My Deep-sea Fishery

"Who brought the dog and lost it in the Antarctic?" Xiang Yang looked confused. In a place like Antarctica, it is impossible for a creature like a wolf to appear.

There are indeed wolves in the world that can survive in extremely cold environments.

The snow wolves in our country and the blue wolves in West Siberia are all able to face the blizzard.

Even close relatives of wolves have such existences as the three sleigh fools who can not fear the severe cold.

However, the number of snow wolves is limited, and they only live in northern my country. They are on the verge of extinction. At present, the population of the entire population is only more than 7,000, and it is absolutely impossible to appear in Antarctica.

The green wolf is also unlikely to appear in Antarctica.

"No, this is a wolf." Gao Chuang shook his head.

Although this corpse died for a long time, it was kept intact because of the extremely low temperature outside. I saw that the organism was close to one meter long and its tail was nearly 30 centimeters long, although it looked like a garden dog. It's similar, but its open eyes are slanted, and its mouth is wider than a normal dog. The most important thing is that its snout is pointed. This is the best proof that it is a beast.

"Whether it is a wolf or a dog, dig out this creature first, be careful, don't damage it." Xiang Yang suggested.

Gao Chuang nodded and ordered directly to his own person: "Bring the cutting machine over and cut carefully."

The foreigner was hesitant to speak in an instant, as if he wanted to say that this creature was discovered by him.

But Gao Chuang pretended not to see the expression on the foreigner’s face, and there were more than ten times the number of foreigners on the scene, and this piece of ice was Gao Chuang's first to the top, even if Gao Chuang wanted to catch the group. When a foreigner leaves, the foreigner can only pinch his nose to recognize it.

Soon, the mysterious creature was chiseled out from the ice block.

After seeing the whole picture of this creature, Xiang Yang had a vague guess as to what kind of creature it was.

I saw the tail of this creature, perpendicular to the tip of its hind limbs, and its mouth was open. In its mouth was a sharp fang. As for its hair, it was a very rare red. It was a red-haired monster.

"This should be the Antarctic Snow Wolf." Xiang Yang guessed.

The Antarctic snow wolf is also called the Antarctic wolf. The Falkland Islands wolf is the only terrestrial mammal in the Falkland Islands. It is also frequently found on the Antarctic continent.

And the color of the hair also testifies that this mysterious creature is a Falkland Islands wolf.

The hair of the Falkland Islands wolf changes with temperature. In summer, its hair is generally light yellow or red, and in winter, it turns white.

"Antarctic Snow Wolf? What is that?" Gao Chuang asked.

Xiang Yang thought for a while, and then said: "In the 18th century, there lived a kind of wolf on the Falkland Islands near the southern tip of South America, which is close to the Antarctic Circle. This kind of wolf is the southernmost wolf in the world, except for Fokker. Outside the wolves of the Lan Islands, I really can't think of any wolves that will appear in Antarctica."

Gao Chuang frowned, "This is unscientific. I have been to the Falkland Islands. They are some isolated islands. I also understand that the wolf is a creature. As a predator, the Falkland Islands wolves cannot be in the isolated Falkland Islands. The islands reproduced independently of other related things."

Xiang Yang shrugged, "So they are extinct."

In fact, as to why the Falkland Islands wolves can thrive and survive on the Falkland Islands, scientists are still exploring its secrets to this day.

The Falkland Islands are a group of deserted islands deep in the deep ocean.

According to geologists, the Falkland Islands have never been connected to any continent since ancient times.

There are no other mammals on the island.

There is a theory that the ancestors of the Falkland Islands wolves are actually Antarctic wolves. During the ice age, they reached the Falkland Islands through ice floes.

There is also a theory that the Falkland Islands had dense forests on the island before the ice age. After the glaciers passed, the animals and plants on the island were extinct, and the Falkland Wolf was the only survivor on the island.

However, neither of these two theories found key evidence.

As of today, no remnants of Falkland wolves have been found in Antarctica.

In the Ice Age, canine predators could not survive alone on deserted islands.

Now, what the locals believe is that these Falkland wolves are actually foxes from South America.

Hundreds of thousands of years ago, the domesticated South American mountain fox was taken as a hunting dog by the local primitive people and brought to the Falkland Islands. Then, because of an accident, the primitive man died, the mountain fox survived and experienced After hundreds of thousands of years of evolution, these South American mountain foxes eventually evolved to look like wolves in the Falkland Islands.

However, this statement is only generally accepted by the locals, and scientists outside are scornful of it.

Because biologists did DNA analysis from the Falkland Islands wolf specimens in the museum, they concluded that the earliest common ancestor of the Falkland Islands wolf and the South American mountain fox was 330,000 years ago.

And human beings first arrived in the Falkland Islands 7,000 years ago, at least tens of thousands of generations apart.

"Extinct?" Gao Chuang was taken aback, and then he regretted: "It would be great if it hadn't been extinct. I don't know if this wolf can be domesticated. In places like Antarctica, if a group of dogs that can survive there can be domesticated. Dog, that would help us humans too much."

Xiang Yang smiled, "Probably it can be domesticated, but unfortunately, there is no chance to domesticate now."

Fang Youqun wondered: "Brother Yang, you have never seen alive Falkland Islands wolves, how do you know they can be domesticated?"

"That's because the earliest Falkland Islands wolf name was the Falkland Islands Dog." Xiang Yang smiled.

As early as 1833, when the world-class biologist Darwin logged on to the Falkland Islands for scientific research, the first official name given to the Falkland Islands wolf was the Antarctic dog, which was classified as the same as the domestic dog. In the class, because Darwin discovered that the Falkland Islands wolf is a very docile carnivore.

Only in later studies, scientists generally felt that Falkland Islands wolves were closer to foxes than wolves.

It’s just that the specific classification is still controversial. It’s just that ordinary people are still accustomed to calling them Falkland Islands wolves, while scientists continue to use Darwin’s name for it and define it as an Antarctic stupid dog, because They lack fear of humans. As the only carnivore on the Falkland Islands, they have no natural enemies, so they don’t know what fear is. This arrogant character is one of the reasons for their extinction.

Of course, the main reason for their extinction is still because of human beings.