Chapter 450: Binny
Yang Jing and the others who returned to the Blue Whale, after a night of sleep, took Dabai to appear on the streets of Longyearbyen again.
However, this time there was one more person in their team. The guy's name was Mickey Kamsonov. He was a Russian-Norwegian. He had lived in Longyearbyen for more than 20 years and was a tourist guide asked by Captain Andre.
Since there are more than ten hours left before setting sail again, it is very necessary to take this opportunity to visit Longyearbyen. Therefore, Mickey Kamsonov, who is familiar with the local situation, appeared.
Although Longyearbyen has a small population, its area is not small. In fact, the buildings here are relatively scattered, and with the existence of valleys and coasts, this leads to the overall layout of this small town in a T-shaped shape.
"We have our own airport and marina, so there are still many tourists coming here every year." Walking on the streets of Longyearbyen, Mickey began to introduce it. After getting to know each other, the Norwegian, a Russian-born, soon entered his role.
Princess 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 spoke very fluently in English. He smiled and said, "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 an extremely strange tone: "Beef Kumamo, Xiaoxin!"
The princess laughed, "It's a bear. Be careful?"
"Yes! Yes! That's what it means." Mikey also laughed, "I learned this from your compatriots, but you Chinese is really too difficult to learn. It took me a long time to speak a few simple Chinese words."
When Yang Jing saw that Mickey was still carrying a gun, he asked curiously: "Can't you banned the gun here? You are so swaying with the gun, are the police not caring about it?"
Mickey shook her head, "Our residents are required to bring guns when going out, that is, to force them to carry guns. This does not mean that the security in the small town is not good. On the contrary, the security situation here is much better than that in most places in the world. It's just that there are too many polar bears here, and we need this kind of thing to help our lives in critical moments."
Mickey took off his gun. Yang Jing looked at the gun and blew a whistle and said, "This is a good gun, Mauser 98 type hunting rifle, this gun is old."
Mickey smiled and said, "Yang, you have a very good vision. This gun was passed on to my father by my grandfather, and later my father passed on to me. This gun has a history of more than 70 years. After the end of World War II, my grandfather came here with this gun."
"Actually, as tourists, you should receive training according to the requirements of the small town, mainly to train you how to deal with polar bears. But I think you shouldn't need training anymore. There is already a mighty wild polar bear by your side. Oh my God, I saw the live broadcast of NRK TV yesterday. This guy is so powerful. His roar almost scared Jenny..."
Dabai looked up at the biped monster, shook his big head, and looked at the roadside not far away, and a low roar came out in his throat.
Dabai's sudden change made Yang Jing shocked. He could clearly feel the murderous aura emitted from Dabai's body, and even more so that Dabai's thoughts at this moment - Lao Zhi was about to kill the little boy!
Yang Jing hurriedly followed Dabai's gaze and found that at the door of a house not far from him, an old man was feeding a bear cub with a blue basin. He should be feeding water. A bear cub of this size is still edible and can't eat other foods.
Seeing the little bear cub, Yang Jing then realized what Dabai wanted to kill the little bear cub.
This is the nature of a polar bear or an adult male polar bear. Polar bears are polygamous. When spring comes, male polar bears can find several "wifes" to mate. However, the sunny period of female polar bears is only three to five days, so during this period, male polar bears must seize the time to mate, otherwise it will be too late.
But, however, many female polar bears will carry their cubs at this time. If the female polar bears carry their cubs, then the female polar bear will not mate with the male polar bear.
So at this time, male polar bears usually kill the bear cubs, so that they can have a happy sex with female polar bears.
In other words, for adult male polar bears, it is natural to kill someone else's child and then let the female bear give birth to their own child. Even if they are no longer mating, adult male polar bears will kill the bear cub.
Dabai is an adult male polar bear. When he saw a little bear cub, he naturally couldn't help but want to bite the little guy to death.
Yang Jing patted Dabai's head and whispered: "What are you doing? Don't always want to make trouble. Be careful about your image?"
