Golden Fishery

ps: Read the exclusive story behind "Golden Fishing Ground", listen to your more suggestions for the novel, pay attention to the official account of Qidian Chinese website (add friends on WeChat-add official account-enter qdread), and tell me quietly! What appeared in the air was a big bird, more than 20 centimeters longer than the red-footed boobies, with black feathers all over, a big and sharp beak, and a light and swallow-like tail. !

This is the pirate bird, also the frigate bird known as the king of the sky!

Yes, in Europe and the United States, the king of the sky is not the bald eagle, the national bird that Americans are proud of, or the golden eagle that roars proudly against the blue sky, or the brave but warlike hawk, but this kind of seabird that is not well-known in Asia.

Why is this domineering seabird so famous? Because they are in the sky, the performance is really amazing.

The frigate bird has well-developed chest muscles and is good at flying. It is an excellent pilot. When they sprint, they are as fast as lightning, and when they are preying, their flying speed can reach 418 kilometers per hour, ranking first in the world.

They can fly up to a height of about 1,200 meters, and they can fly non-stop to places more than 1,600 kilometers away from their nests, and the furthest distance can reach about 4,000 kilometers. Their endurance ranks first in the world.

What's even more amazing is that frigatebirds can also fly in strong winds of level 12. They can even take off and land safely in such storms. You know, they have a wingspan of three meters, but they only weigh less than three kilograms!

After swallowing the herring, the frigatebird turned its head and cast a malicious gaze on another booby. At the same time, it also revealed the symbol of their identity, the blood-red throat pouch on the neck.

Boobies do not swallow fish directly into their stomachs after catching them. They will temporarily rest in the pouch around the neck, and when they panic, they will spit it out. All the frigatebird has to do is to make them panic, and then eat the fish that falls out.

"This is a big frigate bird." Nelson said to Qin Shiou.

Qin Shiou nodded, thinking to himself that of course I knew it was a frigate bird. Although there are many subspecies of frigatebirds, there is only one type of frigatebird in Canada.

Qin Shiou didn't dislike this kind of bird with a bad reputation. He knew that frigate birds had no choice but to be robbers. Their feathers had no oil and couldn't get wet. Otherwise, you will drown, so if you catch food yourself, you can only risk your life to catch a few fish close to the surface.

In addition, even if it wanted to dive into the water to catch fish and then fly when the feathers were as little as possible, frigatebirds couldn't do it. They have large wings, small bodies, and short, thin legs. In this way, it is difficult for their slender legs to support their bodies and take off directly from the water like pelicans and cormorants.

In this way,

In order to survive, frigate birds don't compete for other food rations, so what?

Survival in nature is so cruel, allowing seabirds to drill into the sea to take the lives of fish and octopuses, shouldn't frigatebirds be allowed to take food from seabirds?

Besides, frigatebirds don't take food from these birds in vain. At night, birds such as boobies and seagulls, which are preyed on during the day, often gather around the frigate bird to roost because of its tough temperament. Dare to fight against poisonous snakes and beasts.

In Qin Shiou's view, warship birds can be said to be a social organization among birds. You pay the protection fee, and I will protect you.

The booby is a species with a relatively high IQ among birds. Seeing that the frigate bird with a big heart was aiming at him, the red-footed booby quickly swept away. Then he flew to the bow of the open bow boat, and when he flew down, he shrunk his body.

Now the big frigate bird was dumbfounded. It was flying fast in the air, but it didn't dare to challenge the open bow boat. After flying a few laps, seeing that there was no chance, it flapped its wings and soared into the sky!

"Fuck, it's so fast!" Qin Shiou directly exploded the national curse, and Nelson over there was also the national curse: "*!"

Seeing the big frigate bird leave, the red-footed boobies shook their feathers and stood up, but they didn't fly up directly, but looked at Qin Shiou curiously.

The tiger and the leopard licked their mouths, wagging their tails and lying down, and the birds quietly approached the red-footed boobies along the sides of the ship.

Qin Shiou didn't know what these two guys were planning. They were planning to take down these two boobies.

The red-footed booby is good at flying, and its meat is extremely beautiful. This is also the reason why this bird, which once dominated the west coast of the Atlantic Ocean, has become a national protected animal and is an endangered and extinct species.

Qin Shiou whistled, Huzi and Leopard got up regretfully, turned around and ran back.

Looking at the red-footed booby, Qin Shiou fished out a palm-length herring from the bucket and threw it out.

Two boobies spread their wings and flew up, their long beaks pointed up precisely, and the herring was taken into their mouths at once.

Qin Shiou kept tossing the herring up, and two boobies could catch more than half of them, and he was full after eating four or five. He curled up at the bow of the ship and began to make a 'cuckoo' sound to rest.

Walking slowly, Qin Shiou stretched out his hand tentatively, and the two boobies immediately stood up vigilantly, spread their wings and flew away.

With an idea, Qin Shiou caught another herring and stretched out his hand to explore it.

At this moment, the two red-footed boobies relaxed and folded their wings again. The slightly larger bird opened its mouth and took the fish away. Qin Shiou took advantage of the opportunity to wipe its neck, and it shook head, but did not resist.

Nelson laughed and said, "You've been with animals for a long time, do you have any aura around you? This bird didn't even guard against you. I've never seen such a thing before."

Qin Shiou knew the truth of letting go when he saw something good, so he didn't continue to forcibly pet the two birds, and waved his hand: "Let's go back, damn it, the sun is too big."

The open bow boat broke through the waves and sailed towards the fishing ground. Two boobies rested on the bow of the ship, and they fluttered their wings until they approached the pier.

With nothing to do in the remaining few days, Qin Shiou began to prepare to open up the coral reefs on the seabed.

He first consulted the Australian Coral Reef Conservation Research Institute, and some experts told him that there are many ways to artificially create coral.

What is attracting more attention now is that some marine biologists in Australia have welded metal frames including waste bicycles, placed them in damaged areas of coral reefs on the seabed, and then connected the collected coral reef fragments to the frames, and finally gave the metal frames Connect the power to the stand.

Because electric current can promote the growth and reproduction of coral polyps, it can speed up the construction of coral reefs in this way.

The expert talked several times in a row, and finally he talked about a recent research idea of ​​the University of Sydney: the modular artificial coral reef structure system (mars system).

The core idea of ​​this system is to use concrete to make irregular structures with branches, and then cover the surface with textured ceramics, which can facilitate the growth of animals and plants in the ocean.

Qin Shiou was not interested in the first method. He knew that this so-called electrical stimulation method was not feasible at all, and it was just a gimmick.

First, this electrical stimulation method costs a lot of money and consumes a lot of electric energy; second, electrical stimulation of coral polyps is a means of killing chickens and extracting eggs, just like giving excitement to coral polyps.

He is somewhat interested in the last so-called Mars system. (It’s a great event to drop pie in the sky, cool mobile phones are waiting for you! Follow up~click/Chinese website official account (add friends on WeChat-add official account-enter qdread), and participate immediately! Everyone has a prize, now immediately Pay attention to the qdread WeChat public account!) (to be continued)