Antarctic fierce penguin observation record

Ruan Xingyuan

Woke up early the next morning and smuggled the little penguin back to the studio.

The little penguin was still sound asleep in his arms, Ruan Xingyuan had two dark circles under his eyes, when he got to the studio, he closed the door, pulled out the chair and lay down directly.

The little penguins hanging on him didn't wake up either, and each of them slept until after nine o'clock.

After waking up to check the unread messages, Ruan Xingyuan went to Yao Feishen's place to fetch a fish tank.

Pushing open the door of the studio, the moment the fish came into the studio, the little penguin who smelled fishy jumped up and ran over.

"Can I have some of that guy's fish every day?" The little penguin opened its two bright black round eyes and tiptoed into the fish tank.

The silver light flickered in the fish tank, and the small fish flicked their tails, leaving a trail on the water surface and disappearing quickly.Their tails swung quickly, and the meat looked fresh and tender, and the little penguins were so greedy that they stretched out their heads and plunged into the water.

Ruan Xingyuan didn't know what Yao Feishen thought, but seeing his love for little penguins, "It should be."

The little penguin patted its fins happily, "Then can I ask for more?"

"What's the matter, isn't it enough?"

Ruan Xingyuan looked down into the fish tank.The entire fish tank placed on the ground is almost full of small fish, if this is not enough to eat, the food intake of the little penguin is really scary.

"I want to save some for other geese." The little penguin scratched the water surface with its beak, turned to look at the computer screen, and called softly.

On the shimmering screen, the adult penguins gather together and chirp in a low voice.Looking around, there are bustling adult penguins standing on Lu Yuan ice, guarding their children.The little penguin raised its head and howled. Hearing their voices, the adult penguin slowly lowered its beak and secreted a small amount of food with difficulty.

The penguin fathers are almost half as thin as when they first arrived on the edge of the ice.But the future has not yet been determined, and they may continue to lose weight like this.

It has been more than 100 days now, and the father penguin has to provide food not only for himself, but also for his cubs, and the stock is no longer enough.So that the penguin father and cubs are often hungry.

Big and small penguins opened their beaks to call. Ruan Xingyuan could not understand the calls of these penguins, but as he has studied penguin behavior for many years, it is not difficult to guess the time when male penguins bring their babies. They and the penguin chicks have also been caught in the plight of food shortages.

There is a lack of food near the continental margin ice, and the ice layer is deep.Just a few days ago, a group of seals came around the continental ice.The skua's catastrophe is not over, but new natural enemies appear again, all this makes the survival of the penguins reach a difficult point.

"They're all very hungry." The little penguin looked up at Ruan Xingyuan eagerly.

As one of the penguins, Little Penguin's world has always been surrounded by such voices, but more recently.

From the time he returned to Papa Penguin, such voices have been heard continuously on Lu Yuanbing.

In the penguin flock, skuas stared at the cubs, while seals chased and intercepted them. The sea was far away from the ice at the edge of the land, and the penguin fathers didn’t even dare to leave, and went to the sea to look for food.

However, the ice near the continental margin is so deep that emperor penguins cannot penetrate it.

If the mother penguins don't come back, they may be starving to death.

But the female penguins have not returned for a long time.

As female penguins, they were already hungry after giving birth, but in order to survive, they had to walk more than 40 kilometers to find sea areas with a lot of fish resources.They desperately needed a good meal and went home with food for their husbands and children.

During this period, the seals are everywhere, and may emerge from a hole in the ice at any time to devour the female penguin.A dead female penguin starves to death on the continental margin ice before her husband and cubs can wait for her return.

Still, female penguins look forward to openings in the ice.That means, they have a chance to have a good meal.Going down from the hole on the ice to the bottom of the sea, you can catch fish. If you are lucky, you don't encounter seals, and they don't have to go hungry to find food for the rest of the journey.

But there are not many such situations. In most cases, there are seals waiting below the cave entrance.They had to give up food and endured hunger to embark on a journey to find food.

Now the female penguins do not know when they will return, but the penguins waiting on the ice at the edge of the continent can no longer bear it.

Ruan Xingyuan's heart was tugging.Before he came, he had already made a guarantee, signed a guarantee letter, and made an oath: he would never do anything that would affect the survival of the penguin race, and would not interfere with the Antarctic food chain.This is the most basic and important rule for a biological researcher.

Therefore, despite countless times of heartache and the departure of fragile lives, he has never surpassed the promise he made.

"Sorry." Ruan Xingyuan avoided the little penguin's eyes, lowered his eyes to hide the expression in them, "I can't."

The studio fell silent.

Ruan Xingyuan thought the little penguin would be angry, so he waited for a while.Immediately afterwards, I heard the sound of "crashing" in the water. I turned my head and saw that the little penguin had already started to eat fish.

"..." Although he felt that the little penguin was a bit big-hearted, Ruan Xingyuan was secretly relieved that he didn't get angry with him.

Lu Yuan's cry on the ice lasted for a long time.

On the screen, the voices of several penguin cubs gradually faded, they were really hungry.

The father penguin bent his neck and lowered his beak, but the beak opened for a long time, but nothing fell out.

They themselves have been hungry for a long time, and the orange-yellow feathers on the sides of their necks are no longer as bright as before.The little penguins have grown to half of their father's belly, and they need more and more food. The father penguins no longer have enough food to feed their children.

The big and small penguins in the penguin colony often call to the distance, longing for the familiar response from the end of the road.

Looking from a distance, the end of the road is pale, and there are no living things to be seen, only occasionally a few seals make holes getting closer and closer to the continental ice, wandering dangerously around the penguin colony.

"I'm not full." The little penguin looked up at Ruan Xingyuan.

The little penguin has grown up a bit recently, but it is still not tall, not even reaching half of Ruan Xingyuan's calf, far inferior to other penguin cubs on the continental ice.

Now, the little penguin's fins are attached to its belly, which is swollen from eating and looks like a chubby ball.

Ruan Xingyuan squatted down, poked the little penguin's stomach with his fingers, and exclaimed, "It's so big that it's bulging and still not full?"

The little penguin slapped his finger off, and said fiercely: "Don't touch the goose's belly, the goose is still growing, so of course it eats a lot!"

"Okay then." Ruan Xingyuan skillfully opened the chat box of Yao Feishen, the food supplier, and sent the little penguin's needs.

"He asked how much do you pay?" Ruan Xingyuan glanced at the empty tank, then looked worriedly at the little penguin's belly.

It won't hold up, will it?

The little penguin patted his belly: "I still need a tank."

Yao: Some geese are really wrong.

Little Penguin: Fish!

Yao: ...