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With Mickey's explanation, the party came to the seed bank about three kilometers away from the urban area.
The seed bank stands on the hillside of Svalbard mountain opposite Svalbard airport, which is very sci-fi. The shape of the seed bank gate is very similar to that of the alien spacecraft invading the earth in the American science fiction blockbuster independence day.
Under the leadership of Mickey, the people came to the seed bank along a winding mountain highway. After getting close, Yang Jing felt the grandeur of the seed bank.
The reinforced concrete building exposed outside the mountain is only the gate of the seed bank. This section of the building is more than 12 meters high and about four meters wide. A heavy gate divides the inner and outer world into two parts.
At the door of the gate, there is a statue of a polar bear.
Greg asked Mickey curiously, "why is a statue of a polar bear erected here?"
Mickey laughs: "The reason why a statue of polar bear is erected here is an interesting story. The Norwegian government planned to build a seed bank here, but this is the world of polar bears. There are many polar bears wandering around the mountain and on the mountain every day. In the face of these powerful polar bears, the builders can only show kindness and strength, feed and eat It was armed guards who made peace with them and finally repaired the seed bank. Then, when the seed bank was repaired, these polar bears became the natural guards of the seed bank. In order to express their gratitude to the polar bears, the Norwegian government erected such a statue of polar bears at the gate of the seed bank. "
The party all smiled.
Mickey continued: "This seed bank is built on the hillside of 130 meters above sea level, which is high enough to ensure that even if there is a nuclear war in the future, the global glaciers will melt and the sea water will not submerge here. Moreover, it is located in the high latitude area, which is cold all year round, and the seed bank is built in the permafrost. Therefore, even if the air conditioning equipment inside is completely ineffective, it can be in a cold place all year round In this seed bank, the seeds of important crops such as wheat, barley and peas can be preserved for up to 1000 years, while the sorghum seeds with the longest viability can be stored for about 19500 years. "
Yang Jing asked curiously, "what is the structure in this?"
Mickey shook his head and said: "I haven't been in, but I've heard of the structure inside. The seed bank goes more than 100 meters deep into the mountain and is completely made of reinforced concrete up to one meter thick. Its core area is three side-by-side independent cold rooms at the end of the passage, each 27 meters long, 9.5 meters wide and 5 meters high. The metal doors of each cold room are covered with ice and frost."
"At present, only one of the three refrigerated rooms is used, and the other two are still empty. But this refrigerated room is also equipped with three keys, one of which is worn by the director of the seed bank, the other is in the hands of the Norwegian government, and the remaining key is unknown. I'm afraid only the people of the Norwegian government know the real identity of the wearer of the last key. Only When all three keys are put together, you can open the refrigerator. "
Chris smiled. "It's as safe as the Fort Knox vault."
Mickey nodded: "Almost. Even if it is not as good as the Fort Knox vault, it is estimated that it is not much worse. This seed bank is built according to the standard that it can resist nuclear bomb bombardment and magnitude 7 earthquake. I don't know whether the atomic bomb can withstand it, but what I know is that a magnitude 6.2 earthquake occurred here a week before the completion of this seed bank, longier Many buildings in the city have collapsed, but there is nothing here. "
Chris nodded and said, "this seed bank is really strong."
Mickey said: "That's natural. In addition to its ability to resist external forces, this seed bank is also absolutely commendable in terms of internal security. In the middle of the three cold rooms from the door to the core area is a 100 meter long tunnel with five explosion-proof steel doors. Without corresponding keys and passwords, outsiders simply don't want to break there by violence. Moreover, in this way Inside the road, there are people patrolling with guns 24 hours a day. Especially the three cold rooms in the core area, outsiders can't go in. "
After a pause, Mickey smiled and said: "Less than half a month after the completion of the seed bank, Norway's crown prince Magnus came here and offered to see the cold room in the core area, but he was refused. After a while, former US President Carter also came to visit the seed bank. At that time, he also proposed to go to the cold room in the core area, which was also closed."
