Live Wilderness Adventure

Chapter 731 Light (Two in One)

Twenty years ago, no biologist in the Arctic would have used words such as skinny and weak to describe polar bears.

In people's general impression, the polar bear is always the strong arctic overlord.

They have no natural enemies in this land, they can run carefree on the ice sheet, and their huge bodies can even shake the ground.

They swim in the ocean, and their strong forelimbs and feet can provide them with web-like functions, allowing them to move freely in the sea.

Some polar bears can even migrate between lands that are hundreds of kilometers apart through the ocean. They spend most of their lives floating on sea ice and only land on land during the breeding season.

Another benefit of sea ice is that they provide polar bears with a steady source of food—seals.

When seals are breathing and resting on the sea ice, they are likely to become a meal for polar bears. In addition to seals, polar bears will occasionally eat some whale carcasses.

Even if the polar bears are not so lucky and do not hunt seals, their fat layer stored under the skin can provide them with energy supply for a certain period of time.

The layer of fat will make them look solid, Bi Fang said.

The body shape of polar bears and brown bears is completely different. Their fat layer is extremely thick, and their body skeletons are larger, which are used to accommodate and support everything that is huge, so the proportions of their heads and bodies are completely different.

The difference between the two is visible to the naked eye.

Polar bears have relatively small heads, slender necks, slightly longer hind limbs than forelimbs, and a forward-leaning posture; while brown bears have rounder heads, short and thick necks, no significant difference in limb length, and a body that is parallel to the ground.

Even non-professionals can easily distinguish the two species. How can professional staff in animal protection organizations fail to recognize the brown bear wearing a white vest?

The online story that the so-called albino brown bear Joy was mistaken for a polar bear and sent to the North Pole twice is nothing but a false compilation.

While no albino brown bear named Joy has made it to the North Pole twice, many polar bears have literally lost their homes and been forced to head inland in search of food.

That was the beginning of this century, and everything started to change.

When exploring the Arctic, one can occasionally find polar bears that are so thin that they look like walking skeleton bears.

If these polar bears can no longer find food, they will inevitably starve to death, but their weak bodies can no longer withstand the intensity of hunting, and death is already doomed.

The acceleration of global warming has shortened the lifespan of sea ice, making it very difficult for polar bears to hunt. They may face increasingly tense living conditions and higher mortality. In order to obtain enough food, polar bears must It can only go to farther areas to catch prey.

Polar bears have left the North Pole.

Over the years, polar bears have been fighting against some adverse factors, and the disappearance of these polar bears also tells humans that they have lost the battle without natural enemies.

Polar bears that break free from sea ice lose a crucial food item, seals, but in southeastern Greenland we found an isolated and genetically distinct population of polar bears.

Unlike other polar bears that rely on sea ice for survival, these bears hunt year-round on freshwater ice near marine glaciers, where sea ice conditions are close to those we project for the Arctic in the late 21st century.

From the past to the present, and then to the future, Bi Fang fully explained why the polar bears in Greenland seem to have a good life.

The polar bears here may be the only ones that will survive in the future. They are better adapted to the environment.

Bi Fang stood on the ice field, looked at the giant bear staring at him in the distance, and smiled.

During the days of galloping on the snow field, Bi Fang has seen many creatures, which brought him a great sense of novelty. Recently, he has his eye on a polar female bear, who takes her baby on the ice field every day. Looking for food and watching from a distance is very interesting.

The huge polar mother bear walked forward with her huge body, and the young cub followed behind, often being attracted by other things around her. When she came back to her senses, she found that her mother had gone far.

The little polar bear got up in a panic, ran and jumped to keep up, and then was attracted by ice or stones on the side of the road, and went back and forth.

For many endangered animals, they only have one chance, and the reduction of the base makes them no chance of trial and error. They are not like Australian hares. Even if they develop a special race virus, they still have a large enough base to ensure the emergence of antibodies. Individuals can still reproduce stably.

Not to mention that many animals, plants and small creatures cannot be effectively counted at all, and most of the time it is not even clear whether they are extinct.

The extinction risk of many species may be much more serious than we imagined. For example, the northern stomach brook frog in Australia took less than a year from discovery to complete extinction.

[Whoever kills will go to whomever, the money has been taken away by others, and now other people have to bear the consequences, even if it is extinct, it will not affect me, a person who even has to pay to enter the zoo]

[The suffering of life makes people boring, alas:-(]

[The development of human beings is to remove the wooden boards in the wooden house for heating in winter, but a cement room is still being built next to it. If the wooden houses are completely gone before the new houses are built, human beings will not be far from extinction. But if the board is not removed, some people will not be able to see the sun the next day. 】

Many people may not be able to understand the impact of the extinction of such small things, such as the Pinta Island giant tortoise, or the spotted soft-shelled turtle, which has no impact on our lives at all. The protection of animals is more out of a kind of sympathy.

But I think species protection is like playing Jenga. This is a building block game. I don't know if you have played it. It consists of a large number of square wooden blocks neatly stacked into a large cuboid, constantly Extract individual wooden blocks from it until the cuboid collapses after someone extracts it.

Friends of the water have realized that many people may not have played this kind of game, but they have heard of it, and it is used as a metaphor at this moment, which is vivid and vivid.

The purpose of species protection is to minimize the number of building blocks that are pulled out, so as to protect the building of the biosphere from collapsing.

Bi Fang smiled and said: I have said similar things many times, no matter how much I say, it seems like preaching, but this time, the survival is coming to an end, and it seems that I can't sublimate the theme if I don't say something. There must be an ending when writing an essay before.

So start having fun.

