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Chapter 709 The snowy owl flaps its wings to hunt, be fast and ruthless!

As Lin Yang and Yue'er continued to approach, the camera in the live broadcast room recorded more clearly the appearance of the spotted snowy owl.

Its cute appearance with its head tilted, instantly attracted countless fans in the live broadcast room.

However, Lin Yang said at this time: "Although the snowy owl looks harmless to humans and animals, and its two big eyes are cute like cats, but in the wild, their fighting power is still very amazing. "

In addition to the small animals he mentioned before, the snowy owl will also eat fish and even carrion found by the sea.

As long as they can survive, wild animals are generally not picky eaters, and snowy owls also have amazing tricks to win against snow rabbits that travel very fast.

When hunting snow hares, they will clung to the rabbit's back and beat until the prey is exhausted.

They will use their inconspicuous beaks to break the necks of their prey.

And like the leopard, the snowy owl will secretly hide the prey in a nearby hidden position when there is some food left.

It may be found in the crevices of rocks, but on the branches can be very effective in preserving food that has not been eaten.

In addition, they live in the colder regions of the north, even if the remaining food is stored on the branches, they can make good use of the natural environment as a large refrigerator to preserve food.

Yue'er asked Lin Yang suspiciously: "So, the snowy owl should be very lethal to the lemmings living in Iceland."

After all, before that, Lin Yang popularized science to the audience in the live broadcast room about the strong reproductive ability of lemmings and the main food source of arctic foxes.

The lemming, an animal at the bottom of the food chain in Iceland, which is relatively scarce in biodiversity, will obviously also become a food source for these raptor snowy owls that live above the Icelandic sky.

Lin Yang nodded slightly and said, "If the snowy owl does not rot or lie down, it can catch 7-12 small lemmings every day."

"That is to say, one snowy owl can kill nearly 1700 lemmings every year."

For water friends who have just entered the live broadcast room, the number of more than 1000 lemmings that will be consumed by snowy owls is somewhat huge.

But if you know the strong reproductive ability of lemmings, the number of more than 1000 lemmings has little impact on the overall population of humans and mice.

The natural world is so wonderful. The balance of any species seems to form a perfect closure in the ecological circle. Species with strong lethality often produce only 1-2 cubs per breeding.Although they occupy a relatively high position in the ecological chain in nature, due to the relative scarcity of the number, they cannot really purchase every corner of the wild environment.

And those small animals at the bottom of the food chain tend to evolve relatively strong reproductive ability in natural evolution.

Although they are weak enough and relatively weak in combat effectiveness, they can still occupy some places in the food chain by virtue of their strong reproductive ability.

It is strong and let him be strong, if I can give birth, I will be crazy!
While Lin Yang and Yue'er were chatting with the water friends in the live broadcast room, the snowy owl slowly approached.

Coupled with Lin Yang's slow movement, the two have already looked at each other in blank dismay.

In the live broadcast, the snowy owl's face almost reached the camera, and Lin Yang gently rubbed the snowy owl's head at this moment.

It made a cooing sound, but did not intend to attack Lin Yang.

After all, although the snowy owl looks naive, it is not a fool with low intelligence.

It naturally knew that if it attacked this terrifying upright ape, it might lose its hair and eat it as a roast chicken.

Therefore, Snowy Owl's blinking eyes and Lin Yangyue'er got along peacefully, and even posed a few poses in front of the camera very cooperatively.

Lin Yang went on to say: "Snowy owls have strong eyesight because of the relatively abundant light-gathering cells, and their hearing is also very powerful."

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He pointed the camera at the snowy owl, and gave a close-up of the ear that looked like a hidden master.

As Lin Yang said, snowy owls have very keen sense of hearing. Even in relatively complex jungles, or under thick ice and snow covered by tundra, they can accurately locate their prey through the source of the sound direction and distance, and then hunt.

When Lin Yang photographed the snowy owl's ears, he said to the water friends: "Because the feathers around the eye sockets are vertical and form a ring shape, the feathers of these sleds can just act as a tool for sound wave reflection."

"These upright feathers can reflect sound waves to the ears directly behind the eyes, even on the tundra covered with ice and snow where it is difficult to detect the source of prey, and even in the dark night where you can't see your fingers, remove the super-powerful light-gathering cells piled up. In addition to sight, they can also use their ears to locate prey with their eyes closed."

