Chapter 87 Killer Whale (XII)
After agreeing to "see you again", Yu Yiyun waved her pectoral fins to bid farewell to her dear grandmother, aunt, uncle and cousin.
In the vast ocean, he was able to find his true home whale, which further strengthened Little Fat Tiger's original idea:
Go to wider seas and swim in every ocean!
Combining the existing information, Yu Yiyun knew that her hope of finding her father's family was very slim.
Since he does not belong to the existing killer whale genotype, it is almost impossible to determine the race of his parents based on his appearance, language, and eating habits.
Moreover, unlike mother, father had never lived with little Hill for a single minute.
It is even possible that even the mother cannot tell what kind of killer whale the father is.
Under such circumstances, Yu Yiyun's wish to find her paternal family was nothing but a pipe dream.
Even so, Fat Tiger and his companions still decided to continue their journey!
Just like in the past twenty years, my grandma and aunt never gave up looking for my mom even though they knew there was little hope!
Finally, they waited for little Hill.
As the saying goes, if you keep thinking about it, there will be a response.
But before that, Yu Yiyun had to go somewhere else.
The Atlantic Ocean, the second largest ocean in the world, borders the Arctic Ocean to the north and the Southern Ocean to the south.
If you continue to swim westward or eastward along the ocean current, you can reach the world's largest ocean - the Pacific Ocean.
The Pacific Ocean, where little Fat Tiger sets out!
Feeling that the nearby waters were getting warmer and warmer, Yu Yiyun estimated that they had almost reached the latitude where the resident whales lived and should be very close to home.
After fooling around for so long, you should go home and report that you're safe, right?
"Hmm~"
The little fellow twisted his tail, blinked his eyes, and asked in a coquettish voice, "Can I go home to visit my relatives on the way?"
"Yeah." Okay.
"Chirp." Little guy, you are really a mama's boy.
Regardless of the ecological type, killer whales have rich emotions.
Even the whales who are transient and have no home around the world have the concept of "visiting relatives" and immediately agree to the pampering of a certain mama's boy whale.
I picked up this mama's boy, what else can I do?
Just pamper her!
Yu Yiyun, who is always young and never learns to find her way, took a long detour with the guidance of her brothers and finally arrived at the waters where the southern resident whales live.
Fat Tiger burst into tears: ...Wait, is my sense of direction so bad?
If he were to rely on himself, he would probably not be able to find his home even if he circled the world twice.
Before he set out to look for his family, he was first spotted by a familiar 'click' sound.
Accompanying the click sound, the family vanguard, Maria and Brother Dao, appeared again.
The killer whale's sonar system is so sensitive that it can lock onto objects the size of a coin from a long distance.
Although the cub has gained a lot of weight and its dorsal fin has become straight, it is very different from the poor little thing back then.
Maria still relied on 70% talent and 30% intuition to recognize the baby who had run away from home, and happily left her own baby behind and swam over.
baby whale: ???
Mommy, who is your biological child?
The ocean is really big, even if Yu Yijun just followed the stupid blackfin gang and took a swim in the northern waters.
Back to the starting point, half a year has passed and the baby whale is already over half a year old!
Yu Yiyun originally thought that newborn whale babies might be like human babies, with no memory and would have long forgotten who they are.
Who would have thought that, half a year later, Baby Whale still remembered the big brother who always praised him as "cute" and "well-behaved".
He swam over behind his mother, grunting, and greeted her in a baby voice from a distance.
"Chiu!" Little guy!
A six-month-old killer whale baby can make some simple pronunciations and first learns to call family members.
Although Baby Whale only spent a month with the little guy, the little guy would always be mentioned in family conversations for the next six months.
'Is the little guy doing well out there?'
'Did the little guy catch the dolphin?'
'Did the little guy find his kind?'
Over time, the baby whale became more familiar with the pronunciation of "little guy" than "bubble" and "zhuangzhuang".
Bubble and Zhuangzhuang were speechless.
After all, they were the two who talked about the little guy the most, and it was purely their own fault.
Now, the little guy and the sand sculpture black fin gang are back in the Pacific Ocean again. Bubble and Zhuangzhuang are so excited that they rush over and pester him to tell them about their "Ocean Adventures".
Yu Yiyun naturally remembered the agreement and collected many stories along the way.
When I see my friends, I immediately start to tell them about the sea lions on the North Coast, the seals and narwhals in the Arctic Circle, the herrings in Iceland, and the killer whales being chased by sperm whales in the Atlantic Ocean...
