Chapter 13 The Not-So-Clever Round-faced Plate Bear
When Guo Mi woke up again, it was morning again. She sat up slowly, patted her face with her bear paw, and looked at the rising sun outside. Under the sun, I couldn't help but sigh that the bear's sleep quality was really good.
She had never slept for such a long time in her life.
Sleeping for such a long time did not even require eating, and it saved a lot of effort. If she hadn't starved to death if she didn't eat for a long time, she might as well just sleep every day!
I vaguely remember that polar bears seem to sleep longer than brown bears.
Guo Mi lowered his head and saw that the two white hair balls were still sleeping soundly.
It was time to wake up after sleeping for such a long time. Guo Mi sat down, stretched out his front paws and patted the two hairballs on the head!
Maybe she didn’t grasp the importance. When she was about to take the second shot, the little bear was already frightened and woke up. The two white hair balls had turned into two fried hair balls. He jumped up and looked at him in panic. All around.
Seeing that the two furballs didn't seem to realize that he was behind them, Guo Mi laughed evilly twice, carefully put his front paws back on the ground, lay down, and stretched his neck behind the two little bears. Take a sharp breath!
The little bears screamed in fright and hugged each other!
"Hahahahahaha——"
Guo Mi was amused. He leaned back and sat in the hole, covering his stomach with his paws and laughing.
The two little bears finally realized what they were doing and huddled in the corner, looking at her timidly with their little beady eyes, all filled with accusations of her bad behavior.
Guo Mi stopped after laughing enough and looked at the sky outside.
Today’s weather looks much better than the previous two days. Well, it’s good weather for looking for food!
Guo Mi climbed out of the cave, looked around, chose a direction and walked out.
The two little bears in the cave looked at each other in confusion. After a moment, their eyes became firm. They struggled to climb out of the cave and followed Guo Mi from a distance.
Guo Mi didn't chase them away when he heard the noise, and just let them follow behind him.
A beautiful day also brought good luck. Seeing the sparkling water in the distance, Guo Mi stopped instantly. She blinked, fearing that it was because she had been waiting in the snow for a long time. The light reflected from the snow hurt my eyes and made me see the wrong things.
After finally confirming that it was a water source, Guo Mi cheered in his heart and ran with all his limbs in the direction of the reflected light!
The two little bears at the back didn't know what was going on and ran wildly with Guo Mi!
Unfortunately, this is just a small lake that has melted in advance due to the arrival of spring, and is not the sea that Guo Mi wants to see the most.
But even so, Guo Mi is already very satisfied!
The sparkling water was close at hand. Guo Mi took small steps to the edge of the lake and stepped on the edge tentatively.
After making sure that the ice floe she stepped on was not a weak ice floe, she stepped on it with confidence.
This lake is not very big, about the size of two football fields. Only the edges have begun to melt, and there are still unfinished ice floes in the center of the lake.
Guo Mi lowered his head and smelled the lake water, and a salty smell came up.
She was a little unwilling to give up, so she stuck out her tongue and licked it.
In an instant, the ultimate salty taste and bitterness swept through the entire mouth along the tip of the tongue!
Guo Mi's whole bear face wrinkled together, and he quickly took a bite of snow beside him. After a few big mouthfuls of snow, the salty and bitter smell subsided.
She was discouraged and sat by the lake, stroking her stomach that had just become cold from swallowing snow, and watched the salt water lake in front of her flood.
If this lake is a saltwater lake, it means that it is connected to the sea and is bottomless.
This also means that what they are stepping on is most likely not the earth, but the glaciers formed after years of snow compaction and recrystallization.
No land means no plants, let alone wild berries, Guomi can’t even eat grass!
The bear is a creature that is very resistant to hunger, but in such a world of ice and snow, she cannot find food to maintain her body fat. In the end, she will freeze to death even if she does not starve to death.
Guo Mi was lying on the edge of the lake, with his head resting on his two front paws, looking melancholy at the blue lake in front of him.
The water gets darker as it goes deeper, and it obviously goes straight to the bottom of the sea.
The two little bears followed her example and lay down by the lake, looking into the lake with their heads lowered.
