Xiang Yang looked surprised.
Sea lions are very greedy creatures. If there is enough food, they will not stop until their bellies are full. They will never share the food they catch with their companions just because there is enough food.
If there is a food shortage, sea lions will even fight with their companions over food.
Biologists have never explicitly documented that sea lions would bring food to visit their injured companions.
Xiang Yang stood up from the humpback whale, wanting to witness this miraculous scene.
But what Xiang Yang saw next was even more surprising than the sea lion sharing food with its companions.
The sea lions that caught the fish were seen dividing into two groups on the sea. One group flapped their fins and swam towards the male whale, while the other group twisted their fat bodies and swam clumsily to the female whale.
The male whale sank slightly and looked at the sea lion in front of him in confusion.
The female whale let out a threatening cry.
The sea lion swayed its fat body and, with a flattering look on its face, it passed the fish in its mouth to the two humpback whales and let go.
These fish had been bitten to death by the sea lions. As soon as the sea lions let go, some of them slowly sank to the bottom of the sea, while others turned over and floated on the surface of the sea.
Both humpback whales stared at the sea lions and ignored the fish.
When the sea lions saw that the humpback whale did not eat the fish, they immediately became anxious. Several sea lions immediately dived back to the bottom of the sea, scooped up the sinking fish, brought them back to the surface and put them next to the humpback whale's big mouth.
After repeating this several times, the male whale finally opened his mouth and swallowed all the fish in one gulp.
“Well!”
When the sea lions saw the male whale opening its mouth and eating the fish they had caught, they shouted excitedly. The injured sea lion on the male whale's back was so excited that it slapped the humpback whale's back with its pectoral fins.
"Woo-" The female whale let out a loud cry, swung her tail, and swallowed the fish in front of her in one gulp.
The sea lions immediately dived back to the bottom of the sea, and when they came up again, they all had a big or small fish in their mouths.
"These guys." Xiang Yang laughed out loud as he watched the two humpback whales playing with the sea lions in a short while. It turned out that the sea lions caught fish just to please the two humpback whales!
It's true that there is no acquaintance without fighting. Xiang Yang could see that both the sea lions and the humpback whales were really excited. That excitement came completely from their inner instincts and was not pretended at all.
Xiang Yang patted the male humpback whale's head, signaling it to swim towards the fishing boat.
The male whale shook his huge head and sank his body into the water. When he surfaced again, there was a three-meter-long sea lion on his body.
The sea lion held a spherical object in its mouth and used its pectoral fins to paddle towards Xiang Yang, then raised its head and presented the object in its mouth to Xiang Yang.
"Is this for me?" Xiang Yang pointed at himself and said happily.
The sea lion didn't know whether it understood Xiang Yang's words or not, but it raised its head higher after Xiang Yang spoke.
Xiang Yang reached out and took the round ball from the sea lion's mouth, then touched the sea lion's head.
The sea lion immediately responded to Xiang Yang with an excited snort.
After teasing the sea lion for a while, Xiang Yang looked at the object in his hand. It was a sea urchin with long thorns on its hard shell.
To be honest, it was also the first time for Xiang Yang to observe a live sea urchin up close.
Sea urchins like to live on the seabed with lush seaweed and high salinity. Sea urchins are timid by nature and like to hide in the cracks of reefs during the day and only come out of the cracks of rocks at night to move around and look for food. Even if Xiang Yang passed by, he might not be able to find him.
Sea urchins have a strong reproductive capacity, but too many sea urchins will not have a good effect on the entire marine ecosystem, because the main food of sea urchins is seaweed. If there are enough sea urchins, they can even eliminate all the seaweed in the entire sea area.
The sea lion kept staring at Xiang Yang as he looked at the sea urchin, as if it would cry out in grievance if Xiang Yang didn't eat it the next moment.
"You guy." Xiang Yang noticed the look in the sea lion's eyes and rubbed its head with a smile.
The way to eat sea urchin is very simple. You can use a sharp stone to pry open its hard shell, take out the bright yellow tender meat inside and swallow it directly. The taste is not very delicious, but the medicinal value is very high.
Eating sea urchins can help reduce phlegm and swelling. People who often smoke and stay up late, if they feel chest cramps when they wake up in the morning, can try eating a few sea urchins to relieve this symptom.
However, Xiang Yang really didn't dare to swallow the sea urchin directly.
First of all, the sea urchin in Xiang Yang's hand is the spiny sea urchin that lives in the coral reefs of the South my country Sea. This kind of sea urchin has poison in its body and cannot be eaten directly like the Liao sea urchin.
Xiang Yang could clearly see that there was a barb at the end of each stinger on the sea urchin, which was where the venom was injected. Although the venom of the ring-spined sea urchin was not very strong, redness, swelling and pain would definitely occur when it was pricked.
Xiang Yang was wearing diving leather gloves so he was not afraid of being pricked by the poisonous stingers, but he really couldn't bring himself to crack the sea urchin open and eat the sea urchin meat inside raw.
"Bang!" Xiang Yang smashed the sea urchin hard on the diving tank behind him, and the sea urchin's hard shell immediately cracked.
After peeling the shell and taking out the meat, Xiang Yang placed a ball of bright yellow sea urchin meat in front of the injured sea lion.
Xiang Yang thought that the injured sea lion would refuse and be polite before eating the sea urchin meat, but as soon as the sea urchin meat was handed over to him, the injured sea lion swallowed it in one gulp, then smacked its lips and looked at Xiang Yang eagerly as if asking if there was any more.
Xiang Yang smiled. These animals were really straightforward. Their thoughts were written all over their faces without any shyness.
A group of sea lions and two humpback whales swam playfully towards the fishing boat, and the back of the injured sea lion gradually became swollen.
Although its back became swollen, the sea lion did not seem to be in as much pain as before. After lying on the male humpback whale's back for a while, it paddled its fins and slid into the sea.
In order to avoid any accidents, Xiang Yang dived into the sea and followed closely behind him.
It has to be said that the sea lion's ability to recover is really strong. In just a short while, it was able to swim again on the seabed, although the swimming speed was very slow. When Xiang Yang twisted his waist occasionally, he could clearly see that the sea lion was grimacing in pain due to the injury, but it was indeed able to move normally. If a human was hit by the fin of a humpback whale, even if he was rescued, he would probably be unable to get out of bed for two or three months.
Soon, Xiang Yang swam back to the sea where the fishing boat was located with a group of sea lions and two humpback whales.
The sea lions were so happy when they saw the huge school of fish under the sea that they dived into the seabed one by one.
A group of ferocious sea lions broke into the school of fish, and the fish swimming leisurely on the seabed suddenly became panic-stricken. The crew members who were salvaging pearls on the seabed keenly discovered the changes on the seabed and immediately swam to the surface.