Happy Tycoon

After returning to the Blue Whale, Yang Jing and the others took a nap and appeared on the streets of Longyearbyen with Dabai.

But this time there is one more person in their team. This guy is named Mickey Kamsonov, a Russian-Norwegian who has lived in Longyearbyen for more than 20 years. It is Andre A tour guide brought in by the captain.

Since there are still more than ten hours before the re-start, it is quite necessary to take this opportunity to take a good tour of Longyearbyen. Therefore, Miki Kamsonov, who is familiar with the local conditions, appeared.

Although Longyearbyen has a small population, it does not occupy a small area. In fact, the buildings here are relatively scattered, coupled with the existence of valleys and coasts, this leads to the overall layout of this small town in a T-shape.

We have our own airport and wharf here, so there are still a lot of tourists here every year. Walking on the streets of Longyearbyen, Mickey began to introduce. After getting to know each other, the Russian-Norwegian quickly fell into his role.

Grid pointed to a warning sign on the side of the road and asked, Why is this warning sign like this? Why is there a polar bear drawn on it?

Mickey speaks English fluently. He said with a smile: This is to remind tourists to be careful of polar bears. Our small town has only 1,800 people, but there are more than 5,000 polar bears living near the small town. Here , There are more bears than people, so the warning signs here are not to remind people to pay attention to vehicles, but to pay attention to polar bears.

After a pause, Mickey said in a very strange tone: Bear kibble, Xiaoxin!

Grid laughed, It's bears. Be careful?

Yes! Yes! That's what it means. Mickey also laughed, I learned it from your compatriots, but your Chinese is too difficult to learn. It took me a long time to say a few simple sentences. Chinese.

Seeing that Mickey was still carrying a gun, Yang Jing asked curiously, Aren't guns prohibited here? Don't the police care if you come out with a gun so blatantly?

Mickey shook his head, Residents here are required to carry guns when they go out, that is, they are compulsory. This is not to say that the security of the small town is not good. On the contrary, the security situation here is better than that of most people in the world. The law and order is much better in most places. It's just that we have too many polar bears here, and we need this kind of thing to save lives in critical moments.

Mickey took off his gun, Yang Jing looked at the gun with bright eyes, whistled and said: This is a good gun, a Mauser 98 shotgun. This gun is quite old.

Mickey smiled and said: Yang, you have a very good eye. This gun was passed down from my grandfather to my father, and later my father passed it on to me. This gun has a history of more than 70 years. After the end of World War II , my grandfather brought this gun here.

Actually, as tourists, according to the requirements of the small town, you should receive training. The main thing is to train you how to deal with polar bears. But I think you don't need training. There is already a mighty wild polar bear by your side. My God , Yesterday I saw the live program of NRK TV, this big guy is really mighty, a roar almost scared Jenny to pee.

Dabai looked up at the two-legged monster, shook his head, and looked at the roadside not far away, and let out a deep growl from his throat.

This sudden change in Dabai made Yang Jing startled. He could clearly feel the murderous aura emanating from Dabai's body, and he could even feel Dabai's thoughts at this time——Lao Zhi was going to kill the little boy. bastard!

Yang Jing hurriedly followed Dabai's line of sight, and found that at the door of a residential building not far from him, an old man was holding a blue basin to feed a cub, it should be feeding water, a cub of this size She still eats milk and won't eat other foods.

Seeing that little bear cub, Yang Jing finally understood why Dabai wanted to kill this little bear cub.

This is the nature of polar bears or adult male polar bears. Polar bears are polygamous. When spring comes, male polar bears can find several wives to mate with. However, the sunny period of female polar bears is only a short period of three to five days, so during this period, male polar bears must seize the time to mate, otherwise it will be too late.

However, many female polar bears will bring cubs at this time. If a female polar bear has cubs, then the female polar bear will not mate with the male polar bear.

So at this time, the male polar bear usually kills the cub so that he can have a happy sex with the female polar bear.

In other words, for an adult male polar bear, killing someone else's child and letting the female bear give birth to her own child is a matter of course. Adult male polar bears will kill cubs even when they are no longer mating.

Dabai is an adult male polar bear. When he saw a cub, he couldn't help but want to bite the little bear to death.

Yang Jing patted Dabai's head, and said in a low voice: What are you doing? Don't just want to pick things up. Pay attention to your own image, okay?

Dabai understood what Yang Jing meant, raised his head and rubbed his big head against Yang Jing, and then ignored that little bear.

