Because of the greed of the Japanese to place half-right guards, nearly 6.3 million short-tailed albatrosses were hunted down. However, just when the short-tailed albatross was on the verge of extinction, an extremely absurd event occurred, which not only caused the destruction of the Yuji half-right guard door family, but also caused the short-tailed albatross to miraculously escape the disaster of extinction.
With a wingspan of more than 2 meters, the short-tailed albatross is the largest seabird in the world and the only one that is almost pure white. The short-tailed albatross is known as "Okino taifu" because of its white feathers and elegant posture. But who would have thought that these advantages would bring death to the short-tailed albatross?
The short-tailed albatross spread throughout the Pacific Ocean, but most of the time, it only thrived on Torishima Island in the Izu Islands of Japan.
Before the Meiji Restoration in Japan, Torishima was a small uninhabited island. Although japanese fishermen have been displaced to Torishima due to shipwrecks and have to hunt short-tailed albatrosses to survive, it has not had much impact on the ecology of the short-tailed albatross population.
However, Tamaki Hanaemon, who was born on HachijoJima Island in the Izu Islands, realized the huge benefits of the duvet and directly changed the fate of the short-tailed albatross.
Tamaki Half Right Guard worked as a carpenter and did some small business when he was young, but he was not too successful. Later, Tamaki Hanaemon glimpsed the business opportunity of duvets in Yokohama, and ambitiously decided to develop a small island in the southern waters of Japan, and then use the bird feathers on the island to make a fortune.
As a result, Tamadami Hanemon actively responded to the call of the Edo shogunate and the Meiji government, participated in the development of the Ogasawara Islands, and after making a windfall fortune by relying on dyeing cloth, in 1888 obtained permission from the Meiji government, formed a pioneer group of more than a dozen people, and climbed to Torishima Island to hunt short-tailed albatrosses.
Short-tailed albatrosses originally had no predators on Torishima Island, so they lacked vigilance against humans. So when the oversized short-tailed albatross realized that the human wielding the stick was an enemy or a friend, it was too late to run to a high place and take off with the help of the wind.
A large number of short-tailed albatrosses were killed by the pioneer group of Tamachi Half-Right Gate, which is said to be able to kill more than 100 short-tailed albatrosses per capita every day.
The greed of Tamadami Half-Right Guard gate is bottomless, he uses the feathers of the short-tailed albatross as the raw material for the duvet, the meat of the short-tailed albatross is made into cans, and even the bones of the short-tailed albatross are ground up and transported back to Japan and sold as fertilizer.
Tamada half-right guard gate made a lot of money, but called the short-tailed albatross "Dumb Bird", which means that the short-tailed albatross was clumsy and deserved to be hunted by them.
Subsequently, Tamaki Hanemon moved the center of his business to the Daito Islands in Okinawa, where he established a colonial kingdom almost independent of the Japanese government.
However, the pioneer group's hunting of the short-tailed albatross on Bird Island did not stop there. According to statistical estimates, before the Japanese government stopped the feather business of albatrosses, most of the short-tailed albatrosses on Torishima died at the hands of the pioneer group of Tamaki Hanemon.
But just as the short-tailed albatross was about to follow in the footsteps of the extinction of the passenger pigeon and the dodo, an unexpected disaster occurred.
On August 7, 1902, the "Hyogo Maru" liner carried a sick young man to Chichijima Island in the Ogasawara Islands for medical treatment. However, when they returned to Torishima on August 16, they were stunned by the tragic situation in front of them.
Only to see the center of Torishima suddenly appeared a 900 meters long from north to south, 300 meters wide from east to west, the entire Torishima black smoke billowing, from time to time there are volcanic stones falling from the sky, the original settlement of 126 pioneer group residents Chitoseura, has long disappeared, the sea near Torishima has been stained with house debris a turbidity.
Kiyoso Kawamuro, the captain of the Hyogo Maru, ventured to drive a boat close to Torishima, but allowed the whistle to sound, but no one on Torishima responded.
The Aisaka Maru, a small boat that occasionally passed by Torishima, had already detected a volcanic eruption on Torishima island as early as the morning of August 10, but could only watch the disaster happen.
The pioneers who were engaged in the hunting of short-tailed albatrosses on Bird Island, who had neither telegraphs nor ships to use for their lives, were quietly buried in nature.
Afterwards, although Tamaki Hanemon's career was severely damaged, he did not die and wanted to restore Torijima's career. In 1910, Tamada hanemon went on a field trip to Torishima Island, but on his way back he suddenly suffered from liver disease and died shortly after returning to Tokyo.
Shortly after the death of Tamaki Hanemon, his three sons not only fought for property, but also spent all day drinking without any enterprising spirits. Just 6 years later, the Yuzhi Chamber of Commerce had to declare bankruptcy and sell all its properties to pay off its debts.
At that time, the Japanese called the Tamada Chamber of Commerce incident the "Curse of the Dumb Bird", and the mass hunting of short-tailed albatrosses on Bird Island finally stopped.
Later, although Torishima Island was still prone to volcanoes, and the number of short-tailed albatrosses was still declining due to the harsh environment of the breeding grounds, it finally survived until 1933, when the Japanese government announced a ban on the hunting of short-tailed albatrosses.
The short-tailed albatross on Bird Island miraculously survived by a volcanic eruption that dealt a devastating blow to mankind. This also makes human beings more in awe of the mysteries of nature.