Bubble and Zhuangzhuang listened with great interest and occasionally asked a few cute little questions.
"Chirp?" Can seals whimper, just like you?
"Squeak!" Is herring delicious? I want to catch some next time!
"Chirp~" I've seen sperm whales, they're so big! But they swim very slowly, and only stupid whales will be chased by them.
"Squeak!" Yes, the Atlantic whale is a stupid whale! The little guy is an Atlantic whale, so he is so stupid.
"Hmm?" Yu Yiyun's defense was instantly broken.
Who says I'm stupid again?
Do you want to hear a story? ! !
“Chirp!”
“Squeak!”
Bubble and Zhuangzhuang immediately admitted their mistakes and loudly stated that the little guy was not a stupid whale.
The three giants, who hadn't been seen for a long time, were chatting happily when a large family group swam over.
The grandmother whale, who was still in good health, heard that the little one had found its relatives, and swam over quickly to inquire about the situation.
"Hmm..."
Although Yu Yiyun has let it go, she still cares about her grandmother's thoughts and stammers as she tells him that she is a "string whale" and has no real peers in the sea.
After hearing this, the grandmother whale did not despise the little fellow for his impure bloodline. Instead, she asked expectantly:
"Hmm?" Then could you be our child?
The same question was also asked excitedly by the silly blackfin gang after they learned that the little guy was a hybrid whale.
Yu Yiyun told them regretfully: It’s not likely.
Perhaps killer whales have no concept of genetic inheritance, but Yu Yiyun does.
Whether it is the Atlantic Type 2 killer whale, the transient whale, or the resident whale, they are all larger killer whales.
Fat Tiger, whose genes at least half belong to large killer whales, has been taking nutritional supplements for a year, but his body length is still much shorter than Zhuangzhuang.
The conclusion is obvious: the paternal genes are most likely from a small killer whale, or at least the genes of small killer whales are dominant.
Yu Yiyun explained her logic in a vague way, but she didn't expect the killer whale to understand.
Who would have thought that a killer whale with a brain weighing more than ten kilograms would have an ability to understand things that is even more terrifying than imagined.
In just twenty minutes, I understood genetic inheritance, which was a topic that biology class would cover for two semesters.
"Eeh!" I understand. Big killer whales give birth to big killer whales, and baby killer whales give birth to baby killer whales.
"Chirp!" The little guy was a killer whale of medium size.
"Oh~" Yeah, so he is the son of a big killer whale and a baby killer whale!
"Woo." Same as above.
Because Langzi's response was too simple, he was surrounded by several other teammates, who questioned whether he really understood it or was just trying to take advantage of the situation.
It looked like a class representative checking homework.
At the same time, resident whales, who do not communicate with the transient whales in common language, came to the same conclusion.
"Squeak." The little guy's mother is a big killer whale and his father is a small killer whale.
"Gu?" Where is the little killer whale?
The resident whales, whose ancestors had never left the Pacific Ocean, got the clue that the little guy's father was a killer whale, and they all expressed their willingness to go to other killer whale groups to find a home for him.
Yu Yiyun quickly stopped him and said that he would find Jiajing himself.
Before that, there is something more pressing.
"Hmm~"
Baby is hungry~
I haven't eaten salmon for several months and I'm craving it.
According to the law of conservation of destiny, Yu Yiyun arrived at the right time this time, as the king salmon, the favorite of the southern resident whales, were still in the ocean.
The salmon breeding season is approaching. In order to return to the breeding grounds, each salmon feeds itself to be fat and strong, just enough to save the fat tiger who comes home for a free meal.
When the family members heard that the baby was hungry, they quickly formed a team and prepared to catch as many salmon as possible to feed the baby.
But before they could make any move, a few uninvited guests arrived and couldn't wait any longer.
When the handsome guy and the foodie heard that the little guy wanted to eat salmon, their DNA started moving instantly.
After half a year of feeding, they have formed conditioned reflexes.
Whenever Yu Yiyun cried out for hunger, the four brothers would immediately rush to where the salmon gathered to catch them.
Transit whales eat mostly mammals and have little experience catching fish.
Faced with schools of salmon, they used the same tactics they used against dolphins:
Disperse the fish first.
"!!!"
The resident whale exploded!
Seeing what these stupid whales did, I was immediately furious.
You know, the way resident whales catch salmon is to first gather the fish as much as possible so that they can be caught in one net.
