live animal world

Chapter 220 219. Face Slapping
The leatherback turtle seemed to have found a suitable position, lay down on the ground and started digging a hole to prepare for giving birth.

Su Yun moved the table away to make room for the leatherback turtle, then flipped through the food while watching it lay eggs.

The seagull patrolled back and forth, hoping to snatch two eggs from under the female turtle's buttocks to fill her stomach.

The leatherback turtle next to Su Yun was lucky. The seagulls in the surrounding area seemed to be afraid of Su Yun and did not dare to go this way, so they were able to save the turtle eggs.

Filling his stomach sloppily, Su Yun rested for a while. After the leatherback turtle at his feet buried the eggs and left, Su Yun got up and put on his diving suit to go into the sea.

Taking out a new oxygen tank in the motorboat, and reminding the parrot again, Su Yun slowly walked into the sea.

With a head-mounted flashlight on his head, Su Yun swam straight into the deep sea.

"We haven't found the animal we're looking for during the day. It's probably because the animal was lurking during the day."

Taking a deep breath, Su Yun said, "So diving into the sea at night is a must."

"Because I can't guarantee that I can find the target creature during the day tomorrow, so I can't waste all my time looking for these three animals."

"Although it's more dangerous to look for at night."

The place we are going to go this time is very deep and densely covered with strange rocks, but corals can still be easily seen.

Nocturnal fish appear to be more active and tend to be larger than daytime fish.

A two-meter-long grouper was patrolling its territory. When it saw Su Yun, it approached curiously. When it found that Su Yun had nothing to bite, it swam right past Su Yun, startled. Su Yun broke out in a cold sweat

In the coral, an octopus moves slowly close to the coral. Eight tentacles touch every corner of the coral, hoping to find food. A sole slowly passes by the octopus, pretending to be a poisonous insect. He didn't deceive the octopus' eyes, and didn't even have a chance to escape, so he was instantly covered by the octopus, and then strangled in place.

This scene was seen by Su Yun, thinking in his heart that the danger level at night seems to be higher than that during the day, and the desire to kill animals at night is very strong.

The blood began to spill out, and such a fresh smell of blood would definitely attract the attention of other predators, so the octopus rolled up the sole without hesitation and disappeared in place to swim to the distance.

Just as Su Yun was watching, his body could not be controlled and was swept aside by the sea in the next second, and he saw that the grouper that left just now had bitten the body of the octopus into pieces.

Such a large grouper can be called a dominance here, even the sharks swimming in the coral reef are unwilling to provoke each other.

Avoiding the opponent, Su Yun dived to a pothole on a rock wall, pointed into it and said softly, "Fish also need to rest. They are busy all day, and they must sleep at night. Unlike us humans, fish have no eyes." , so the fish will always be in a trance state when the night comes to rest."

"Fish in a trance state will also overflow with smell, and the leak of smell will attract predators to sneak attack. It is impossible to avoid the sneak attack, but the fish in front of us can effectively avoid predators. .”

The fish in the pit glanced at Su Yun, then continued to work on his work.

Su Yun leaned forward again and said, "This fish is called a wrasse. It is very common in tropical seas, especially in coral reefs."

"Same as the cleft lip fish we have seen before, it also provides services for other fish, that is, cleaning up garbage!"

"But unlike the cleft fish, the cleft fish needs to find fish that need services by itself, and then obtain food. The wrasses in front of us only need to stay at home, some groupers, moray eels Those kind of things will come to your door asking for help with wrasses cleaning up.”

As he spoke, Su Yun looked at the swallowing wrasses and said, "Tell me how the wrasses in front of you avoid sneak attacks from predators."

"Did you see the mucus spitting out of its mouth? This is its life-saving trick to prevent its own smell from spilling out."

I saw the wrasse with its mouth open, pushing in its throat, and the white viscous liquid slowly began to wrap around the body like a messy spider web. While swallowing and spitting out the mucus, the gills began to filter the water to fill the mucus that wrapped the body , slowly filling it up, forming a spherical cage of viscous liquid.

It's like blowing up a balloon.

"See, the mucus spit out by the wrasse can effectively prevent the body odor from spilling out, and can effectively prevent other predators from finding it."

"Very safe!" Saying that, Su Yun smiled and gave the wrasse a thumbs up.

Just when Su Yun wanted to see what was said in the barrage, the next second, a slender figure slammed into the hole, and the wrasse that was knotting a sleeping bag was bitten by the other party, before the blood scattered When it opened, it was swallowed by the other two.

"Damn!" Su Yun was taken aback, grabbed the stone wall and hid aside, and put his hand directly on the dagger.

[Damn, I saw the shark again. Is this the shark's den, or is it that the anchor is fighting with the shark? 】

[It’s over, I can’t run away this time, good guy, here comes three more! 】

[The anchor was immediately slapped in the face. Just now, he said that the wrasses can isolate their own smell and will not be targeted by predators. The next second, they were directly eaten by sharks, leaving no bones or residue. 】

Su Yun's face turned dark. He looked at the four slender white-tip reef sharks swimming beside him and said softly, "I haven't finished my science education yet. I'm just talking about ordinary predators, and sharks are not included in this."

"The shark in front of me is a whitetip reef shark. Not only can it lock its prey through scent, it also has a unique skill, which is shared by all sharks. It can find prey in the form of radio waves."

"As long as the fish is breathing and the gills are opening and closing, whitetip reef sharks can find each other and devour them."

[You can shut up, these four sharks are staring at you now, don't let them eat you. 】

【I'm so scared to death. 】

[Why are there so many sharks in the Great Barrier Reef? 】

Su Yun said again, "There shouldn't be any major problems. Whitetip reef sharks don't seem to have any record of attacking people."

Probing, Su Yun stretched out his hand nervously to touch the shark. The whitetip reef shark avoided it. It seemed that it couldn't eat Su Yun, so it scattered and continued to search for prey.

Su Yun breathed a sigh of relief, slowly landed on the ground and said, "Whitetip reef sharks are relatively docile. If you encounter tiger sharks again, you will be finished."

After a pause, Su Yun continued, "Different from the breathing method of great white sharks, whitetip reef sharks can lie on the bottom of the sea to breathe, and they live in groups and hunt for food at night."

"And it's a territorial sedentary fish species."

"We should be in the territory of the white tip reef shark now, but it doesn't matter, they don't seem to be interested in me."

Leaning on the stone, Su Yun wanted to get up and leave, but suddenly felt something sliding on his feet.

Then he subconsciously lowered his head and looked at his feet. After seeing the opponent's appearance, Su Yun said in a daze, "Conch snail?!"

(End of this chapter)