The water in Antarctica looks very clear, as if there is nothing in the water.
In fact, there are a large number of algae both in sea water and in ice.
In Antarctica, diatoms measured in microns can be considered relatively large algae, because there are algae in Antarctica that are smaller than diatoms.
Take ice algae, for example.
Ice algae is a type of algae unique to Antarctica. It has only one cell and is generally distributed in all parts of the ice layer or concentrated in one part. It is a very rare biological community that can thrive in ice.
This is also an important reason why Antarctic krill generally like to stay under the ice, because as long as there are large floating ice, there will be no shortage of ice algae.
"Hmm?" Xiang Yang suddenly raised his head.
In the sky, two large birds were seen circling and falling towards this side. Their feathers were as white as snow from head to body, with only their wings and backs being black.
"Oh my god, what a big bird! Is this an Antarctic eagle?" Fang Youqun said with shining eyes.
Xiang Yang narrowed his eyes. "This is a black-backed European bass. It can be found throughout the Southern Hemisphere. It is known as the cockroach of birds. It has a very high adaptability to temperature and can survive from minus thirty degrees to thirty degrees. There are only about one million pairs of black-backed European bass in the world, and 10,000 to 20,000 of them live in the Antarctic."
The black-backed penguin is the biggest natural enemy of the penguin.
It’s not that two black-backed penguins can defeat so many penguins. Black-backed penguins mainly feed on carrion, and fighting is not their strong point.
The reason why the black-backed owl has become the biggest natural enemy of penguins is that it likes to attack penguin cubs and sometimes even steal penguin eggs.
"Is this also a seagull? I thought it was an eagle, it's so big." Fang Youqun said in surprise.
Xiang Yang glanced at Fang Youqun and said, "This is the largest flying bird in Antarctica and Europe, and the king of flying birds in the world. Do you think it is big?"
The black-backed parrot is the true king of flying birds. Traveling thousands of miles a day is like a piece of cake for it. It can fly for days without landing and can even fly around the entire Antarctic continent. At the same time, the black-backed parrot is also a master of gliding. It can glide in the sky for several hours without flapping its wings, relying solely on air currents.
In the past, there was a widely circulated story.
There is a kind of bird that has no feet and will not land on the ground. It has been flying since birth and sleeps in the wind when it is tired. This is the black-backed otter. Of course, the story uses a more exaggerated technique.
However, the black-backed otter does spend most of its life wandering on the sea. It needs to wander on the sea for four to seven years before returning to its birthplace to reproduce.
A group of people looked up eagerly at the two black-backed eagles in the sky. In the sky, the wings of the two black-backed eagles sometimes formed symmetrical waves and flashed gracefully, and sometimes formed a straight line and glided lightly. They were quieter than eagles and as free and easy as Saker Falcons.
The two black-backed otter circled in the sky for several minutes before landing on the flagpole on top of an ocean-going mother ship.
The black-backed owl landing on the flagpole looks like a swan, and also like a white crane, a real free and easy crane.
"Wow, he actually landed on my boat." Gao Chuang laughed.
Xiang Yang could not laugh, but secretly thought that he was in trouble.
The black-backed owl is a kind of bird that particularly likes to steal eggs. In addition to its staple food of various mollusks and various rotten corpses, its favorite food is various bird eggs.
Moreover, the black-backed otter has a very bad reputation among birds. The black and white coloration of them blends easily with the surrounding environment, making it difficult for prey to spot them. Therefore, their chances of successfully stealing bird eggs are extremely high. Even penguins are often fooled by them.
"Chiu—"
As expected.
The next moment, Xiang Yang heard a loud, low, and endlessly angry voice. Then, a huge dark gray Steller's sea eagle shot out from the top of the cabin not far from the ocean-going mothership like a sharp sword and headed straight for the two black-backed eagles on the flagpole.
Steller's sea eagles have strong adaptability to the environment and are good flyers. They can even reach Europe from my country's northeast region, across Western Siberia and East and West Siberia.
After entering Antarctica, the two Steller's sea eagles were extremely low-key, basically hiding in the compartment on the top of Xiang Yang's cabin and not coming out.
As a result, this time, they actually encountered a black-backed eagle, and the two Steller's sea eagles immediately became angry.
The female eagle did not dare to leave the nest, but the male eagle was not so scrupulous. It flapped its wings vigorously and flew to a height of dozens of meters in an instant. Then it folded its wings upward and rushed down with its two huge and sharp claws towards the place where the two black-backed eagles were.
Xiang Yang suddenly became anxious.
These two black-backed European bass are really good at courting death.
The Steller's sea eagle is hatching its chicks. How could the Steller's sea eagle not be angry if it appeared within its field of vision at this time
"Shit, is this a Steller's sea eagle?" Gao Chuang rubbed his eyes, almost thinking he was seeing things.
Xiang Yang nodded with a dark face. He couldn't hide it anymore, so he had to selectively say, "I once fed a Steller's sea eagle. Later, the Steller's sea eagle stayed on my boat and refused to leave. It treated me as a free canteen and later built an eagle's nest on the top of my cabin."
"Breeding offspring?" Gao Chuang asked.
Xiang Yang nodded.
"Then these two black-backed Europeans are dead." Gao Chuang immediately said with regret.
Although the black-backed waterfowl is the largest flying bird, no matter how big a bird is, it is still a bird. In fact, it can only be considered a medium-sized waterfowl, and the largest body length is only about 70 centimeters.
The Steller's sea eagle is considered large among eagles. If the two black-backed eagles had not landed, the Steller's sea eagle might not have been able to catch up with them. But now that they have landed and the Steller's sea eagle has flown over them, it is basically impossible to escape their clutches.
The two black-backed Europeans were still in a daze.
They smelled a strong fishy smell here, so they flew over here to see if there was any food.
As a result, as soon as we landed, we encountered the king of the sky, the Steller's Sea Eagle.
The two black-backed eagles immediately spread their wings and fled in the opposite direction of the Steller's sea eagle.
However, it was too late.
The Steller's sea eagle used the force of the dive to instantly fly above one of the black-backed eagles, and then grabbed the black-backed eagle's back with its claws.
Immediately, feathers flew everywhere, the black-backed fish screamed, and its body fell vertically towards the sea.
The Steller's sea eagle refused to give in and flapped its wings again, quickly chasing after the other black-backed eagle.
"Hurry, the black-backed otter is not dead yet. Drive the lifeboat and rescue it from the sea." Gao Chuang immediately gave orders to the people around him.