The silly blackfin gang dispersed the school of fish and tried to stun them with their tails.
But salmon are large and at their most active, so they are not so easily stunned by large numbers.
The blackfin gang worked for a long time but didn't catch many fish. Instead, they scared away all their prey.
A few big eggplants were stupid and unaware, and they happily carried the few salmon, ready to feed the little guy.
Before it could get close, it was hit head-on by an angry resident whale.
"Squeak!" What are you doing?
"Eh?" What are you crazy about?
"Buzz buzz!" You scared the fish away, what will the little guys eat?
"Hmm..." I don't understand what you are saying.
The two waves of killer whales bumped into each other, both feeling the other's temper, but they didn't know why.
After arguing for a long time, they turned to Fat Tiger at the same time.
"Chiu!" Little guy!
"Chiu!" Translation!
"...Hmm?"
Yu Yiyun, who was suddenly cueed, swam between two groups of killer whales and began to translate the boring and meaningless quarrel content.
"Oh, oh, oh!" Zhuangzhuang said that Zhong Er is a reckless guy and he doesn't like to be friends with killer whales like you.
"Boo." The middle school student said 'rebound'.
"Oh, oh, oh." Bubble said that the handsome boy was too ugly to be so big.
"Oh, oh, oh!" The handsome guy said that you can scold him, but you can't say he is ugly.
"Oh oh!" The prodigal son said you are so noisy.
"Hmm." Brother Dao agreed.
After listening to the little guy's translation, Brother Dao and Langzi looked at each other from a distance, and unexpectedly felt a sense of mutual sympathy, as if they were the same kind.
After a lot of clamor, the resident whales finally understood: the group of reckless passing whales wanted to catch fish to feed the little guy.
The passing whales also realized that they were suddenly angry because they had used the wrong method to catch fish and scared away the resident whales' dinner.
The misunderstanding was resolved, and both killer whales surrounded the little guy, chattering and praising him for being so awesome.
If Fat Tiger hadn't mastered the common language of killer whales, the stupid blackfin gang and the resident whale family would have started fighting in minutes!
Yu Yiyun felt shy because of their praise. She twisted her tail and whimpered. Suddenly, a strange idea popped into her mind.
"Hmm?" Have you ever thought about being able to communicate with each other before?
“Hmm.” The handsome guy answered immediately: I haven’t thought about it, because the resident whales are all mama’s boys.
"Squeak!" Zhuangzhuang said loudly: I never thought about it, grandma said that all tourist whales are bad whales!
Hearing the calls from both sides, the killer whales all looked at Yu Yijun, waiting for him to translate.
“……”Fat Tiger felt the pressure.
Help! How can I translate this?
It will destroy the harmony in the killer whale world that has been established with great difficulty.
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The sand sculpture blackfin party fully proves that killer whales can be "omnivorous".
Piscivorous killer whales can eat seals, and carnivorous killer whales can also eat fish.
Even Fat Tiger, whose ecotype is unknown, cannot be used as a reference.
But over the past six months, the foodie followed the little guy and ate a lot of fish, and never had diarrhea.
The waters where killer whales have long lived are almost free of sharks and dolphins.
When the transient whale comes to visit the resident whale, it can only change its diet to eat salmon.
It's like a foreigner who has to tame his stomach to accept "Looking Up at the Stars" and kimchi cheese.
The handsome boy and the middle-aged man ate foreign whale food on the first day, and they secretly muttered, "Can salmon fill you up?"
By the third day, everyone had already joined the salmon catching team!
Even though the two groups of killer whales do not speak the same language, they are both top hunting fins on the seabed.
Just catching salmon, as long as they have fins~
However, the resident whales believe that they are the fish-catching fins and should take the main position.
The passing whale dissed them, saying that they had never even caught a dolphin, and their skills must be inferior to his, so he had to turn the tables and avenge himself.
In the end, the two groups of killer whales didn't care about catching fish anymore, because they were arguing over meaningless topics like "who is a better hunter?"
"Ew!"
“Chirp!”
"Squeak! Squeak!"
Since they don’t speak the same language, quarrels aren’t exciting enough and often end up turning into fin-and-tail conflicts.
The big guys, weighing five or six tons on average, bumped into each other with their bellies bulging, trying their best to knock each other into a rolling state in the ocean, attracting the surrounding fish to come and watch the fun.
Salmon: ...I'm in a hurry, do you still want to eat me?