"The security here is so strict?" asked Ge in surprise
"Well, what is so strict? After all, it is the last hope of human beings. It is not what anyone can enter. There is a saying that everyone agrees." human beings are dying. Here has the final say. "Here are about eight hundred thousand kinds of seeds stored in plants, and there is no seed left for transgenic plants. This is guaranteed. The purity of species. Therefore, this is an important place for all mankind. It's natural that the security is so tight. "
Yang Jing asked, "have the seeds stored here ever been useful?"
"Yes," Mickey nodded affirmatively, "The Syrian civil war in September 2015 killed hundreds of thousands of people and forced about 11 million people to become refugees. During the war, the main seed bank in Aleppo in the Middle East was damaged and unusable. The Syrian civil war forced Middle Easterners to take seeds from the 'Doomsday Seed Bank' for the first time. Middle Easterners first applied, and then took them out here Nearly 130 of the 325 boxes previously stored here and a total of 116000 copies of crop seed backups. This is the first time since the establishment of the world seed bank. "
Mickey shrugged his shoulders and spread his hands. "See, this is the greatness of this seed bank!"
The party stood in front of the seed bank. Svalbard airport was opposite the road below the mountain, and the Bay was to the east of the airport. Langil city was to the southeast of the seed bank, and many residents and tourists were shuttling through the small city.
A female bear with two cubs appeared on the top of the mountain above the seed bank. It may have just had a full meal. The three women just stood on the top of the mountain and silently watched these people, then shook their heads and turned away. The two cubs behind his ass happily followed his mother while playing and running.
Further away, the glacier opposite the Bay emits a strange color close to gold under the sunlight, which complements the blue sky and the sea, forming a more beautiful scenery than a painting.
The air is full of the fishy smell of the sea, mixed with a trace of the fragrance of flowers and plants. Although it is already in the Arctic Circle, there are still tenacious plants that strive to grow, blossom and bear fruit with the help of the warm and short two or three months in summer.
In any case, the city is not brilliant. Bad weather, inconvenient transportation. Even food can't be self-sufficient. It can only be transported in from the outside.
But it is such a small city, but it contains a kind of greatness.
Yes, it is the existence of this "Doomsday Seed Bank" that makes this northernmost city in the world great.
Maybe one year in the future, there will be a nuclear war like the terminator, a biochemical war like the biochemical crisis, or a disaster like the day after tomorrow or even 2012.
After such a disaster, if mankind wants to stand up again, this seed bank hidden deep in the mountains and the seed bank secretly built by other countries will completely become mankind's last hope.
With her weak body, this city tenaciously bears the last hope of mankind all over the world. With this alone, this city can be called "great".
It seems that he felt Yang Jing's idea. Dabai came up, stretched out his tongue and licked Yang Jing's hand, and smiled. Dabai's idea is very clear - there is me here, and I will guard the city.
At this time, a group of tourists came up from the foot of the mountain. Some of them were large and small. They looked like a big family. Of course, these people were also led by a local guide.
Mickey and the tour guide obviously knew each other very well. After a few words of greeting, Mickey took Yang Jing and they left the door of the seed bank.
At the foot of the mountain, Mickey said: "In fact, there are not only the seed bank we saw just now in langil City, but also two seed banks on this mountain and that mountain. One is the seed bank entrusted by Iceland to the Norwegian government, and the other is the Norwegian seed bank built by the Norwegian government itself. However, the scale of the two seed banks is not so large, and the storage is Iceland and Norway Each family has its own plant seeds. "
In less than two hours, the party finished visiting the small town. Led by Mickey, the party came to a restaurant on the edge of the bay for dinner.
The arrival of Da Bai made the restaurant owner very happy. Obviously, the boss watched the live TV broadcast yesterday. However, because there were many people eating in the restaurant, Yang Jing and his party were guided to eat in a separate room in the east of the restaurant. No matter how much the restaurant owner liked Da Bai, he would not let Da Bai appear in the restaurant.
Lunch food is very rich, mostly local specialties, such as whale meat and seal meat.
It is worth mentioning that when Yang Jing learned that there were fresh seals here, Yang Jing directly spent $2000 to buy a newly captured seal, and then pushed it to the beach with a small cart, so that Dabai could enjoy the seal alone there - Dabai's meal was very bloody. It certainly could not eat in this separate room, otherwise Yang Jing and them would not eat.
