Chapter 703 Cutting the Fishing Net
"Hiss, I really don't want to go into the water!"
It was freezing cold, and Bifang shivered and gritted his teeth. Unless his body was in a state where it had to be cleaned, he really didn't want to come into contact with the icy sea water. The severe coldness invaded him inch by inch, as if he was entangled by a python, and the feeling of suffocation was extremely strong.
But now I have to leave.
Just now, when Bifang saw the fishing net on the gray whale, he suddenly had an extremely bold idea.
Is it possible to gain the trust of the gray whales by helping the little gray whales cut the fishing nets?
Once the imagination is opened, it is difficult to close it again. The audience was shocked when they heard Bifang's ideas and wondered if Bifang was crazy.
If they were together for a long time, perhaps they could really develop feelings and trust, but is it okay to just simply help remove the fishing nets?
Not to mention the dangers involved. The icy sea water is one of them. Maybe it is nothing for Bifang, after all, it has just performed "winter swimming" not long ago, but the danger does exist objectively.
Besides, the ocean is not like the river. If something is washed away in the river, it is only in a certain area, not in the specific place, and it is mainly in the depth. But if something is washed away in the sea, it will be lost in all directions.
The whale's condition at the end is also suspicious. Even if it is friendly, it might be a bad temper after being trapped for so long. People can be kind, but who can be sure about whales?
All these things make people worry.
Unfortunately, Bifang was determined to leave and had a considerable degree of trust in the whale.
"Whales are a kind of marine creature that is still very mysterious to humans. Their intelligence is still a major topic of marine biological research. They have amazing perception and analysis capabilities of the surrounding collective space, so they also have a full understanding of human behavior. I firmly believe in this."
"Different species of whales also have different temperaments, the killer whales hunt, the beluga whales are cute, the humpback whales are gentle, the blue whales are free, and the gray whale's personality trait is tenacity."
After all, it is the creature with the longest migration distance, traveling back and forth across a quarter of the earth every year. It is very patient and tenacious.
Seeing Bifang giving "personality traits" to the whale inevitably makes the audience feel a little uncomfortable.
[This is too exaggerated, it feels like a human being]
[Actually, whales are really smart. I heard that their IQ is equivalent to that of a 15-year-old teenager.]
[Is it true? Fifteen-year-old humans can do geometric functions, but can whales do that? ]
[Your concept is not the same. The wolf boy is also fifteen years old. Why can't he learn to speak after returning to society for several years? Knowledge is knowledge. Human beings can develop by relying on sociality. Haven't you learned Marxism? ]
The audience had a heated discussion about the intelligence of whales. Regardless of whether whales have the intelligence of fifteen-year-old humans, one thing is constant: whales can indeed understand human behavior and actions in some aspects and respond accordingly.
Whether it is "Old Tom" from last century, the whale rapist among whales, a killer whale who collaborated with humans to hunt minke whales in order to eat the tongue of baleen whales.
In more recent times, people on the western coast of the United States have developed a long-term, positive relationship with migrating gray whales . More and more gray whales allow people to pet them, and sometimes mother whales even take the initiative to bring their calves close to small boats to show their goodwill to humans.
Both can see this.
There is even a more mysterious theory that whales themselves pass on memories, whether it is food or behavior, which are passed down from ancestors. It is very likely that in ancient times, humans and whales had some kind of agreement, but as time passed, we completely forgot it and even wondered about the behavior of whales.
Of course, this statement is too absurd and not very credible, and it is most likely just the self-entertainment of whale lovers.
The example of Old Tom cited by Bifang was a bit horrifying, but it still shocked the audience.
Killer whales like to eat the tongues of gray whales, and Old Tom is the best among them. He often cooperates with the Davidson family, a fisherman.
Old Tom and his clan would trap the minke whales in an area offshore to prevent them from escaping.
Then Old Tom would swim over to the whaling station, stick his tail up above the water and beat it vigorously, alerting the Davidsons.
Sometimes, Old Tom would work with another killer whale. If they felt that the Davidson family's boat was rowing slowly, they would pull the rope on the anchor to drag the boat forward, so the Davidson family's boat was often the first to arrive.
The reward for Old Tom and the orca pod is the tongue and lips of the minke whale.
In this area, the killer whale group can obtain 4 tons of soft, boneless whale meat.
The two sides have been cooperating for a full forty years, and the Davidson family has gone through three generations.
It was just that in 1930, Old Tom and fisherman George Logan teamed up to kill a whale. However, Logan thought that this was the last whaling season, and the whale he killed was too small, so he was unwilling to give the whale head to Old Tom. As a result, when Old Tom and Logan were playing tug-of-war, Logan pulled out several of Tom's teeth with a rope.
As a mammal, losing teeth means infection and death.
A few months later, Old Tom's body was washed up on the beach in the town of Eden.
As a social animal, after Old Tom's death, his community never appeared again in the sea outside the Garden of Eden, and no killer whale ever partnered with humans to hunt whales again.
[Is this Old Tom real or fake? It’s a bit outrageous]
[It seems to be true. I checked and found that Old Tom’s body is still kept as a specimen in the museum…]
[Bullshit... this is really a spirit]
A group of dumbfounded spectators could only watch silently as Bifang took off his clothes, took a few deep breaths, continuously expanded his lungs, increased the oxygen content in his blood, and then jumped into the ice cave.
The biting cold penetrated into every pore and deep into his bone marrow. Bifang shivered subconsciously, and the conditioned contraction of his muscles almost made him choke on water. Fortunately, Bifang held it back.
For the huge gray whale, the 80-kilogram human jumping down from Bifang was nothing at all. It didn't even react at all and continued to breathe on its own.
After floating in the water and waiting quietly for a while, Bifang's heart beat violently, and sugar was decomposed in large quantities, starting to transfer heat to the limbs continuously .
After adapting to the cold environment, Bifang began to look for the little gray whale.
The night in the Arctic is brighter than anywhere else, but even so, it is still pitch black in the sea. You can still see clearly on the ice, but in the ocean, it is almost pitch black.
Bifang tried hard to open his eyes wide, catching as much light as possible, and barely caught the figures of the three big guys, trying to identify the smallest one.
The audience held their breath, and before they knew it, their palms were covered with sweat. As the cold wind blew, the cold spread, as if the Arctic temperature had caught up with them.