Whenever this happened, Langzi and Daoge would fall behind the team, watching their companions quarreling in silence, and then look at each other with sympathy.
From the looks in each other's eyes, they even suspected that they had given birth to the wrong whale.
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At the same time, Yu Yijun, who was supposed to act as a translator among the whales, was once again tempted by her friends and floated to the surface of the sea to rub the little man with the fat salmon that she had not yet finished eating.
Recently, I heard that Hill has returned to the resident whale group, and the nearby whale watching boat business has been booming.
The cloud mothers, who are worried about their babies, traveled thousands of miles to the Pacific Ocean and raised their binoculars to stare at the sea.
Whenever a fish appeared, they would shout "Hill" excitedly.
Over time, the clever killer whales even began to doubt:
Did the little people change the name of our race?
The name of the species is no longer called 'Killer Whale', but 'Hill'?
After much anticipation, the real Little Hill finally surfaced, and the first thing that appeared was its tall dorsal fin.
There were three whale-watching boats and a marine rescue ship parked nearby. People on the deck raised their binoculars at the same time to observe the straight dorsal fin.
"Oh, is that Little Hill?"
"No way? Is our Hill's dorsal fin... that straight?"
"I can tell at a glance that you're a fake mommy! Our baby's dorsal fin is so straight now~ It confuses the mommy~"
After the dorsal fin emerged, what appeared next was not a big black head, but a...
Uh, salmon hat?!
Seeing the killer whale with the salmon on its head, everyone was silent for a few seconds, trying to analyze the killer whale's intention of wearing the salmon on its head.
The accompanying animal expert pondered for a long time and came to the most reasonable conclusion:
"Well, it's probably his unfinished lunch."
“……” There was silence on the sea.
"Hmm~"
Little Hill raised his face and made a cute sound.
"Wow--!"
"Hill!!!"
The moment the little killer whale came out of the water, the entire sea area went crazy, and everyone shouted and screamed for Hill, treating him like a sea star.
Bubble and Zhuangzhuang were two minutes late in catching up, and they were the first to realize: after half a year, they could no longer catch up with the little guy.
Even though the little guy is so small, his swimming speed is much faster than theirs.
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Secondly, the two little killer whales clearly felt that the attitude of the two-legged creatures towards the little guys was completely different from that towards themselves.
"Chirp?" The little guy likes the little guy more. Why?
"Squeak?" Yes, why?
Two young killer whales swam to Yu Yiyun, chattering and demanding to know what was going on.
“…嘤.” This stumped Fat Tiger, and he didn’t know how to explain it to his companions.
Human society pays so much attention to little Hill, not only because he is cute, but also because Hill has iconic significance:
If he can adapt to the sea again, it means that all killer whales currently in captivity or even artificially bred may have the possibility of being released.
Therefore, whether for Hill or for more killer whales, Yu Yiyun must make the ocean and the whales accept her again!
Before Yu Yiyun could figure out what to say, something happened that made her friends jealous.
A few little people put on life jackets, jumped off the rescue boat, and paddled to the vicinity of the killer whale.
“Chirp~”
“Squeak~”
Bubble and Zhuangzhuang were very happy and immediately swam towards the little man.
You should know that although there is no record of wild killer whales causing human deaths, they will not show aggression towards humans.
But their huge bodies weighing several tons, sharp teeth and huge tails can easily blow away the little people if they just stretch their bodies.
Tourists who come to visit the killer whales only dare to stay on the boat and watch from a distance.
Apart from documentary photographers, the only two-legged animals who go into the water and have close contact with killer whales are ocean rescuers.
Zhuangzhuang was craving for air again, blowing bubbles around the boat, creating huge waves.
The lifeguards on board tried to keep their balance and avoid falling into the sea, while playing a high-frequency 'hissing' sound on the speakers.
This is a call that scientists recorded from the ocean after years of research, and it represents the meaning of expulsion.
As soon as the killer whale heard it, he knew: the two-legged animals were driving him away.
"Squeak!" Zhuangzhuang's defense was completely broken!
He swam away angrily, swishing his tail, cursing, "I'm leaving now. I won't play with you anymore!"
Bubble didn't understand why, so he retreated a few hundred meters and stared at Renmi curiously.
After driving away the "troublesome" killer whale, the rescuer immediately turned off the sound and approached Hill cautiously, for fear of disturbing the sensitive and timid baby.
