. The research data centers of major marine biological research institutes have shown that the active range of this dugong is generally on the seabed that is relatively close to the coastline, and it appears in this remote village. The open sea area where there are no shops behind is still a bit puzzling."

Yue'er took the conversation and said, "Is it because the seabed near the coast is relatively shallow, so it's easy to get seaweed plants on the seabed?"

Logically speaking, this girl's analysis is not wrong at all.

This is also true, creatures such as dugongs, generally only ingest plants that grow on the bottom of the sea floor.

Their food sources mainly come from the roots, stems and leaves of various marine plants, and they also eat some seaweed.
In other words, in most cases, dugongs will eat the whole plant when they find a seaweed, and a relatively large dugong consumes about 45 kilograms of food per day!

Lin Yang's short science popularization can be regarded as stunned the water friends in the live broadcast room.

"Oh my god! 45kg of seaweed? Eat the same weight of food as me every day?"

"The lady in front is only 90 pounds? I'm so envious qaq."

"Fortunately, they only eat seaweed and don't eat meat. Don't worry about being bitten by a dugong when the anchor dives next."

"To be fair, I never knew what the marine creature known as a mermaid looks like. I never thought it would be a gigantic fool."

Whoa!
Just when tens of thousands of sand sculpture netizens were discussing.

Lin Yang jumped up and swam towards the slowly approaching dugong from the clear water deck of the yacht.

In an instant, tens of millions of water friends in the live broadcast room collectively turned into curious babies, planning to watch this mermaid dugong aggressively.

Whoa!
Under the attention of tens of thousands of people in the live broadcast room, Lin Yang dived into the sea after equipping the diving equipment.

Sporadic splashes of water blocked his first-person view of the camera lens.

The momentary blurry picture did not extinguish the enthusiasm of sand sculpture netizens in the live broadcast room.

In the picture, the simple-minded dugong was not frightened by Lin Yang's entry into the water. He didn't even dodge or run away, but approached slowly unexpectedly.

Perhaps, for ordinary audiences, this scene is simply adorable.

However, experts from major marine biological research institutes who followed Lin Yang's live broadcast room were dumbfounded by this scene!

After all, in the previous scientific observation of this kind of marine life, such a phenomenon has never happened before.

At least in the global database of marine life, although dugongs move very slowly, they often respond relatively quickly after encountering uncertain factors.

Maybe it's because they understand the principle that stupid birds fly first, and it's reasonable for a dugong, whose moving speed is only 2-5 nautical miles, to be naturally timid.

However, the images seen in Lin Yang's live broadcast room run counter to the research results of marine biologists!

"My God! I have learned about this kind of marine life before, not to mention that it appears in seas far away from the coastline, it is already puzzling enough. I didn't expect it to not run away when it met the anchor. .”

"Wouldn't it be better this way, we can follow the anchor's lens and watch this cute sea creature at a closer distance!"

"Any aquarium is looking at the fun. If you want to observe wild marine life up close, you have to watch Linshen's live broadcast room qaq."

"Good guy! Could it be a vegetarian animal? And it wants to eat the anchor? (Manual dog head)"

Indeed, if you follow the logic of sand sculpture netizens.

If the giant dugong photographed by Lin Yang had carnivorous habits, it might not be impossible for it to happen.

The reason is very simple. After all, according to conventional knowledge, dugongs live in shallow sea areas such as the seabed.

Although the high seas of the Atlantic Ocean where Lin Yang is currently located can be regarded as relatively warm seas.

It's just that, in terms of probability, it's already very puzzling.

(End of this chapter)