Chapter 1072: Whale hunting

As soon as Xiao Peng wanted to speak, the sky suddenly became overcast. The heavy rain will fall. Xiao Peng and Sun Pengcheng ran back to the cockpit: "30 days a month, it rains for at least ten days here. You think there may be a large area in such a place. Forest fires? Yes, speed up, go to Cuba as soon as possible, get home early and finish the matter."
The Caribbean Sea in everyone’s mind is sunny and always big. In fact, except for the less rainfall from January to April, the remaining eight months have almost half a month of rainfall.
Especially from June to November, it is definitely not a good time to come to the Caribbean Sea, especially in the Eastern Caribbean Sea. A hurricane blows back every three to five. Cuba is one of the countries that have been hurt by the Caribbean hurricane, but If you pay attention to their maps, you will find interesting things. Major ports such as Manzanillo and Santiago are in the east, carrying various hurricanes every year, while the capital Havana is hidden in the relatively less affected western regions.
It was a good time when Xiao Peng and the others came, at least there was no hurricane. But this sea breeze and rain are quite common. And the rain didn't last long. The sky was clear and clear in the next half an hour and an hour, just like a joke. Before they reached Pinos, it had rained seven or eight times.
"Brother Peng! When can we get there?" Sun Pengcheng asked Xiao Peng, who was lying on the cockpit sofa playing a game console.
Yang Meng, who was driving the boat, replied, "We will be on Pinos Island at this time tomorrow."
Xiao Peng said without raising his head: "Now it's going to be called'Youth Island'."
The name of this island of Pinos was originally in Spanish, meaning "Pine Island". Back then, Cuban Lao Ka was detained in the prison here for several years. Later, after the liberation of Cuba, Lao Ka renamed the island "Youth Island" and established the only special zone in Cuba to encourage young Cubans to develop and build here.
However, Xiao Peng prefers to call it "Treasure Island". Many people have read the novel "Treasure Island" by the British writer Robert Louis Stevenson. Even if they have not read the novel, they have also seen film and television works adapted from the novel. The "Treasure Island" in the novel is actually the current Pinos Island. So much so that people are at a loss when talking about ‘Pinos Island’, and when it comes to Treasure Island, no one knows it.
After hearing the answers of Xiao Peng and the two, Sun Pengcheng looked sad: "It will take so long. I'm almost turning into mayonnaise on the sea."
When Yang Meng heard this, he stretched out his hand and wanted to take a picture of Sun Pengcheng: "You are so embarrassed to say? How long have we been floating on the sea? You are so lazy to get on the boat only a few days before complaining? Or as a soldier. I despise you!"
Sun Pengcheng hid away and pointed to the sea and said, "I look at the sea every day, and I still feel fresh at first. It's annoying to watch it every day."
Xiao Peng threw a binoculars to him casually: "Find a scenery for yourself to see."
Sun Pengcheng said with a bitter face: "Looking at the scenery, at most there are a few seabirds flying around... Huh? Are there dolphins?"
Yang Meng tilted his head and glanced: "I'm going, you terrapin, are you dolphins? That's a group of pilot whales! What kind of dolphins have such big heads? Oh? That's a documentary, right?"
All dolphins and finless porpoises are actually whales. According to taxonomy, they belong to the Dolphinidae of the suborder Toothwhale. It can be understood that dolphins are small whales, like killer whales, pseudo-killer whales, and pilot whales that everyone is familiar with belong to the dolphin family. They are larger in size, and pygmy killer whales are not even as big as dolphins. It is not surprising that it is not clear.
After hearing this, Xiao Peng became interested. He threw the game console on the sofa and leaned on the side of the ship. He saw a ship following a group of pilot whales far away, and someone on the ship was shooting with a camera.
Xiao Peng looked at it: "It's really a documentary."
Yang Meng looked disgusted: "What's the point of shooting a group of pilot whales? How fun to take pictures of killer whales!"
Xiao Peng suddenly pointed to the front: "This time this group of documentaries may be very rewarding!"
Looking in the direction of Xiao Peng's finger, two jets of water spurted out of the sea in the distance, one thick and the other thin. Then a huge figure jumped out and threw it back into the water, directly hitting the high spray.
"Brother Peng, what is that?" Sun Pengcheng had a long memory this time, so I asked Xiao Peng first.
Xiao Peng explained: "That's a gray whale, a kind of baleen whale. It's a very interesting whale. This whale has a larger body circumference than a baleen whale, but it's smaller than a right whale. It's because of this, it's a good thing for creatures. Taxonomy has created a lot of problems. It is said that there are three suborders and ten species of baleen whales, while baleen whales and baleen whales are ignored. That should be the mother of gray whales with children. This is the breeding ground of gray whales, here It's not strange to see gray whales with children."
"Then why do you say that making a documentary may be a great harvest?" Sun Pengcheng asked puzzledly.
Yang Meng answered his question: "The pilot whales are about to start hunting."