Until they swam within ten meters, Hill was still floating there wearing the salmon hat, as if waiting for them obediently.
"Hello, Hill. Nice to meet you at last."
The man sitting among the lifeguards introduced himself with a gentle tone and a smile, "I'm a researcher at the Killer Whale Conservation Organization. You may not know this, but I've known you for a long time... I'm sorry, we have negotiated with the circus many times before, and the results were not ideal."
"Hmm?" Yu Yijun, wearing a salmon hat, tilted her head in confusion.
The researcher subtly understood what the little killer whale meant, and immediately skipped the meaningless narration and got straight to the point. "Hill, I heard that you have been living with humans for eight years, so you can understand what they say, right?"
"Ying!" Fat Tiger made a sound again, very proud~
More than just understanding human speech?
This person continued to babble on and on, and Fat Tiger was about to urge him to "speak up if you have something to say!"
"Sure enough, you are really smart!" The researcher said with relief, "It's like this, because your physical condition was not very good before, I want to collect some of your blood and conduct a detailed health check. At the same time, our research institute has many gene samples of killer whales. Maybe we can confirm your ecotype through comparison."
The researcher said, before tentatively reaching out and caressing the front of Hill's muzzle.
The lifeguard next to him was a little worried and whispered:
"It's too dangerous. Should we draw blood after anesthesia?"
"No, anesthetizing marine animals is too risky. If the dosage is not properly controlled, the killer whale may drown." The researcher smiled, "It's okay. Wild killer whales have no experience of killing humans. Besides, I have been following Little Hill for a long time. He has endured so much pain, but he has never lost control. He is still willing to get close to humans."
She turned to the orca, "Our Hill is a good boy~ right?"
"Hmm~"
“Many examples prove that humans can build trust with animals, especially highly intelligent animals,” the researcher said, before donning an oxygen mask and jumping into the water without hesitation, approaching the four-tonne creature that could be seriously injured by a mere flap of its tail.
The tourists on the whale-watching boat held their breath in anticipation. On the one hand, they envied the researchers for being able to have close contact with the whale cubs; on the other hand, they were afraid that Hill would lose control.
After all, drawing blood is painful, and some people are afraid of it.
As it turned out, they were worrying too much.
The experienced researcher found the vein on Hill's tail in just a few seconds and obtained the required blood sample using a portable sealed blood collector.
Such a sophisticated technique causes almost no pain to the killer whale.
Hill remained quiet throughout the whole process.
As if he was afraid of hurting the little guy, he even stopped breathing.
After the researcher finished taking blood, he touched the needle hole like coaxing a child, floated to the surface, exhaled the oxygen tube, and patted Hill's bare dorsal fin.
"Hill is so good. I will check you up as soon as possible. I hope you are healthy." The researcher paused and continued, "By the way, we rescued a female killer whale at the beginning of the year. She belongs to the North Atlantic Type 2 killer whale. She gave birth to two cubs nine years ago and one year ago. The younger cub is with her now, and the older cub was sold at a high price the year after it was born. We can reasonably infer that she may be your mother."
"Oh, oh, oh!" The originally well-behaved little killer whale suddenly became excited, twisting its tail and calling out loudly.
"Calm down, baby! Calm down!" the researcher hastily comforted him. "We are just guessing and need further confirmation. If she is really your mother, I want to tell you: Mom is fine. Even if there is a slight possibility, we will do our best to help her return to the ocean."
"Ah!" Hill excitedly turned around on the spot, splashing huge waves and directly overturning the boat.
Fortunately, the rubber boat had strong buoyancy and the lifeguard on it was well prepared and jumped into the sea to take refuge in advance.
Fat Tiger realized that he was in trouble, so he quickly dived into the water and helped them turn the rubber boat over.
This caused the mother fans far away to exclaim, "The baby is so smart," "Hill caused a big disaster, Hill made a great contribution," and "I should have bought the ticket for that rubber boat."
Fat Tiger turned the rubber boat over again and threw the salmon hat onto the boat as compensation.
"Ying!" Fresh salmon from the place of origin, for you to eat~
“Puff——”
Several people on the boat laughed at the same time.
"It is said that killer whales will feed people who fall into the water, and today we also encountered this."
"Thank you, babe. We won't eat it."
The lifeguard just picked up the fish and was about to throw it back into the sea.
Hill, who was guarding the boat, immediately opened the huge mouth of the abyss.
"Bing!"
If you don’t want to eat it, give it back to me!
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