space fisherman

Chapter 626 Narwhal

The crew looked in the direction Bao Chunyu pointed.

There is really a 2-3 meter 'stick' inserted obliquely in the sea at a 45-degree angle.

The weirdest thing is that the 'stick' is still moving on the sea surface.

"I'm going, is it so evil here? We can't meet dirty things, right?"

Seeing the moving 'stick', Ma Hua shouted loudly.

At first, Ye Yuan was also taken aback by the stick, but when his perception clearly saw the underwater situation, he couldn't help laughing.

I am still too young, some things can easily be misled by these guys.

So he said to Ma Hua angrily:

"You look like a dirty thing to me, that's a narwhal!"

Narwhal is also known as ice whale, narwhal, narwhal.

It is one of the species of the narwhal family, and there is only one species of this species.

They live only in arctic waters and are extremely fast and elusive.

They are also called ocean unicorns.

But Ye Yuan and the others saw that the 'stick' sticking out of the water was actually a narwhal's tooth.

The head of the narwhal is small and round, the beak is not obvious, the frontal protuberance is protruding, and it is slightly upturned in front of the mouth.

Neck is free of movement, with a little evidence of neck crease.

The pectoral fins are dark gray in color, small and broad, but short in length, and the ends of the pectoral fins are curved upwards.

No dorsal fin, but a low, fleshy hump on the rear half of the back.

Mottled pattern on back and sides.The belly is pale or white.

The central notch of the caudal fin is obvious, the front edge of the caudal fin becomes more concave with age, and the rear edge becomes more protruding with age.

When the male whale is one year old, the tooth on the left side will protrude and become a tusk.That is the 'stick' that Ye Yuan and the others saw

But the chance of both teeth protruding in a male whale is only 2‰.

Only a handful of people have ever seen a "double-tusked narwhal" in the wild.

According to some records, Blue Star has only found a female whale with double tusks so far.

All male whales have tusks on the left side, the extra right tusk is usually shorter than the left, and both tusks spiral in a counterclockwise direction.

Almost most of the tusks erupt from the teeth on the left side of the upper jaw, with an average length of 2 meters and a maximum length of 3 meters.

Narwhal tusks can have a circumference of up to 30 cm at the base and a weight of up to 10 kg.

About 3% of female whales grow a slender long horn, rarely exceeding 1.2 meters in length.

Adult narwhals can grow to about 5 meters.

The weight is usually 800~1600 kg
The narwhal plays an important role in Western myths and legends.

It has appeared in many fantasy-themed movies.

These whales are rarely spotted.

It can be said that Ye Yuan and the others have just entered the Bering Strait, and they can meet the rare narwhal.

Just because of this, Ye Yuan thought that this trip was not in vain.

And the narwhal, an animal, has another very interesting behavior.

That is if two narwhals had an argument.

Then they'll use their tusks for a fight.

The most interesting thing is that their teeth are sharp, but they don't use their sharp teeth to pierce the body of the same kind.

They fight by knocking each other with their long teeth until one party can't bear the pain.

It can be said that the tusk of the narwhal is a very expensive item.

In the Middle Ages, his teeth were sold as unicorn horns, and the price could reach the price of 10 quilts of gold of the same weight.

At that time, many people believed that grinding narwhal teeth into powder could cure diseases.

There are even rumors that the teeth of narwhals can be brought back to life.

With this rumor, it is conceivable what the fate of the narwhal will be like.

It can be said that such a legend is the culprit that caused the mass hunting of narwhals.

And after people hunted and killed narwhals.

Not only cut off his teeth, but also maximize the benefits of all available parts of his body.

Because whale oil is an important industrial raw material.

So narwhals are not immune to this fate either.

Plus the meat and tail fins of the whales are edible.

The liver, ovary, and body under the brain can be used as medicine. In the face of such huge economic benefits, the number of narwhals is decreasing day by day.

In addition, narwhals are naive, they are not only picky eaters, but also never change their migration routes, which also gives those whalers more convenient opportunities to hunt and kill them.

So the narwhal is now facing the danger of extinction, but there is good news.

The current Blue Star has completely banned the trading of narwhal teeth.

"Narwhal? Why haven't I seen the introduction of this kind of whale?"

Ma Hua had a confused expression.

"Tell you to watch less short videos and read more books, do you think those short video owners know everything?"

After finishing speaking, Ye Yuan stopped talking nonsense with Ma Hua, and hurried back to the cabin to get the drone he bought with a huge price.

Ye Yuan took out the drone, started it, and started the aerial photography mode.

The reason why Ye Yuan prepared the drone was because he wanted to be able to record him with images when he found rare animals.

Who knows when those rare animals will become extinct?
Being able to record something by myself can be regarded as a small contribution to the human beings after Blue Star.

Controlling the drone, the photographer took a picture of a narwhal swimming.

Through the screen of the mobile phone, not only Ye Yuan, but even the crew members around him can clearly see the scene of the narwhal swimming.

"Boss, if you post this video on the short video platform, it will definitely become popular!"

Looking at the screen of Ye Yuan's phone, Ma Hua still gave her some good suggestions.

"I made these as a record, and I didn't make them for the sake of traffic!"

Ye Yuan stared at the screen, and replied without raising his head.

The fishing boat followed the narwhal for a certain distance before Ye Yuan retracted the drone.

Yushui changed its course again and headed deeper.

After more than a day of sailing, Ye Yuan's fishing boat finally couldn't move forward.

The crew members were all standing on the deck at the moment, looking at the ice floes everywhere in front of them.

"Boss, you came here just to see these ice ones?"

Ma Hua looked at Ye Yuan incomprehensibly with an expression that you just let us see this.

"You know a P. We're all in the Arctic Circle now.

Think about it, how many people can drive their own fishing boats around the Arctic Circle?
Just be content, kid, if it weren't for the captain, it's hard to say whether we can come to the Arctic Circle once in our life! "

Ye Yuan didn't need to explain, Pei Fei, who usually doesn't like to talk much, had already given Ma Hua popular science first.

"Boss, look quickly, is there something on the ice over there?"

Wang Husheng is holding a telescope at the moment, so he can see farther than others.

Ye Yuan has the super cheating device of perception.

So you can see great distances on the sea without a telescope.

(End of this chapter)