We like to classify many animals we have never seen before as "unknown creatures". After all, there are so many kinds of animals, and coupled with our lack of knowledge, we are always full of curiosity when we see strange animals!
The animals in this story are endangered species and are also first-level protected animals in our country. The moment I saw it, in addition to being puzzled, I also felt a lot of heartache.
In On the morning of February 9, a kind person saw an unknown aquatic creature from a distance near the north bank of the Qiantang River. He was curious about what it was. When he got closer, he found that it was motionless and seemed to have no vital signs. He couldn't help but feel sad after seeing it. .
Subsequently, he immediately called the relevant departments to report the situation. Not long after, the Municipal Fisheries Administration Station sent several staff to sail a boat to prepare for salvage. After several workers spent more than half an hour working together to salvage it, they found it dead and covered in mud, making it difficult to identify what kind of animal it was.
So, after the staff returned to the main station, they washed it clean and initially determined that the unknown aquatic creature might be the Qiantang River finless porpoise, which is about 1.4 meters long and weighs about 39 kilograms.
If If a stranded finless porpoise is still alive, it usually requires help from Ocean Park personnel. But for it that is already dead, we can only consider whether it can be made into a specimen in a natural history museum. If specimens cannot be made, they can only be buried.
In fact, this is not the first time that finless porpoises have been stranded in the Qiantang River. In the past ten years, there have been about 10 similar incidents one after another, some of which were caused by fishermen catching by mistake.
Veterinarian Xiao Ming believes that since the finless porpoise is a protected animal, more science education should be provided to nearby fishermen to avoid such man-made harm. In addition, with the development of human beings, their living environment has become worse than before. Nowadays, there is a lot of domestic garbage on the seashore. On the one hand, we must restrain our own behavior., do not litter into the water areas, and protect a good water environment. On the other hand, local people should also find people to clean up the garbage in time.
Popular science from veterinarian Xiao Ming:
Finless porpoises usually live in the sea area where saltwater meets fresh water. They like to move alone, and sometimes they form groups. Generally, no more than 4-5 individuals form groups. , but at most there were 87 together. They are lively and often swim up and down in the water, and their bodies are always rolling around.
In In terms of diet, finless porpoises will eat a variety of fish, such as eels, seabass, large whitebait, etc., as well as some shrimps and squid. Finless porpoises may stray into the Qiantang River, and ship noise may damage the finless porpoise sonar system. Some fishermen do not know the finless porpoise and will use fishing nets to catch it.