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Chapter 228. 227. Bumphead Parrotfish

After tidying up all the items and making sure that there was no litter left on the beach, Su Yun stood beside the motorboat and began to put on diving equipment.

"Let's go look for the blue-ringed octopus in the coral reef again. If we can find the blue-ringed octopus this time, then we can look for opportunities to get up close to great white sharks. If we can't find the blue-ringed octopus, we will change places and continue looking for the blue-ringed octopus. "

Su Yun carried the oxygen tank on his back, told the parrot to be safe, and then walked towards the coral reef.

But just less than two or three minutes after Su Yun dived into the water, the seagulls that were originally densely covered on the beach suddenly flew up as if they had made an agreement, and rushed towards the inland east coast in groups.

The panicked and rapid cries of the seagulls also reminded all the animals on the beach. The flying ones flew up into the sky, but the only ones who couldn’t fly were the sea turtles, and the eggs would not lay. Start to climb into the sea.

The parrot stood on the top of the tree, watching the animals fleeing as if they had predicted the end of the world, and didn't know what happened for a while.

After all, it is also an animal, but it has not received hints from nature.

"Are these grandchildren playing me?" the parrot muttered, leaning lazily against the tree, closing its eyes and resting.

Letting his body fall freely, Su Yun slowly floated up and swam towards the target after stepping on the bottom of the sea.

"The place where the blue-ringed octopus likes to stay is the coral reef near the coast. As I said before, the coral reef is rich in species and feeds 1/4 of the creatures in the ocean, so there is no reason for the blue-ringed octopus not to look for such prey-intensive places. Food."

Su Yun said, "So let's just search carefully on the coral reefs as before."

The color of the blue-ringed octopus is basically similar to coral reefs, which may confuse others, but it is not a worry for Su Yun.

The dormant fish that I saw last night were all active at this time, but those who were busy filling their stomachs at night were all lying on the bottom of the sea.

Like whitetip reef sharks.

Slowly falling to the bottom of the sea, Su Yun reached out and picked up a medium-sized whitetip reef shark. It was no longer the vicious look of last night. At this time, the whitetip reef shark is as well-behaved as a baby.

"The whitetip reef shark seems to have a dual personality. In the impression of many researchers, during the day, as long as you don't hurt the other party, no matter how you touch it, the whitetip reef shark will not get angry or even bother to talk to you."

"But at night, if you don't touch it, it has to come to see you. Once it finds that you can eat it, it will definitely open its mouth and give you a bite."

"But so far there have been no recorded injuries from whitetip reef sharks."

Putting down the opponent, Su Yun continued to swim away.

【Good boy, can our country support it? 】

[What the hell!As long as we are not familiar with it, we can’t keep it. It’s like Master Niao. The reason why the anchor can raise Master Niao is because he has a breeding certificate. Without a breeding certificate, it is a violation of the law. 】

Su Yun shook his head slightly. This kind of news is not uncommon, and Su Yun is not very good at commenting on this kind of thing.

Passing by a coral reef, a wrasse was working hard to give a giant grouper a bath, and a turtle was waiting in line aside. Seeing Su Yun's arrival, the turtle stretched its neck and took a look at the back of its butt, as if it was After telling Su Yun that he wanted to take a bath, he queued up.

Su Yu waved his hand without stopping, and left straight away. This time, Su Yun didn't plan to circle around the coral reef, he wanted to take a look at the outermost part of the coral reef.

The corals, swimming fish and strange rocks on the bottom of the sea are an unparalleled spectacle for the audience in the live broadcast room. They can watch them all day with a bench. There are all kinds of fish, all kinds of strange things.

Just as he was swimming, suddenly there was muddy sand drifting towards the side, one wave after another, Su Yun was taken aback, is there a fight between fish?So subconsciously turned his head to look.

After seeing it clearly, Su Yun quickly continued to float up in disgust.

"These grandsons are shitting next to me!" Su Yun was furious. After floating up, he swam towards the opponent in displeasure.

I saw a group of fish with high foreheads gnawing on the coral while excreting waste from their bodies. Some fish were swimming fast while defecating, just like defecating has recoil.How to describe it, it is like the colorful smoke ejected from the plane when it is flying in the sky.

From the head fish at the front to the fish at the back, all of them are shitting, even if they are following other fish, they don't feel disgusted when they shit on their faces.

Seeing Su Yun approaching, he was not afraid, and ate on his own.

Su Yun avoided a piece of turbidity and followed one of the fish to swim, "This fish is called bumphead parrotfish, isn't it very unique?"

"The stronger point is that their reproductive ability is relatively strong, and they will produce fish eggs almost every month. Whenever the morning of the full moon, this group of bumphead parrotfish will get together, the females will lay eggs, and the males will fertilize , and they live for a long time, around 40 years.”

After a pause, Su Yun said speechlessly, "Our country also has this kind of fish, but there are relatively few of them in the bay. There are about 20-30 wild ones. I wonder, this kind of fish has a litter a month. How did the fish become endangered."

The hump-headed parrotfish next to Su Yun looked at the nagging Su Yun strangely, and turned his head to the side in fear. Su Yun hurriedly followed, he didn't want to follow behind the other party's ass.

Regardless of the other party's terrified expression, Su Yun pointed at the other party's mouth and said with a smile, "Look at its mouth, and then think about Master Bird's mouth, is it very similar? With its towering forehead, the name is obvious."

"They all live in groups. They are cautious and timid by nature. They sleep together at night and forage for food in groups during the day." Looking at the bumphead parrotfish following behind, they couldn't see their heads at a glance , just like a flock of sheep.

The word "sheep" is indeed a reasonable description, because the body size of bumphead parrotfish is basically about 1.5 meters, which is about the same size as a sheep. Small bumphead parrotfish will also be protected by the larger ones in the group.

"The mouth of the bumphead parrotfish is very hard, and the muscles in the giant jaw are very powerful from the degree of the bulge, so they can easily eat the coral polyps on the coral reef."

"What's more interesting is that the coral skeletons and carbonates excreted after the eaten coral polyps are digested by the bumphead parrotfish can not only become nutrients for nourishing coral polyps, but also form new coral reefs."

"This has led to continuous changes in the coral reef environment. Maybe the coral reef we see today is two meters high, and it may be one meter tomorrow, while the low coral reef next to it grows two or three meters taller."

"Of course, my description is exaggerated."

The chewing sound of the bumphead parrotfish is powerful and crunchy, which can make people appetite.

Su Yun patted the brain gate of the headfish, and slowly moved away from this group of peculiar-looking but gentle fish, and said softly, "Even though each bumphead parrotfish eats about 5 tons of coral skeletons every year, But at least they destroy the reef and they fill it back up in another way."

"If only humans were the same as bumphead parrotfish in this regard."

(End of this chapter)