Dabai understood what Yang Jing meant, raised his head and rubbed Yang Jing with his big head, but he ignored the little bear cub.
However, Yang Jing was also very curious. Bears of this size should be around the mother bear. How could the mother bear let his little boy leave him?
Just as he was thinking about it, a fat big white bear walked over leisurely from behind the house, and the little bear cub ran over immediately. It was obvious that this bear was the bear cub's mother.
The old man who fed the little bear cubs water when he saw the female bear appear. Not only did he not be afraid, he smiled on his face, turned around and took out a piece of frozen meat from behind and threw it directly to the female bear.
Because of Dabai, Princess and his group also saw this scene. Mickey smiled and said, "It turns out it's Binny."
Princess asked curiously: "Binni? It sounds like a girl's name. Mr. Kamsonov, is Binni the female bear?"
"Just call me Mickey. That's right, Binni is the name given to this female bear in our small town. To be honest, we have to thank Binnie in the whole small town."
When they heard Mickey say this, the group was intrigued.
Mickey didn't move forward anymore. The group stood on the street, watching the female bear eating meat happily while listening to Mickey's story.
"Mickey came to our small town the spring of the previous year. You know, there are a large number of polar bears living around Longyearbyen, and they mainly rely on preying on seals for their livelihoods. However, the temperature in the previous year was much higher than in previous years, which led to the small number of ice floes in the bay. Without ice floes, seals would not rest on the ice floes, so polar bears would not be able to raid seals 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 the food of polar bears is seals, so seals play an irreplaceable role in polar bear recipes. Seals usually do not come to land, and seals usually rest on ice floes. In this way, polar bears can approach the ice floes when the seals rest by swimming and diving, and then take the opportunity to rush on the ice floes to hunt seals.
If seals are alert enough to enter the water early, polar bears will lose their rations.
In fact, polar bears have only about 3% to 5% success rate in hunting harbors.
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 of winter, they need to start hunting seals desperately at the beginning of spring. Because the fat contained in seals is an indispensable thing for polar bears to survive the winter.
But if the temperature is too high in spring, the ice floes will melt quickly, which will cause seals to not rest on the ice floes. The final result is to starve those polar bears that feed on seals. If polar bears cannot obtain enough fat before the end of summer, then polar bears are highly likely to be frozen to death and starved to death in winter.
Sure enough, Mickey's subsequent story confirmed Yang Jing's speculation.
"Because the temperature was too high that spring, the polar bears living near Longyearbyen were extremely short of food. Many polar bears had to leave Longyear to go to other places for food, but there were also some hungry polar bears who actually attacked humans on their own initiative."
"In the summer of that year, twelve children from Oslo led by Old Oslo to go out to admire the polar bears up close. Oh, I forgot to tell you, Old Os is that old man." Mickey pointed to the old man who had just fed the bear cub.
"We have a special tour program in Longyearbyen, which is to take a modified snowmobile to enjoy the polar bears up close. That summer, a summer camp from Oslo came here, and twelve children aged eight to eleven. Old Oss himself had a modified snowmobile, which was not a sled but a tire. Old Oss had done this kind of work thousands of times, and there was no danger every time. As a result, when they arrived at the shore, they were besieged by five adult polar bears. It happened that Old Oss' radio was broken again, so he could not use the radio to ask for help."
"At this time, Binni appeared. This good girl did not come forward to fight those hungry polar bears. She ran back to the city, then shouted loudly in the city, attracted the attention of many people, and took these people to the place where Old Os was attacked. At first, someone wanted to shoot Binni to death, but fortunately someone saw that something was wrong with Binni, so these people followed Binni there, and finally killed three polar bears attacking Old Os, scared away both ends, and rescued Old Os and the twelve children."
Although Mikey said it quite plainly, everyone was frightened when they heard it. Everyone knew how dangerous it was to be attacked by five extremely hungry polar bears. It was wrong that whales such as sperm whales died from stranding, otherwise it would be difficult for polar bears to gather together to eat.
Chapter completed!