"Good guy, it turns out that this cute-looking snowy owl has so many amazing abilities, no matter in terms of the structure of eyes or ears, it is more than a lot stronger than humans!"

"Snowy Owl: You are the cute, stupid bird, and I am a bird of prey! Please show some respect qaq."

"It would be great if the anchor could capture the snowy owl's predation."

Lin Yang glanced at the messages of the water friends in the live broadcast room, but he hadn't waited for him to speak.

The snowy owl that had been standing quietly beside Lin Yang before suddenly flapped its wings and flew high!
Its piercing eyes were fixed on the snow covered under the tundra. It seemed that during the process of Lin Yang and Yue'er photographing the snowy owl, this guy had already passed his excellent hearing and found prey in the surrounding area.

In fact, the number of snowy owl species fluctuates wildly.

In the case of abundant food, according to the statistics of the related bird habitat research office in Iceland, the total number of them can reach about 2.

But if the lemmings' migrations were different from the owl's habitat, their numbers would drop to as few as 2000 individuals.

When food sources are distributed in the coming year, the numbers will skyrocket!

Therefore, the overall number of wild snowy owls has always been a headache for local animal protection organizations.

The water friends were quite surprised by the pictures captured in the camera.

"Has the snowy owl found its prey?"

"It flew up so suddenly it scared me!"

"Looking at it like that, it should have found its prey, otherwise it would be impossible to be so excited all of a sudden."

"Is there a possibility? This snowy owl has taken the host and Miss Yue'er as prey, and is ready to attack?"

"Brother in front, look at what you said, if Snowy Owl could treat the anchor and Miss Yue'er as prey, it would have done it long ago, and why did it need to be slapped on the head for no reason?"

In the screen of the live broadcast room.

After the snowy owl officially took off, Lin Yang was also very keen to find the little lemmings on the tundra.

Because of the large number of lemmings, they can often be seen on the tundra.

It is precisely because of the large number of groups that lemmings have always been like little experts in provoking natural enemies.

In the process of filming arctic foxes hunting lemmings, water friends have already seen it.

Yue'er asked very curiously: "Brother Yang, is this snowy owl going to attack lemmings next?"

Lin Yang nodded slightly, and then said: "This is likely to be the case. Didn't many people wonder whether the ingredients of snowy owls and raptors were pure or not? You should be able to see the whole process of their hunting later."

Unlike what Lin Yang photographed before, the arctic fox was a bit foolish in catching lemmings. After fluttering its wings, the snowy owl swooped down mercilessly after pinpointing its prey with its super vision and hearing. .

In the snow-covered tundra, the hunting process of the snowy owl is as fast as lightning. There is no funny appearance of the arctic fox blasting into the snowdrift like a missile. The whole process can be said to be fast, accurate and ruthless.

In the footage recorded in Lin Yang's live broadcast room, the snowy owl fluttered its wings and swooped down like a fighter jet. After accurately locating the location of the lemming, he did not give the lemming the time and opportunity to escape. The sharp claws quickly caught the lemming,

Its resolute gaze seems to be full of confidence in hunting. The lemming, which was discovered because it was exposed to death, might still want to play a game of hide-and-seek with the snowy owl like the arctic fox, but the game is still If it doesn't start, it's over.

This scene surprised the water friends in the live broadcast room!
"My God, I doubted that the snowy owl was a bird of prey before, but now it seems that they are indeed worthy of the title of a bird of prey. The whole process was fast, accurate, and ruthless, and there was no muddy water at all. The lemmings did not escape at all. time."

"Although they look cute, they are not so cute when it comes to their prey."

It was previously suspected that they had the title of raptor, but water friends who did not deserve the name.

With victory in hand, the lemming that the snowy owl had abandoned was placed on the snow-covered tundra.

To the surprise of the water lovers, the way the snowy owl eats is beyond everyone's expectations.

In the conventional cognition of ordinary viewers, the snowy owl is a kind of raptor, and many birds usually use sharp claws or beaks to tear the prey into small pieces after preying on their prey, and then slowly swallow them.

But the snowy owl in the camera, after catching a little lemming, didn't tear it up, but swallowed the prey whole.

Not to mention the audience in the live broadcast room, even Yue'er who was standing beside Lin Yang was dumbfounded by this scene!