"What?" Sun Pengcheng took a binoculars and looked for a long time: "This pilot whale is not as big as a gray whale baby. Are they going to hunt gray whales?"
Xiao Peng nodded: "Although this pilot whale is not as good at fighting as the killer whale, it is at the top of the marine ecological chain, but a good tiger can't hold a pack of wolves? Looking at such a large group, this group of pilot whales is obviously a passing whale. It’s not a resident type. Every year female gray whales bring their little gray whales to spend the winter in the Gulf of Mexico. Those little gray whales become food for killer whales and pilot whales."
Yang Meng laughed and said, "And those guys only eat the tongue and lips of gray whales. You must know that the tongue and lips of gray whales are rich in protein and fat. That is their favorite food!"
Sun Pengcheng blinked after hearing this: "So cruel? Then why don't those documentary filmmakers stop it?"
Yang Meng explained: "There is a'non-interference principle' when shooting documentaries, that is, not to interfere with the subject. They are only eyes and are responsible for recording what they see. We see too many things like this!"
Sun Pengcheng asked: "Then why don't we save it? We are not a documentary. Brother Peng, are you too cruel?"
Xiao Peng lay back on the sofa: "A small whale is more than ten tons in size. The pilot whale kills the small gray whale and only eats the tongue and jaw of the gray whale. The remaining carcass floats on the sea and becomes sharks and other creatures. Food, when the carcass sinks to the bottom of the sea, it becomes some kind of food like shrimps and crabs, and after they eat it, the remaining bones turn into microbes and other food. When the carcass of this little whale is completely digested, at least one is needed Year! How many animals do you think you can feed? This is the ecological chain. If it is rare whales such as horned whales and Trulli's beaked whales, I will save them without saying a word, but gray whales, or give them back. Naturally."
Sun Pengcheng took the telescope and looked at it for a long time: "I'm going, I really did it!"
Xiao Peng looked at the sea. A group of pilot whales rushed towards the two gray whales. The pilot whales also have a clear division of labor. Some pilot whales bite the tail and pectoral fins of the little gray whale, preventing it from moving forward, while the others Desperately pressing the minke whale into the sea, doing so is to suffocate the little gray whale. The mother gray whale used her huge body to push the little gray whale up the water. At the same time, use your body to protect the little gray whale from being harmed by the pilot whale. But the gray whale is too big and too slow, and it's hard to face the attack of the pilot whale group.
There was chaos on the water, and Sun Pengcheng put down his binoculars: "I can't watch it anymore. Isn't this too cruel? Look at the mother whale, it's the little gray whale who has played forever, can you all ignore it?"
Yang Meng shrugged, "I was sailing, I didn't even watch it."
Xiao Peng raised the game console: "I'm playing a game, it's fun to watch with the telescope. Okay, hurry up, this hunting process can last for several hours."
Yang Meng nodded: "I have changed the course a long time ago."
"How many hours?" Sun Pengcheng blinked after listening, "How long does it take for this group of pilot whales to hunt gray whales?"
"Well, what do you think? Even if such a group of pilot whales want to deal with a gray whale is not so easy, but the end result is obvious, the little gray whale is dead." Xiao Peng lay on the sofa and watched. Don't look: "So I don't worry about it, I'm leaving! Pengcheng, you have less time at sea, and you see too little. When you see more, you will follow us."
"Oh. Mengzi, give me your camera, I'll take a few photos as a souvenir!" Sun Pengcheng said to Yang Meng.
Yang Meng pointed at the top of Sun Pengcheng's head: "In that cabinet! Take it yourself! Go to the stern and shoot it yourself! I changed my course."
Sun Pengcheng ran to the stern of the boat and took out the camera and pointed it at the place where the whales were hunting, adjusted the focus and took photos. This was the first time he saw such a thing. He must take the photos back and blow them for a few days! Isn't such a thing something anyone can see with their own eyes?
Xiao Peng said cheerfully, "I like to see how strange he is."
Yang Meng nodded, "That's right! The maggots in the small cottage have never seen big eyes!"
Xiao Peng picked up the walkie-talkie: "Xiaoqiu! Xiaoqiu!"
Xiaoqiu's voice came from the intercom: "Boss, what's the matter?"
Xiao Peng asked, "Is there any blubber that the Aleutians gave us?"
Xiaoqiu replied: "That broken thing? There is still a half-freezer left. It's not greasy, no one wants to eat that thing. Why didn't I want to give it to the Colombians that day when they boarded our ship? Do they eat this?"
"That line, turn it out, let Sun Pengcheng have enough!" Xiao Peng said.
Xiaoqiu laughed and said, "It's great, boss, finally someone will help us deal with this bunch of unwanted stuff."
The two wanted to bury Sun Pengcheng again, but Sun Pengcheng suddenly rushed in: "Brother Peng, Yang Meng! Stop the boat!"
"What's wrong?" Xiao Peng turned around and asked Sun Pengcheng.
As a result, Sun Pengcheng made a blockbuster: "The pilot whales have all flown into the sky!"