Although Dabai likes to eat meat, it prefers to eat seal fat. Especially at the end of summer, after polar bears hunt seals, they don't eat seal meat at all, but only eat the fat.
As for the remaining meat of seals, it's cheaper for those arctic foxes following the polar bear
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With Mickey's explanation, the party came to the seed bank about three kilometers away from the urban area.
The seed bank stands on the hillside of Svalbard mountain opposite Svalbard airport, which is very sci-fi. The shape of the seed bank gate is very similar to that of the alien spacecraft invading the earth in the American science fiction blockbuster independence day.
Under the leadership of Mickey, the people came to the seed bank along a winding mountain highway. After getting close, Yang Jing felt the grandeur of the seed bank.
The reinforced concrete building exposed outside the mountain is only the gate of the seed bank. This section of the building is more than 12 meters high and about four meters wide. A heavy gate divides the inner and outer world into two parts.
At the door of the gate, there is a statue of a polar bear.
Greg asked Mickey curiously, "why is a statue of a polar bear erected here?"
Mickey laughs: "The reason why a statue of polar bear is erected here is an interesting story. The Norwegian government planned to build a seed bank here, but this is the world of polar bears. There are many polar bears wandering around the mountain and on the mountain every day. In the face of these powerful polar bears, the builders can only show kindness and strength, feed and eat It was armed guards who made peace with them and finally repaired the seed bank. Then, when the seed bank was repaired, these polar bears became the natural guards of the seed bank. In order to express their gratitude to the polar bears, the Norwegian government erected such a statue of polar bears at the gate of the seed bank. "
The party all smiled.
Mickey continued: "This seed bank is built on the hillside of 130 meters above sea level, which is high enough to ensure that even if there is a nuclear war in the future, the global glaciers will melt and the sea water will not submerge here. Moreover, it is located in the high latitude area, which is cold all year round, and the seed bank is built in the permafrost. Therefore, even if the air conditioning equipment inside is completely ineffective, it can be in a cold place all year round In this seed bank, the seeds of important crops such as wheat, barley and peas can be preserved for up to 1000 years, while the sorghum seeds with the longest viability can be stored for about 19500 years. "
Yang Jing asked curiously, "what is the structure in this?"
Mickey shook his head and said: "I haven't been in, but I've heard of the structure inside. The seed bank goes more than 100 meters deep into the mountain and is completely made of reinforced concrete up to one meter thick. Its core area is three side-by-side independent cold rooms at the end of the passage, each 27 meters long, 9.5 meters wide and 5 meters high. The metal doors of each cold room are covered with ice and frost."
"At present, only one of the three refrigerated rooms is used, and the other two are still empty. But this refrigerated room is also equipped with three keys, one of which is worn by the director of the seed bank, the other is in the hands of the Norwegian government, and the remaining key is unknown. I'm afraid only the people of the Norwegian government know the real identity of the wearer of the last key. Only When all three keys are put together, you can open the refrigerator. "
Chris smiled. "It's as safe as the Fort Knox vault."
Mickey nodded: "Almost. Even if it is not as good as the Fort Knox vault, it is estimated that it is not much worse. This seed bank is built according to the standard that it can resist nuclear bomb bombardment and magnitude 7 earthquake. I don't know whether the atomic bomb can withstand it, but what I know is that a magnitude 6.2 earthquake occurred here a week before the completion of this seed bank, longier Many buildings in the city have collapsed, but there is nothing here. "
Chris nodded and said, "this seed bank is really strong."
Mickey said: "That's natural. In addition to its ability to resist external forces, this seed bank is also absolutely commendable in terms of internal security. In the middle of the three cold rooms from the door to the core area is a 100 meter long tunnel with five explosion-proof steel doors. Without corresponding keys and passwords, outsiders simply don't want to break there by violence. Moreover, in this way Inside the road, there are people patrolling with guns 24 hours a day. Especially the three cold rooms in the core area, outsiders can't go in. "
After a pause, Mickey smiled and said: "Less than half a month after the completion of the seed bank, Norway's crown prince Magnus came here and offered to see the cold room in the core area, but he was refused. After a while, former US President Carter also came to visit the seed bank. At that time, he also proposed to go to the cold room in the core area, which was also closed."