"Brother Yang, aren't they afraid of getting stuck in their throats when they swallow food like this?"

Yue'er blinked her eyes and asked.

Lin Yang shook his head, and patiently told the audience in the live broadcast room: "Although the snowy owl can swallow the whole prey, it is only limited to small creatures like lemmings. If it catches a relatively large prey, They'll still tear it up."

"The whole swallowed lemming will be digested within a day in the snowy owl, and the indigestible components, such as bones and other hard parts, will be spit out by the snowy owl at a specific place."

Wild bird experts usually distinguish snowy owls through the bones they spit out.

In nature, many animals have unique traits, including rumination and other ways of consuming food.

But the way of swallowing the prey whole and then spitting out the indigestible bones is the first time water friends have seen it.

"Can I understand that after swallowing a fish whole, spit out the indigestible fishbone?"

"Although your analysis of the previous brother is somewhat reasonable, fishbone should be regarded as a kind that can be digested. You have to ask the school to know the answer to this question."

"Anchor, have you forgotten our question just now? Since the snowy owl is like reducing dimensionality and attacking the small animals living on the ice sheet, they should also have natural enemies, right?"

Lin Yang naturally also noticed the curious question of Shui.

He nodded slightly and said with a smile: "Although snowy owls also have natural enemies, they have relatively few natural enemies in the northern region, and don't look at the snowy owl that was so generous that we touched its head just now, but in the wild environment, adult The snowy owls are like sentinels, maintaining an absolute high level of vigilance at all times, and they will be ready to defend against any possible threats."

Although the relatively large golden eagles, peregrine falcons, and sea dongqings are natural enemies of the snowy owl, if they try to threaten their eggs or newly hatched chicks during the breeding period of the snowy owl, the snowy owl Will also fight against them without mercy.

After hearing this, Yue'er nodded half-understanding.

She then said: "I understand, the love of father and mother in the animal world, this should be a very perfect interpretation."

"Although they look cute, in order to protect their offspring, even relatively powerful natural enemies, they will unceremoniously compete."

This is true.

The father and mother who are responsible for breeding in nature are doing their best to maintain the continuation of the species.

Even in the face of strong enemies, whenever threatening cubs behave, they will not measure the difference in combat power, nor will they consider the probability of defeating natural enemies.

As long as you touch my baby, I will fight you hard!

After listening to Lin Yang's science popularization, the water friends in the live broadcast room were full of emotion.

"I didn't realize that this cute snowy owl is so protective of the calf!"

"Many animals in nature have such a spirit. If their babies are harmed because they are afraid of natural enemies, then what is the significance of wild animals' survival and reproduction?"

"I remember that there seems to be a wild animal that throws a child into the air when it is in danger, attracting the attention of predators, and then yo-yos itself."

"What kind of animal is this?"

On the screen of the live broadcast room.

The snowy owl that successfully hunted lemmings swallowed them whole.

After having a full meal, it seemed to be in a better mood, but it didn't turn back to Lin Yang and Yue'er again.

Although Lin Yang has a systematic affinity buff, it doesn't make all the wild animals feel as close to him as if they met their relatives.

Lin Yang stood up and pointed the camera in the live broadcast room at the snowy owl that was gradually soaring in the sky and leaving slowly.

"Next, our Voyager will head south from the northernmost tip of Highway No. [-] in Iceland, and then make a big circle and return to the port of call."

Yue'er smiled and echoed, "Maybe we can meet migrating reindeer on the way south. That baby deer is so cute. It's a pity that I didn't take a photo with it."

Lin Yang replied with a smile: "If there is a chance, I will let you take a photo with the baby reindeer."

In the coastal area of ​​northern Iceland where the sun was setting, Lin Yang and Yue Er returned to the Traveler RV with Ao Ao and Ya Ya.

At this moment, the injured little arctic fox in the car was lying on the car window, looking at the ice and snow outside, and Lin Yang and Yue'er who had been in close contact with the reindeer and snowy owl before.

The little guy's eyes are full of envy, but his leg is injured, so he can't go out for a walk together, which is a bit regrettable.

But after bidding farewell to the migrating reindeer and the snowy owl that foraged successfully, Lin Yang and Yueer returned to the docking point of the RV, and their upcoming journey will continue to travel around Iceland along the Icelandic Highway [-] .

(End of this chapter)