But Yang Jing was also very curious, cubs of this size should be by the mother bear's side, how could the mother bear let her cubs leave her side.

Just as he was thinking about it, a fat big white bear came leisurely from behind the house, and the little bear cub ran over immediately. Obviously, this bear was the bear cub's mother bear.

The old man who fed the cub saw the female bear, not only was not afraid, but a smile appeared on his face. He turned around and took out a piece of thawed meat from behind, and threw it directly to the female bear.

Because of Dabai's reason, Gege and his group also saw this scene, and Mickey smiled and said, So it's Binnie.

Grid asked curiously: Binnie? It sounds like a girl's name. Mr. Kamsonov, is Binnie the female bear?

You can just call me Mickey. That's right, Binny is the name our small town gave to this female bear. Speaking of which, our entire small town is grateful to Binny.

Hearing what Mickey said, the whole group became excited.

Mickey didn't go any further, and the group just stood on the side of the street watching the female bear happily eating meat while listening to Mickey's story.

Mickey came to our small town in the spring of the year before last. As you know, there are a large number of polar bears living around Longyearbyen, and they mainly rely on hunting seals for their livelihood. But the temperature of the year before last was much higher than usual. As a result, the ice floes in the bay have become very scarce. Without the ice floes, the seals will not rest on the ice floes, so polar bears cannot raid the seals staying on the ice floes from the sea.

Yang Jing understood these things, since he met Dabai, he has studied polar bears a lot.

Although polar bears are the top predators in the Arctic Circle, 70% of their food is seals, so seals play an irreplaceable role in the diet of polar bears. The seals usually don't come to land, and the seals usually rest on the ice floes. In this way, polar bears can approach the ice floes where seals rest by swimming and diving, and then take the opportunity to jump up to the ice floes to hunt seals.

If the seals are alert enough to enter the water early, the polar bears will lose their rations.

In fact, polar bears are only about 3 to 5 percent successful in hunting seals.

Such a low predation rate means that if polar bears want to eat enough, and replenish enough energy in summer to accumulate enough fat to resist the severe cold in winter, then they need to start hunting seals desperately at the beginning of spring . Because the fat contained in the seal is an essential thing for polar bears to survive the winter.

But if the temperature in spring is too high, the ice floes will melt quickly, which will prevent the seals from resting on the ice floes, and the end result will be to starve the polar bears who feed on the seals. If polar bears cannot obtain enough fat before the end of summer, there is a great possibility that polar bears will be frozen to death and starved to death in winter.

Sure enough, Mickey's next narration confirmed Yang Jing's guess.

Because of the high temperature that spring, the polar bears living near Longyearbyen were extremely short of food. Many polar bears had to leave Longyearbyen to find food elsewhere, but there were still some hungry polar bears who took the initiative to attack. Humanity.

In the summer of that year, twelve children from Oslo went out to appreciate polar bears at close range under the leadership of Old Oslo. Oh, I forgot to tell you, Old Oslo is the old man. Miki pointed out He pointed to the old man who was feeding the cub just now.

We have a special excursion program in Longyearbyen, which is to take a modified snowmobile to appreciate polar bears up close. That summer, a summer camp from Oslo came here, accompanied by 12 people from eight Children from the age of eleven to the age of eleven. Old Oss himself has a modified snowmobile, the kind that runs on tires instead of sleds. Old Oss has done thousands of jobs like this Once again, there was no danger every time, but that time, when they reached the shore, they were besieged by five adult polar bears. Coincidentally, Old Oss' radio was broken again, so he couldn't Call for help by radio.

At this time, Binnie appeared. This good girl didn't step forward to fight those extremely hungry polar bears. She ran back to the city and roared loudly in the city. After attracting the attention of many people, she brought Lead these people to the place where Old Oss was attacked. At first, some people wanted to shoot Binnie to death, but fortunately, someone saw that there seemed to be something wrong with Binny, so these people followed Binny to the place, and finally killed They killed three polar bears that attacked Old Oss, scared away two, and rescued Oss and the twelve children.

Although Mickey spoke quite plainly, everyone felt terrified when they heard it. Everyone knows how dangerous it is to be attacked by five very hungry polar bears. The fault is that whales such as sperm whales were stranded and died, otherwise it would be difficult for polar bears to gather together to eat.

But once the polar bears gather together to eat, it means that these polar bears are extremely hungry. This kind of polar bear is the most dangerous.