The world is so big, we also want to see?
In 2021, a wild herd of 15 elephants traveled thousands of miles from Yunnan all the way north, stopping and eating, drinking, and traveling thousands of miles in months. Their every move is not only paid attention to by the Chinese people every day, but also attracts much attention even abroad, and they have become the "star celebrities" who are all the rage.
In fact, since the end of 2020, researchers in China have found and paid attention to the abnormality of this elephant herd, trying to find out the reason for their way north, but they have not given a clear answer.
As a result, speculations such as "habitat reduces food shortages", "elephants are lost", "abnormal solar activity triggers the migration instinct of elephants" and so on.
Coincidentally, in 2021, there are also wild "star elephants" wandering abroad, but it is not an elephant. It was a wandering walrus that had been living in Ireland and Wales for several months in early 2021 and made headlines on March 14, 2021, when it was haunted on valentia Island in Kerry, Ireland.
In late April, it arrived in Wales and began wandering around a lifeboat slide, which tricked crews trying to train.
The walrus then traveled about 402 kilometres to the coast of Pembrokeshire in Wales and then to Padesto off the coast of England, but after colliding with a ship on its way south to France, it stopped at the western French city of Les Sables Doronne, seemingly recuperating or recuperating.
All the way south, the wandering pinniped animal has also won itself many fans, and people are also interested in "Where did it come from?" Doubts arose.
People who know this marine mammal know that walruses are also big guys, some of them can grow to more than 2,000 kilograms, and they also have a pair of protruding tusks that can reach a length of about 1 meter.
Walrus lives in areas spread across Arctic and subarctic waters, but when Ireland first discovered it was thousands of kilometres offshore from its habitat, did it swim all the way by itself?
Some biologists have speculated that it may have come from Greenland or the Arctic Svalbard, and that the walrus at that time may have fallen asleep on a piece of ice floes and then drifted with the ocean currents heading south...
The walrus wasn't the first "wanderer" to reach Irish waters, as in 2018 a walrus left its habitat for a tour of northern Scotland, where it first appeared in the Orkney Islands and then wandered off the coast of Sutherland.
He then swam south to the Outer Hebrides, then turned back, perhaps to the North Pole. It was the first wild walrus to appear in Scotland since 1954.
Whether it is a herd of wandering elephants in Yunnan or a wandering walrus in Ireland, they are all biological "wanderers". That said, the animals look far out of their normal geographic range. (Of course, they are different from aliens who escape or release from captivity.) ）
And some "wanderers" may appear in environments that do not provide their long-term habitat, unlike "migration", such as the wandering walrus that appears in Ireland. These animals may be doomed to survive unless they manage to return to a more suitable habitat.
But this is a daunting task for animals that have already consumed too much of their energy reserves, as they are likely to not be able to get enough food to replenish their energy in their new environment.
At this point, China's help to the wild elephant herds in Yunnan all the way north is completely beyond the imagination of other countries in the world, and they are also shocked by China's strength and determination to protect animals and environmental protection.
Far from it, back to the point. Some researchers believe that this "wandering" behavior of animals may not be a bad thing for the animal population itself, because in some cases, the surviving "wanderers" may play a role in the "forward reconnaissance" of the population, thus helping a species to open up new territory, and may even become a frontier area for the geographical transfer of species caused by climate change.
Birds that are flyers often become "wanderers," perhaps blown off course by storms, or in some cases may exhibit navigation failures, such as when migratory birds leave breeding grounds, wintering grounds, or "reverse migrations," where domestic swallows have already been recorded flying to Antarctica.
Most "wanderers" are tragic because these animals embark on a journey with no way out, irretrievably far removed from the environment that can sustain them.
Maybe some animals will reach the coast far from home, and then they have to stay there for a long time to recover their strength, and then some of them will grow wings that they didn't have before, or limbs, or adapt to underwater life...