Six hundred and ninetieth eight chapters sleepy whale
The sound of huge jets of air resounded on the vast ice field, and Bifang pulled the reins, stopping San Sha from continuing to move forward.
The audience were also startled by the sudden sound and asked what it was.
【what sound?】
【what is that?】
【Something exploded?】
Bi Fang rolled up the musk ox hide, got off the sled, stood on the ice, and looked into the distance. Under the faint starlight, he watched the water column blow out again, as if something was constantly rising and falling, and he had a vague guess in his heart.
.
"It looks like a whale."
whale!?
The water friends were surprised. The height of the drone was much higher than that of Bifang. Theoretically, they could see further than Bifang. But looking at it from a distance, they saw a large area covered with glaciers. How could a whale appear and spray?
Water spout?
How did they spray out?
"You'll know if you go over and take a look." Bi Fang stepped on the sled again, pulled the reins, adjusted the direction and rushed towards the direction of the water jet.
As the distance got closer, the audience finally saw through the aerial drone that there was a huge ice cave on the vast ice field. Sea water was surging inside, and inside the ice cave, a giant
The beast is constantly rising and falling, spewing water jets.
【What a whale!!!】
【Why did the whale come here?】
[There are whales in Greenland, what do you think?]
[Wait a minute, there seems to be more than one whale!]
【Two ends! There are two ends!】
"No, it's three heads."
Bi Fang drove the sled to the cave and finally saw clearly what the huge thing under the undulating sea water was.
It has a huge body length of more than ten meters, and its whole body is gray and covered with white spots. Its skin is uneven and looks very mottled.
【What kind of whale is this? A blue whale?】
[I don’t think so. Didn’t Lao Fang encounter it once? It felt different from the blue whale]
"These are three gray whales, they look like a family."
Bi Fang, who was squatting next to the ice cave, gave the answer directly, and the audience was stunned.
【Family?】
[I don’t recognize what kind of whale this is at all]
【So big, this is too big】
To people who don't know much about it, each type of large whale seems to look pretty much the same, but to a more professional person, each type of whale is quite different.
"The body length of gray whales is between 10-15 meters, and the weight exceeds more than 30 tons. The whole body is gray, dark gray or blue-gray, with white spots, and the color of the belly is lighter."
“Have you seen the uneven spots on their backs?” Bifang pointed to the back of the gray whale that surfaced and said, “Those are mainly scratches caused by rocks or gravel, and the attachment of parasitic animals such as barnacles.
The skin is skin-like due to the scars underneath. Therefore, some people call it the 'grey rocky shore swimmer'."
The mottled skin was not pretty, and most of the audience had some goosebumps.
Bi Fang went on to point out some unique characteristics of gray whales.
"In addition to these, gray whales have many characteristics that are not unique, but all of them are unique. For example, its eyes are oval, located behind the corners of its mouth, and are positioned higher than the eyes of other baleen whales.
The upper eyelids are slightly longer.”
"The ear opening is large enough to accommodate a pencil and is located between the eye and the base of the flipper."
"The baleen is light yellow, with approximately 140-180 pieces on each side and a length of 40-50 cm. The baleen plate is thick and the baleen hairs are rough, and the entire baleen plate gives people a heavy feeling."
"It also has a thick and fat body, especially near the flippers. Although there is no dorsal fin, the back is exposed, and you can see 8 to 15 small hump-like ridges on the back of the tail."
"And gray whales don't have furrows, emmm, everyone knows about Thanos, right?" Bifang rubbed his chin and said suddenly.
[I know, I know, purple sweet potato essence]
[Why are you still related to Thanos? 】
"Yes, Thanos's chin is somewhat like a whale's folds, which gray whales don't have. Some people think that the function of the folds is to help the animal expand or contract the chest cavity when breathing, and to increase the size when feeding.
The capacity of the oral cavity, and gray whales are the most primitive shallow-water type among existing baleen whales, so the fold grooves are not as developed as other baleen whales."
As if seeing Bifang's arrival, the gray whale that surfaced to take a breath let out a sad groan like a cry. Like a human sigh, it continued to spread on the ice sheet and sprayed out a stream towards the ice cave.
The water column, said to be a water column, is more like an icicle.
The mist-like water vapor instantly turned into frost when it came into contact with the extremely cold weather in the Arctic. Part of it fell into the ocean and dissolved, while the other part fell on the ice and continued to accumulate. Bi Fang stretched out his hand and found that it was already a finger deep, and gray whales could be seen.
Have been here for a long time.
"The gray whale has two blowholes, both located behind the highest point of the snout. The distance between the front ends of the two holes is closer, about 7 centimeters, and the distance between the rear ends is slightly farther, about 21 centimeters. We just saw
And all you hear is it's puffing."
"It is precisely because there are two that the fog pillars emitted by gray whales are short and thick, with flat tops and very close to each other. Therefore, when viewed from the back, they appear to be two fog pillars very close to each other. When viewed from the side,
Just like there is only one fog column, the two-in-one makes the water column more obvious, which can be easily seen by us."
If it weren't for such a thick fog pillar, even with Bi Fang's eyesight, it would be difficult to notice it at once in the Arctic at night.
【I see】
[Isn’t it dangerous to stand nearby?]
[The sound of whales makes me feel so sad]
At this time, the audience was filled with confusion, especially when they saw the scar on the head of the gray whale. The whale seemed to be torturing itself.
"It's not that dangerous. I once encountered a blue whale once when I was trying to survive in the ocean. I don't know if you still remember what I said before. There are two major types of whales."
"One type is baleen whales. Baleen whales have no teeth and mainly eat some crustaceans, such as krill. In terms of personality, they are quite docile to humans. The other type is toothed whales. They have sharp teeth and like to eat large squid.
, Octopuses and fish have relatively ferocious personalities. Gray whales, like blue whales, are also a type of baleen whale."
But this still cannot solve the audience's confusion as to why the gray whale is here and keeps rising and falling.
Although Bi Fang said that the skin on the gray whale's head was scratched like this by rocks or something, there are obviously many new injuries on the gray whale's head, which can be seen by normal people, and it is impossible for Fang Shen not to know.
"Quite simply, they're trapped."
Trapped?
What's the meaning?
The more the audience listened, the more confused they became.
Bi Fang stood up, looked at the vast ice field, and squinted his eyes: "There are at least several kilometers of ice fields around. Gray whales do not directly break through the ice like bowhead whales. They cannot break through the ice to breathe and swim to the sea. They can only hold on to this one."