It took hundreds of millions of years of evolution for the biosphere to become what it is today. During this period, countless species have appeared and disappeared, and they have also experienced various reshuffles and restarts. Human beings are the biggest beneficiaries of this round.

Of course, the extinction of one or two species cannot destroy the entire body size, but their extinction warns of huge changes in the environment. At present, humans have no way to repair the damage of the biosphere out of thin air, so avoiding its continued deterioration is already a good practice.

Bi Fang believes that in the future, human beings will definitely explore a development method that is more beneficial to themselves and the biosphere.

As soon as the words fell, the young polar bear accidentally tripped and fell to the ground because it was chasing too fast. It rolled several times, and its fluffy hair was covered with dry snow.

The mother polar bear finally noticed her naughty child, turned around and bit the back of the cub's neck, shook it a few times, and helped it stand up again after shaking off the snow.

The bears, one big and one small, continued to walk towards the distance.

The audience who saw the same scene laughed even more. Many female fans felt that their hearts were going to melt. The little bear is so cute.

And more, they are still discussing what Bi Fang said just now.

[Not long ago, the Yangtze River white slugs were also completely extinct]

[I first met the Yangtze River white slug in a text called Living Fossils. It was an endangered species at the time, but it is gone now, which is a pity]

[Each species has its own unique advantages. For example, artemisinin is extracted from Artemisia annua, and each species has the potential to bring huge benefits to humans. Human beings protect animals not only for the sake of kindness and morality, but also to protect themselves, so as to give themselves an extra way out in the uncertain future crisis. 】

[For human beings, it is the evil result of destroying the environment, but human beings will not become sinners. Natural selection, survival of the fittest. Human beings destroying the environment will gradually make them no longer the fittest ones, so they will protect nature. 】

mid-january.

Bi Fang has survived in the North Pole for more than 90 days, and there is less than a week left before the final end.

Surviving in the wilderness for three months is the longest task Bi Fang has ever done, and his image is completely different from when he first came here.

Hair that has not been treated for a long time does not look oily because it is often washed, but it still looks a bit sloppy because it is too long.

This is unavoidable, and Bi Fang can simply shave off some, but in the cold arctic, this is completely unnecessary. On the contrary, thick hair can still keep heat to a certain extent.

The overall weight has also decreased to a certain extent. Although hunting has been carried out during this period, it has inevitably decreased, but the decrease is not much, and it is still maintained at about 80 kg, which is probably the state before gaining weight.

Come and go, nothing changes, everyone is happy.

This further proves that Bi Fang's survivability is indeed at the top of human beings.

In the same program in the previous life, the environment was not even as bad as Bi Fang. In the forest, almost all the contestants lost a lot of weight, and sometimes even lost dozens of catties directly, which can be called terrifying.

But this actually only shows that the contestants are not capable enough. After all, if they must lose weight after surviving in the North Pole for a hundred days, then the Inuit would have been extinct long ago.

But Bi Fang was only a little uncomfortable in the early stage, and quickly controlled his living state in the later stage, and entered a stable living environment.

From one environment to another, he can still live like a native, or even better, all this shows Bi Fang's ability.

He has the ability to survive in one of the harshest environments on earth for a long time, and he even has enough money to feed six big dogs!

Sled dogs eat more than people. In other words, Bi Fang can even feed ten people by himself!

This horrific conclusion made everyone realize something.

If it really comes to the doomsday environment, as long as the meteorite does not hit the earth and destroy the entire planet at once, this guy will definitely be the last person alive, and he can even bring others to live with him.

Today, Bi Fang went out as usual. He put on a snow-white scarf, greeted six sled dogs, gently closed the wooden door, and put the latch on.

In the uninhabited Arctic, there was no need for such a thing, until after the Arctic wolves attacked once, Bi Fang thought it necessary to install one to prevent the sled dogs from running out suddenly.

After plugging in the wooden bolts, the cabin trembled slightly. The smoked rabbits hanging on the edge of the cabin swayed a few times. The snow on the edge of the roof rustled down. There was a blizzard some time ago, and the top of the wooden roof was completely covered by snowflakes. Yes, but the inclination angle is too large, and the snow is not thick.

Seeing the swaying smoked rabbit meat made the sled dogs salivate, Bi Fang looked up and patted his forehead.

Forgot to put them in.

If you don't take them back to the house, you may be eaten by something when you come back.

Putting away the smoked rabbit meat on the edge and putting it in the house, Bi Fang drove the sled and set off again, traveling on the vast ice field and witnessing more scenery.

The temperature is still very low, only about minus 30 degrees, but compared to the minus 60 degrees in the snowstorm some time ago, it can already be called warm.

That period of time was truly terrifying, with the low temperature of minus 60 degrees, Bi Fang felt as if his own soul was about to freeze.

The surrounding environment is still the same gray and white, but Bi Fang does not feel lonely and monotonous.

Even on the eternal ice field, new life and new things will appear every day.

Every morning is different.

Every life has a fresh story.

The wind brings the seeds of the story, and time germinates them.

Bi Fang enjoys this kind of life and does not find it difficult.

Of course, this kind of living security comes from Bi Fang's strong ability to survive. If it were another person, it would be very difficult just to survive, let alone experience the beauty of it.

Normal people who come to the North Pole to survive can feel the cruelty of nature and the harsh environment, so that they cry in despair.

It stands to reason that the sun should rise in these two days. I don't know if it will happen.

In mid-January, it is already the time when the polar night will disappear.

Bi Fang, who was driving a dog sled, said to himself that he has been wandering on the ice field for the past two days. There are no hills or forests here, and it is endless, so that he can see the rising sun for the first time.

From polar night to polar day, the experience is absolutely extraordinary.