Because of its special environment, Ocean University is actually a tourist destination in itself.
In terms of fame, the cherry blossoms at Ocean University are certainly not as famous as those at Wuhan University, but in terms of the number of people visiting, there are really a lot.
The Ocean University’s aquarium houses many marine creatures for tourists to visit, but the Ocean University’s aquarium is not a profit-making organization. It does not sell tickets, hold performances, or sell souvenirs. Where does the money to keep those marine creatures come from
Almost more than half of the funds for raising those marine creatures are earned by sea lions.
How do you make money
Of course I ate it.
A small box of sardines weighing two taels costs 30 yuan. As long as you are willing to feed an adult male sea lion, it can eat two hundred kilograms a day and still slap its belly loudly in front of you.
Sea lions in the wild have a larger appetite. Even if an adult sea lion does nothing, it will eat at least 40 kilograms of marine fish a day. If their activity level increases a little, they can even eat 120 kilograms of food a day. They are true ocean devourers.
It is also worth mentioning that sea lions usually swallow the food whole without chewing it. They can even swallow a large fish weighing three or four pounds in one bite. Like chickens, they also need to eat some small stones into their stomachs to aid digestion.
This is also the reason why Xiang Yang thinks sea lions generally do not bite people. When they hunt, they like to swallow the food whole. With the human body, it is obviously not something that sea lions can swallow in one bite, so humans are not on the sea lions' menu.
Since humans are no longer on their diet, sea lions have no reason to bite people.
However, there have indeed been reports of sea lions injuring people in the news.
Xiang Yang guessed that the sea lions that hurt people were either doing it in self-defense. This is the instinct of all animals. Even rabbits will bite when they are angry!
Or the injured person accidentally entered the sea lion's territory. Most sea lions are cruel and exclusive. They will attack any of their own kind who enter their territory, not to mention humans.
Especially when the sea lions are nursing their pups.
Sea lions raise their young in a somewhat similar way to penguins.
Sea lions from multiple groups will gather all their pups together to raise them.
The sea lion pup rearing base captured by scientists is very spectacular.
The group of sea lion pup rearing bases is very large, with the cubs mingling densely together and often making loud roars.
Adult male sea lions are responsible for guarding the surrounding area.
The female sea lions are responsible for going out to find food.
Scientists speculate that female sea lions have a way to successfully identify their pups, but after foraging and returning to their habitat, female sea lions can always quickly find their pups.
Female sea lions will take good care of their own cubs, but they are extremely cruel and ruthless to other cubs.
They often take advantage of other female or male sea lions not paying attention, and fiercely pick up other sea lion pups and throw them far away.
If this scene were seen by a male sea lion or the mother of the young sea lion, a fierce fight would immediately break out. However, even if they were bleeding, the sea lions still continue this tradition and never get tired of it.
Xiang Yang said: "You guys wait here, I'll go over and see if I can touch these sea lions."
Li Chao said: "Be careful."
Fang Youqun said, "Captain, I'll go."
Xiang Yang shook his head. "I'd better let me go. I'm more familiar with sea lions. If anything goes wrong, I can immediately withdraw. You don't know sea lions. Don't think it's greeting you when it opens its mouth to bite you."
In most cases, sea lions do not harbor any hostility towards humans.
And it is easy to tame.
Many diving and salvage organizations have trained sea lions.
Sea lions have excellent diving abilities and are great helpers for humans to salvage boats or objects.
Many coastal countries have people who train sea lions to complete salvage tasks that divers cannot complete, such as asking sea lions to retrieve something from the deep sea where divers cannot reach.
Once, a US special forces unit accidentally dropped a rocket on the seabed during an experiment.
After several American salvage companies sent divers to salvage the body without success, someone came up with the idea of using sea lions to salvage the body.
Sure enough, after a specially trained sea lion arrived at the sea area, it took only one minute to retrieve the rocket that had sunk to the bottom of the sea.
"Well—"
Among the four sea lions, the largest one saw Xiang Yang coming and immediately made a loud roar similar to the mooing of a cow, but the sound was louder and more penetrating than the ordinary mooing of a cow.
Xiang Yang stopped immediately.
This was a very bad signal. The male sea lion was using its roar to warn Xiang Yang not to come any closer.
Xiang Yang stopped and spread his hands, saying, "Don't be nervous, we have no ill intentions."
"Well—"
“Well!”
“What!!!”
However, Xiang Yang's words did not work.
The four sea lions became alert, staring at Xiang Yang with a fierce look, growling continuously in his throat. The roars came one after another, while his four fins slid and his body moved closer to the sea.
Xiang Yang put down his hands helplessly, he knew that he had failed in his attempt to get close to these sea lions.
Untamed sea lions, when young, like to get close to humans and often follow fishing boats or simply crawl onto the beach to look for humans.
Once sea lions reach adulthood, they are not so willing to approach humans. They usually keep their distance when they see humans and are very wary of humans.
The four sea lions fell back for a distance. Seeing that Xiang Yang did not catch up with them, the male sea lion in the lead immediately howled, turned around, and twisted its fat body like a big fat pig escaping from a slaughterhouse, roaring and fleeing into the sea.
Li Chao saw it and was filled with regret. "What a pity! These four great sea lions are gone. I was planning to build a sea lion pool in my hotel. Now they're gone."
Xiang Yang rolled his eyes. It would be a pity to keep them in the hotel. He wanted to tame them and take them to the beach on the other side of Qinglongwan for tourists to visit.
But it's no use saying anything now.
Xiang Yang turned around, looked at Li Chao and the others and said, "Going further, we will reach a more remote beach. I'm afraid no one has passed by there for several years. We encountered sea lions here, and it's not safe to go further. How about we turn back?"
Li Chao hesitated a little and turned to discuss something with Song Guoning.
"Brother Ning, do you think we should continue to move forward?"
Song Guoning smiled slightly, "I can do anything, no need to ask me, Mr. Li, just make your own decision."
Li Chao looked at Zhang Qicheng again, "Old Zhang, what do you think?"
Zhang Qicheng looked at Xiang Yang and said, "Listen to Brother Xiang. He knows this better than us."