Chapter 1180: Biological Wonders of the Aleutian Islands

"Can you not have climbing equipment? Why do I think you are joking?" a girl asked Xiao Peng.
Xiao Peng waved his hand: "You don't have to worry about me. You can just go your own."
Doyle came here as a captain for an academic team in Alaska. They came here to do biological research. So after the heavy rain, they went directly to the island to conduct scientific research activities. Xiao Peng was also curious, and he felt bored anyway. Just follow to join in the fun-it's much more fun than drinking with Xiao Peng and the girls.
The road after the rain was indeed muddy, and the target of the group was the snow-capped mountains on the island. It was really difficult to walk. Except for the camera, camera, and GPS equipment, everyone is fully armed, only Xiao Peng, who wears a set of sportswear like shopping-and that's it.
The girl who was interviewing was called Rachel. She was a member of this academic group. There were four people in the group. A professor came with three students. Rachel was the only woman.
The girl looked at Xiao Peng's clothes and shook her head: "If you can't keep up with us, we won't wait for you."
A muscular man next to him smiled and said, "Rachel, I think your worry is a bit redundant. Look at him, he is more relaxed than us! Chinese people, good physical fitness!"
Xiao Peng smiled and said: "You have also subverted my image. I thought that the people who do scientific research are all without the power of hands. I didn't expect your muscles to be good!"
"Nick Horton!" The muscular man shook hands with Xiao Peng.
Xiao Peng introduced himself: "Xiao Peng."
Nick Horton just wanted to talk, and the professor walking in the front shouted: "Nick, if you have so much energy to chat, why not help me carry a bag!"
Nick pouted secretly at the professor, and then followed him.
Rachel also responded with an apologetic smile and followed the team.
Xiao Peng snorted coldly, don't you look down on me or play with me? I'm not playing with you yet! It turns out that I want to open my eyes through you to see what fun creatures here are. Now I am not afraid without you! I have Baidu!
He turned his head and walked in another direction-what's so fun about Snow Mountain? Let you feed the bears.
The direction he chose was the coastal cliffs. The academic team wanted to go there just now, but the road was too difficult to walk, so I gave up. You dare not go, I dare!
Taking advantage of the few people not paying attention to himself, Xiao Peng jumped up to the cliff three times, only to see a bird that he had never spotted before.
The head is about the size of mynah, it looks like a parrot, and it is also a big beak, but it has an orange mouth and orange webbed feet, the whole body is black, the face is white, and there are two golden eyebrows---- ---The fat head fat brain is very cute.
A large group of these birds live in the grass on the cliff, dug a hole in the ground, and live in the hole. The most important thing is that they are not afraid of people at all because of the lack of people here. Xiao Peng walked back and forth between them, at most it was just two steps--except when Xiao Peng stretched his head into the hole they dug, they would be aggressive.
This is not surprising, there are bird eggs under the nest.
Xiao Peng took the photo and checked it on the Internet. Uh, it really has something to do with parrots. This is a kind of puffin, called Tufted Puffin, because it is so beautiful, it is also called the Oiran.
Well, it really deserves its name. It's really beautiful.
There are also short-tailed albatross here. Seeing Xiao Peng, he wanted to escape, but couldn't.
This thing is too heavy, and it must have enough wind to fly. Now the rainstorm guard post naturally cannot fly.
But the short-tailed albatross he saw had an ankle ring on its feet with Y10 written on it. He knew the origin of this albatross.
In 2008, a group of experts from the Japanese country and a group of experts from the Stars and Stripes worked together on a protection project for the protection of young albatrosses. Considering that the number of short-tailed albatrosses is declining, at least there are only 500 in the world, and they are short-tailed albatross Important breeding grounds-the'Bird Island' in the Wa country is another active volcanic island. If the volcanic eruption damages the young birds too much, they will bring a group of short-tailed albatross bred on the bird island. Small islands in the South Pacific, let these young birds grow up there and feed them artificially.
This method has greatly protected the survival rate of young short-tailed albatross. The temperature of the short-tailed albatross now exceeds 3,000. And this short-tailed albatross with ankle ring is the group of rescued short-tailed albatross.
When Xiao Peng was still there considering whether to steal this short-tailed albatross back to Huaxia to raise it, the sky suddenly became dark.
This shocked Xiao Peng. Why was it suddenly dark? He was startled when he looked up.
The entire sky was blocked by a flock of birds! I heard an adjective called ‘cover the sky and cover the sun’ all day, but I only heard that he hadn’t seen it before, but he really realized what is called ‘cover the sky and cover the sun’! The entire sky was blocked by a group of flying birds!
This number is at least several million!
