Xiang Yang used both hands to pry the cracked abalone in his hand apart.
The sea lion stared at Xiang Yang's palm with its eyes rolling around, and its round body suddenly stood up. It placed its front legs on Xiang Yang's lower abdomen, and looked at Xiang Yang eagerly with its big round black eyes.
To be precise, the sea lion looked at the abalone meat in Xiang Yang's hand, just like a dog carrying a sausage to its owner, and then watching the owner peel the sausage, and even though it was obviously very greedy, it still watched the owner eat it first.
Xiang Yang smiled and thought to himself that there were plenty of shrimps, crabs and scallops in this sea area, so why did this sea dog have to eat abalone? However, his hands were not slow at all. He directly took the abalone meat out of the abalone shell and put it into the mouth of the cute sea dog.
The sea lion immediately raised its head and bit the abalone meat. It chewed it vigorously for a few times, then raised its neck and swallowed the abalone meat whole.
After eating, the sea lion was still not satisfied. It continued to scratch Xiang Yang with its front paws and looked at him eagerly.
"I'm being relied on!" Xiang Yang thought to himself, but his hand gently stroked the sea lion's head. He really thought that this little guy in front of him who knew how to act cute was very adorable and as smart as a dog.
But abalone is definitely not something that can be fed to sea lions. The abalone Xiang Yang caught were all natural abalone with three or four heads. If they were used as dog food, then this dog food would be too expensive.
Fortunately, sea lions' food is not limited to monotonous abalone, they eat almost everything.
In fact, this is understandable. The number of abalone is so scarce. If the fur seal population only ate abalone, they would have been extinct for many years.
Xiang Yang looked around and soon found a clam shell larger than his palm.
Xiang Yang swam directly towards the clam shell, and the sea lion followed closely behind him.
Soon Xiang Yang and the sea lion swam to the clam shell that was bigger than a palm.
The sea lion was very excited when he saw the clam shell. He kept circling around it and occasionally raised his front paws to pat the clam shell, as if to say to Xiang Yang, "Help me pry it open quickly."
Xiang Yang smiled, picked up a fist-sized smooth pebble from the side and handed it to the sea dog.
Xiang Yang actually wanted to see how sea seals use tools. He had read in textbooks before that sea seals love to eat sea urchins and often use tools to pry open the hard shells of sea urchins. Xiang Yang found this incredible.
In Xiang Yang's understanding, the only animals that can use tools seem to be primates. It would be hard for Xiang Yang to believe that sea lions can use tools unless he saw it with his own eyes.
The sea lion looked at the pebbles that Xiang Yang handed over and wrinkled its nose slightly, seeming to be very dissatisfied that Xiang Yang didn't help it open the clam shell.
The sea lion threw a pebble and kicked it far away with its hind legs.
Xiang Yang was stunned. Where was the tool he had agreed to use? Not only did he throw the pebble away, he also kicked it. What kind of operation was this
Under Xiang Yang's puzzled gaze, the sea lion picked up the clam shell with its two front paws and staggered towards Xiang Yang awkwardly.
"Uh." Xiang Yang made a sound of "uh." It turned out that this little guy was still plotting against him!
Xiang Yang found it a little funny to see the sea lion holding a big clam shell with a pitiful face and looking at him in an extremely silly and clumsy manner. It looked very much like the female classmate who asked Xiang Yang to help her unscrew the bottle cap when he was in school.
“Pah.”
Maybe the clam shell was too smooth, and the sea lion failed to hold it firmly, so the shell fell off its front limbs.
The sea lion stopped picking up clam shells and just raised its head and looked at Xiang Yang innocently. It looked as pitiful as it could be, just like a dog watching its owner eat. It was also very hungry, but the owner didn't give it any food.
Was Xiang Yang amused by the sea lion? It was obvious that it didn't want to do anything, but it had to pretend to be pitiful.
But what can we do? Fur seals are born cute, and being cute is their nature.
Xiang Yang bent down to pick up the clam shell, smiled and teased the sea lion for a while, then took out the butterfly knife he carried with him and pried it hard at the gap of the clam shell, and immediately pried the clam shell open.
The clam shell was pried open, and the sea lion suddenly became anxious, holding on to Xiang Yang and standing up.
The little guy is so greedy.
Xiang Yang smiled and handed the pried open clam shell to the sea dog.
The sea seal took the clam shell and swallowed it immediately in big gulps. Their sense of taste is somewhat similar to that of a cat. Things that taste fishy to humans taste delicious in their mouths.
Soon? The whole clam shell was wolfed down by the sea lion.
After eating the clam shells, the sea lion might be full. It was seen lying flat on the ground with its belly facing up and its front legs drooping, just like a pet dog acting cute.
Xiang Yang ignored it and turned to walk away.
When the sea lion saw Xiang Yang leaving, it immediately got up from the ground and followed Xiang Yang with its round belly.
Xiang Yang let the sea lion follow him and searched carefully for abalone around.
There are a lot of abalone in this sea area, and many of them are over ten centimeters in size. Although Xiang Yang just wasted some time teasing the sea lions, he caught several abalone in a short while.
At first, the sea lion was very excited to see Xiang Yang catching abalone, thinking that they were all for it to eat, and circled around Xiang Yang.
But gradually the sea lion discovered that this was not the case, because it saw Xiang Yang throw every abalone he caught into the net bag and had no intention of giving it to it.
Seeing this, the sea lion immediately became anxious and kept trying to pull Xiang Yang's net bag with its front paws.
How could this be possible? The things in the net bag were for Xiang Yang's future wife. If this little foodie ate them all, Xiang Yang would cry to death.
Then a magical and interesting scene happened.
Xiang Yang was seen wearing a diving suit, digging here and there, grabbing an abalone and throwing it into the net bag from time to time. A cute sea lion followed closely behind him, trying to get close to the net bag on Xiang Yang's waist from time to time. Whenever this happened, Xiang Yang would grab the sea lion's mouth and push it away.
Every time Xiang Yang held the sea lion's mouth, its limbs struggled desperately, but whenever Xiang Yang let go, the sea lion would immediately move closer to Xiang Yang again.
After repeating this several times, the sea lion finally realized that Xiang Yang would no longer give it abalone.
After understanding the situation, the sea lion stopped pestering Xiang Yang and ran to the side to play, but it didn't run far. It played alone a few meters away from Xiang Yang.
Xiang Yang smiled. He would have plenty of food to feed the sea lion when he got on the boat, except for this abalone.
If the sea lion wants to eat abalone, it can catch it itself. Xiang Yang promises that he will not snatch any abalone caught by the sea lion itself, and he will even help the sea lion open the abalone shells for free.
Of course, it is very difficult for fur seals to catch abalone by themselves, because their forelimbs are not as flexible as those of humans, and abalone generally likes to hide in the cracks of rocks. The sticky force of abalone stuck to the rocks is amazing. Even if fur seals find abalone, it is difficult to use their forelimbs to pull the abalone out of the cracks in the rocks.