Golden Fishing Village

"What should we do?" Several kind girls were so anxious that they shed tears.

But the whale was too big. When it moved forward in the shallow sea, it was like a giant ship crushing. The tourists were anxious but there was nothing they could do. They couldn't jump into the sea to stop the whale, right? That would probably not only fail to save the whale, but also die!

But someone still did it. It was only early spring, and the sea water was still cold. A figure jumped into the water and quickly waved his arms to swim towards the whale.

Everyone's eyes gathered over, and someone asked: "Who is this? Too impulsive!"

The fishermen on the boat shuddered: "Fuck, village chief!"

Ao Muyang jumped into the water and swam towards the whale. Seeing this scene, many fishermen scratched their heads. The village chief took the lead in going into the water. Should they follow him? But even if they went into the water, what could they do?

So everyone looked at each other, and their faces were all blank after staring at each other.

Fortunately, someone on the beach shouted during the chaos: "Don't act rashly, row your boat out of this sea area quickly, the village chief said he can handle it himself!"

The fishermen breathed a sigh of relief when they heard this, and they no longer had to be in a dilemma, but then their hearts were lifted again: What should we do? Who can push such a big whale?

Ao Muyang didn't think about pushing the whale. After swimming over, he first fed the whale some gold drops, then patted the whale's head and swam in the opposite direction, releasing gold drops while swimming.

The temptation of gold drops to fish is unparalleled. The big whale hesitated for a while, and finally turned slowly and swam towards the ocean.

Seeing this, the tourists and villagers on the beach cheered, but Ao Muyang was still nervous: the sea area where the whale was located was already very shallow, too shallow for its size. When it turned around, its abdomen was close to the seabed. With his outstanding eyesight, it was not difficult to see the red color under the whale's abdomen, which was caused by a lot of bleeding due to the rubbing of the abdomen.

Fortunately, the whale stopped in time. If it had moved forward more than ten meters, it would really be Dorgon's son Dorgon's younger brother, Dorgon Wanduzi.

Ao Muyang swam into the sea with the big whale. The whale's flippers swam slowly, allowing him to see the large white horizontal band in the center of the flippers.

This horizontal band proved the identity of the whale. It was a minke whale.

Minke whales are naturally baleen whales. They do not eat big fish and shrimps, but feed on small crustaceans and small fish. They eat by opening their mouths wide to swallow a large amount of seawater at a time, then expanding the laryngeal ventral fold to increase the volume of the mouth, and then closing their mouths to spit out the water. Finally, the food contained in the seawater will be blocked by the whale baleen and remain in the mouth.

All baleen whales are harmless to humans, so Ao Muyang can swim freely. As long as he is not crushed by this whale, he will not be hurt.

He swam to another baleen whale, and the two minke whales met. At this time, he released a little gold drop to attract the whale to turn around.

So, the two big whales completed the turn.

The last minke whale calf did not need to be lured by the gold drop. It stared at the two elders who led the team with its eyes stupidly. Seeing that they turned around, it also turned around and swam.

The crisis was temporarily resolved, but it was only temporary. These whales might still swim to the beach. Ao Muyang's move was only a temporary solution.

The three minke whales returned to the safe sea area, and he called the feeding boats in the village to feed them and stabilize them with food first.

Under natural conditions, minke whales eat small fish and shrimps. There are not so many small fish and shrimps in the village, so they usually prepare big fish and meat. After all, whether it is killer whales, dolphins, porpoises or sperm whales, they are all large carnivores.

However, minke whales also eat meat, just chop the big fish and meat into small pieces of meat and small fish slices.

Ao Muyang passed the order down, and the idle fishing houses were busy. The meat grinders and meat cutters were started together, and hundreds of kilograms of pork and freshwater fish caught from the lake were crushed.

Someone drove a boat to pick him up, and as soon as he got on the boat, the tourists on the boat surrounded him as if they had seen a hero: "Awesome!" "The village chief is really awesome!" "No wonder he is the village chief at such a young age, I am impressed!"

First they praised him, then they asked: "How did you bring them back, village chief?"

Ao Muyang smiled and nodded in response to the compliments, and lightly deflected the questions: "This is a minke whale, which is more friendly to external signals. In addition, they live in small groups and recognize the route led by the head fish, so I slapped the head fish's forehead or nasal cavity with my palm and fist , give it a friendly sound wave response, and take it to change its route. Oh, you know? Baleen whales have poor eyesight, and their actions basically rely on hearing and feeling. The air sacs in their noses and throats can emit a special high-frequency sound wave, and they are very sensitive to sound waves. "

The tourists suddenly realized: "So that's it." "Really brave and resourceful."

Some tourists hesitated for a while and asked in a low voice embarrassedly: "What is it? Why don't I understand?"

For this kind of question, Lao Ao would not answer, because he himself did not understand what he was saying.

However, what he said just now was not all nonsense. It is true that there are air sacs in the nose and throat of baleen whales that can emit high-frequency sound waves. Then he joined Su Penghui and Li Ji, and when they were studying the reasons for the suicide of the three minke whales together, the two elders mentioned this matter:

“Minke whales rely on the high-frequency sound waves emitted by their air sacs to capture food and identify directions using echolocation. When they swim to flat, sandy, muddy shallow waters, low-frequency sound waves are reflected back, making them unable to navigate the environment. Make correct judgments and become disoriented, especially when their bodies hit the bottom of the sea, which will cause them to panic and rush forward subconsciously, eventually rushing to the coast.”

Su Penghui said: "I remember about forty years ago, when I first started working, something like this happened in Daya Bay. A sperm whale swam from the far sea to the near sea. Some fishermen saw it turning uneasily in the shallow sea for a few times. It eventually washed up on the beach. A colleague of mine participated in the autopsy of the sperm whale and found that it did not suffer from any disease. It was unfortunate because it strayed into the offshore to hunt and lost its direction.”

This seemed to be the real answer, but Ao Muyang suddenly thought of something that happened on the beach not long ago: "There used to be yellow crucian carp, sea bass and the like jumping onto the beach. Their behavior was similar to today's whale suicide." Right? At least there is some connection, right?"

After hearing this, Su Penghui and Li Ji looked at each other, and then their faces showed worry.

Ao Muyang felt nervous and asked, "What's wrong?"

Li Ji frowned and said: "If these two things are to be connected, it may be that the brains or middle ear canals of offshore fish have been damaged, causing errors in their judgment of position, so we have to find the connection between the two. , This is probably related to human activities.”