Caesar was sitting on a high snowy slope across the lake, looking at a man and two children lying down by the lake. His ears twitched twice, and there was something strange in his eyes.
The last time he saw this female bear, he was wondering why she wanted to protect the two cubs. Now it seems that she is planning to adopt these two cubs?
He had seen many bears that killed their cubs. This was the first time Caesar had seen this kind of bear adopt a cub that was not his own.
Guo Mi glanced at the lake in front of him out of boredom, and seemed to catch something moving in his peripheral vision?
She yawned for a moment, then stood up suddenly, put her head close to the lake, and looked at the water carefully.
The two little bears next to them were startled. Just as they were about to jump up, they were pinned down by Guo Mi's paw! She looked at the lake carefully and again, and finally determined:
There are fish in this lake, and there are quite a lot of them, and the sizes are okay, but the fish scales are dark in color, so they are not so obvious in the dark blue water. .
Guo Mi felt happy and walked slowly around the lake, placing his paws gently on the snow to minimize the sound he made.
The two little bears were so frightened by her posture that they did not dare to move and sat obediently in place.
Guo Mi is very satisfied with the understanding of the two little guys!
Finally reaching the fish, she held her breath, then stretched out her claws like lightning and patted the fish hard!
"Pa--"
With a sound of water, the calm lake surface suddenly wrinkled, and the splashing water splashed into the water. Countless water ripples spread out in circles, and the three heads reflected on the lake surface The bear instantly turned into a shadow.
Although I don’t know what Guo Mi is doing, she is as fierce as a tiger in every operation!
Not only the two cubs, but even Caesar on the snowy slope opposite couldn't help but stand up, and looked at her with three eyes!
Guo Mi's paws were still in the water. After a long period of silence, she took the soaked paws out of the water without changing her expression, and looked at the sky lightly. His eyes were distant, as if nothing had happened just now, except that the wet paw seemed to be hidden behind his back.
"..."
The two little bears had doubts in their eyes. In the end, they just thought she was playing in the water and lay back on the snow.
Caesar on the snowy slope understood clearly that she just wanted to catch fish.
Looking at the round-faced Pan Bear sitting awkwardly by the lake, his round ears shaking uncomfortably, Caesar sneered and sat back down again.
There are indeed fish in the lake. In winter, some polar bears cannot bear the hunger and will break open the lake surface and dive in to catch them.
But he had never seen a bear standing by the river with his paws in just to catch the fish.
It seems that he overestimated this round-faced plate bear, and he is very courageous. However, with this method of catching fish and the fact that he has not been found until now, it shows that he has basically zero life experience.
Caesar guessed that her mother might not have carefully taught her how to survive in the Arctic, or that she might have been lazy while studying.
At least no female bear will teach her cubs to go tit-for-tat with a strong male bear.
Guo Mi's embarrassment disappeared completely in less than two minutes. He quickly cheered up and began to observe the fish in the lake, waiting for the next opportunity.
To her, embarrassment is nothing. People have to face a lot of embarrassment in their lives. These embarrassments bring not only a shameful memory, but also experience, experience that helps her progress or survive.
Embarrassment is only temporary, but experience gained is precious and eternal.
She walked slowly around the lake, and soon found another fish parked by the lake.
He walked over quietly as usual, and then stretched out his claws with lightning!
As expected, it failed again.
This time, Guo Mi didn't even have to worry about the awkward two minutes at the beginning, and soon found a third chance!
Several times in a row, none of them succeeded.
Now the two little bears could see what Guo Mi was doing, and they both looked at her with complicated eyes.
Two hours passed by, and Guo Mi kept trying, failing, and then trying again, persevering.
A lot of fish in the lake were scared away, and there were far fewer fish than before. Guo Mi had even fewer chances to wait.
Caesar on the snow slope watched with great interest at first, but ended up lying on the snow in boredom.
In addition to feeling that the round-faced Plate Bear’s patience is valuable, I just feel that she is not very smart.
Illustrations from the documentary:
"Polar Bear: Detective on the Ice"
(End of this chapter)