Radio drama: Why do basking sharks go hungry?

Zhang Chong Original

Hi Baby Adapted and Broadcast

Zhang Yuyuan Figure

Hello children! Welcome to the second season of Hi Baby Theater's "Question Mark Science Fairy Tales of Magical Beasts", I am your little Sister Mo, every episode I will throw a question, children will get the answer after listening to the story!

The question in this episode is: Why do basking sharks go hungry?

original:

There are many, many plankton in the waters of Moon Bay, such as red algae, cyanobacteria, diatoms, and grasshoppers... They live in the seawater three layers above and three levels below, stirring the original pure seawater into "juice".

The bay is inhabited by many, many herring.

Don't look at them as small, only as long as chopsticks, but they always move in groups, like clouds floating in the sky, sweeping around in the sea, devouring plankton in the "juice".

There is a large turtle living in Moon Bay, which has been living here for hundreds of years, and everyone calls it "Elder".

On this day, as soon as the "elder" got up, a group of herring came around.

The herring in the front screamed, "No, there's a swarm of basking sharks coming to grab our food!" They eat more plankton every day than we eat millions of herring, and we can't live! ”

Another herring herring squeezed to the front and stared wide-eyed and said, "It's terrible, that big basking shark's mouth is open and can swallow a boat, and we haven't been eaten by it all?!" Elder save us!" ”

The great turtle had seen the big basking shark, and when he heard this, he smiled and said, "You are too exaggerated, the big basking shark eats plankton, and it is impossible for you live herring to eat unless you send it to the door yourself." ”

That being said, the elders agreed with what the first herring said.

No matter how many plankton in Moon Bay, it can't stand the gobble-up of the big basking sharks, and it wants to persuade the big basking sharks to leave Moon Bay.

The elder swam round and round in moon bay, wondering, how come he didn't see the big basking shark? It was a little tired, so it sank to the bottom of the sea to take a breath.

Suddenly, it saw several large basking sharks lying on the bottom of the sea and not moving.

"Hey, friend, what are you doing here?" The elder asked.

A large basking shark said weakly, "Well, don't mention it, our gills that filter food have fallen off, and we have to wait until they grow back before we can eat." ”

Great turtles know that big basking sharks have slender gills like comb teeth in their mouths, and every time they swallow "juice", it is these gills that stop plankton entering their mouths and spit out the seawater. If the cheek rake is off, a little plankton in the "juice" alone will not fill the stomach.

The elder asked, "When will you grow a new cheek rake?" ”

The basking shark said, "Probably two or three months, only to starve until that day." ”

Hearing this, the elder did not want to persuade the great basking shark to leave, he wanted to tell the herring the news first, let them cherish this time and live well!