Xiao Peng grew up in the city. Although he has been at sea for a long time, he has gained a lot of knowledge, but he has never seen such a situation!
Such a big flock of birds? how is this possible?
When such a large group of birds landed on the surface, the entire surface of the sea turned black.
He has seen this kind of bird. It is called the short-tailed bird, which is a very favorite food for the Aleutians. But what he didn't know was that 90% of the short-tailed owls in the world would stay here in the Aleutian Peninsula this season.
Xiao Peng found a large group of herrings swimming over again. Xiao Peng thought that the short-tailed hawks were here to hunt herring, but found that it was not the case.
Because this is where the ocean current and the warm current meet, there are a lot of krill and plankton in the sea. It didn't take long for Xiao Peng to see the entire surface of the sea that turned pink. It was a group of krill. The targets of herring and short-tailed hawks are these krill.
But they are not competition, but cooperation!
Herring feeds on krill from the depths of the water and drives the krill group to the surface. In this way, the short-tailed owl on the water can eat the krill effortlessly.
There are too many krill groups here than Qianliyan's krill, and Xiao Peng is jealous!
His jealousy is not because of the economic value of the krill. Qianliyan has peony shrimp, ‘the noble in the shrimp’. And what is the economic value of this krill? . . . . . It can only be described with a sigh.
The "shrimp skin" used by Huaxia people to make soup is made of krill. It is a transparent shrimp. And this kind of krill may also be the most abundant seafood in the world. There are trillions of tons of krill in the entire ocean! However, due to its low economic value, the global annual output is now only 500,000 tons.
It is because the profitability of fishing this kind of shrimp is too low.
But this kind of krill is a very, very important part of the marine food chain! Almost all creatures in any link of the marine ecological chain feed on it! What a group of krill is this! The whole ocean has turned pink! With them, Qianliyan doesn't need feed anymore! It's a pity, why don't you have so many krill anywhere?
At this moment, the ocean became chaotic, and short-tailed hawks also began to take off.
Before Xiao Peng understood what was happening, he saw several big mouths appearing on the water. After one bite, a large piece of krill was wiped out.
Xiao Peng covered his face, and the most worrying thing in Qianliyan is here too!
Yes, a group of big-winged whales also joined the hunting group! It's a serious group! There are at least dozens of heads!
Big-winged whales usually live in the waters from Mexico to Hawaii, but where food is scarce, there may be no food for several months each year, but the Aleutian Islands are rich in food, so they hunt here this season of the year. ,
Every year this season there are tens of thousands of big-winged whales foraging here-this is also a quarter of the number of big-winged whales in the world!
These big-winged whales usually live alone, and only when hunting in this way can we see large groups of big-winged whales together! Before long, at least five hundred big-winged whales in the waters in front of them came here to hunt!
At this time, the group of flying short-tailed owls also landed, ignoring the big-winged whales, and landed back to the surface of the sea, the surface of the sea returned to black!
It was the first time for Xiao Peng to see such a magnificent scenery, and he was shocked. Fortunately, his mobile phone lens was very good. The scene in front of me was filmed. More than 500 big-winged whales hunt together? This scene is really not too shocking!
In less than ten minutes, the swarms of krill were swallowed up! The sea was calm again.
Xiao Peng looked at the camera he had taken, and while sighing the wonder of nature, he suddenly heard the sound of the engine.
He looked up and an airplane flew over.
Xiao Peng put his phone back in his pocket, and the scenery of the Aleutian Islands can only be seen in the future. You don't even have to ask, this must be for yourself.
Why is he so confident? The reason is very simple. The planes locals come here are usually Cenas propeller planes of various models, but now they are Dassault Falcon 900 business jets.
Qian Congcong had one of this stuff, and all Xiao Peng recognized it at a glance.
Those who come to Bailu Port by plane can't be someone else except looking for themselves.
Fortunately, this group of short-tailed hawks landed on the surface of the sea. If they were to fly at this time, this plane would really dare not land! If this Nima stirs a few into the engine, something big will happen!
Xiao Peng hurried back the same way. When he returned to the Segna Bar, he found that everyone was drinking there, and no strangers had come. Did you guess wrong?
Seeing Xiao Peng coming back, Yang Meng was also very surprised: "Hey, why are you back? Didn't you go to the snow-capped mountains?"
Xiao Peng shook his head and said: "I just saw a plane coming over, I thought it was here to find us! I came back quickly!"
Yang Meng's eyes lit up after hearing this: "Here is the plane? Great!" He started to run out after he finished.
Xiao Peng held him: "It's raining outside again, where are you going?"
Yang Meng said, "Buy wine! Now I drank all the Haiyan wine!"
"...How much did you drink?"