"The security here is so strict?" asked Ge in surprise
"Well, what is so strict? After all, it is the last hope of human beings. It is not what anyone can enter. There is a saying that everyone agrees." human beings are dying. Here has the final say. "Here are about eight hundred thousand kinds of seeds stored in plants, and there is no seed left for transgenic plants. This is guaranteed. The purity of species. Therefore, this is an important place for all mankind. It's natural that the security is so tight. "
Yang Jing asked, "have the seeds stored here ever been useful?"
"Yes," Mickey nodded affirmatively, "The Syrian civil war in September 2015 killed hundreds of thousands of people and forced about 11 million people to become refugees. During the war, the main seed bank in Aleppo in the Middle East was damaged and unusable. The Syrian civil war forced Middle Easterners to take seeds from the 'Doomsday Seed Bank' for the first time. Middle Easterners first applied, and then took them out here Nearly 130 of the 325 boxes previously stored here and a total of 116000 copies of crop seed backups. This is the first time since the establishment of the world seed bank. "
Mickey shrugged his shoulders and spread his hands. "See, this is the greatness of this seed bank!"
The party stood in front of the seed bank. Svalbard airport was opposite the road below the mountain, and the Bay was to the east of the airport. Langil city was to the southeast of the seed bank, and many residents and tourists were shuttling through the small city.
A female bear with two cubs appeared on the top of the mountain above the seed bank. It may have just had a full meal. The three women just stood on the top of the mountain and silently watched these people, then shook their heads and turned away. The two cubs behind his ass happily followed his mother while playing and running.
Further away, the glacier opposite the Bay emits a strange color close to gold under the sunlight, which complements the blue sky and the sea, forming a more beautiful scenery than a painting.
The air is full of the fishy smell of the sea, mixed with a trace of the fragrance of flowers and plants. Although it is already in the Arctic Circle, there are still tenacious plants that strive to grow, blossom and bear fruit with the help of the warm and short two or three months in summer.
In any case, the city is not brilliant. Bad weather, inconvenient transportation. Even food can't be self-sufficient. It can only be transported in from the outside.
But it is such a small city, but it contains a kind of greatness.
Yes, it is the existence of this "Doomsday Seed Bank" that makes this northernmost city in the world great.
Maybe one year in the future, there will be a nuclear war like the terminator, a biochemical war like the biochemical crisis, or a disaster like the day after tomorrow or even 2012.
After such a disaster, if mankind wants to stand up again, this seed bank hidden deep in the mountains and the seed bank secretly built by other countries will completely become mankind's last hope.
With her weak body, this city tenaciously bears the last hope of mankind all over the world. With this alone, this city can be called "great".
It seems that he felt Yang Jing's idea. Dabai came up, stretched out his tongue and licked Yang Jing's hand, and smiled. Dabai's idea is very clear - there is me here, and I will guard the city.
At this time, a group of tourists came up from the foot of the mountain. Some of them were large and small. They looked like a big family. Of course, these people were also led by a local guide.
Mickey and the tour guide obviously knew each other very well. After a few words of greeting, Mickey took Yang Jing and they left the door of the seed bank.
At the foot of the mountain, Mickey said: "In fact, there are not only the seed bank we saw just now in langil City, but also two seed banks on this mountain and that mountain. One is the seed bank entrusted by Iceland to the Norwegian government, and the other is the Norwegian seed bank built by the Norwegian government itself. However, the scale of the two seed banks is not so large, and the storage is Iceland and Norway Each family has its own plant seeds. "
In less than two hours, the party finished visiting the small town. Led by Mickey, the party came to a restaurant on the edge of the bay for dinner.
The arrival of Da Bai made the restaurant owner very happy. Obviously, the boss watched the live TV broadcast yesterday. However, because there were many people eating in the restaurant, Yang Jing and his party were guided to eat in a separate room in the east of the restaurant. No matter how much the restaurant owner liked Da Bai, he would not let Da Bai appear in the restaurant.
Lunch food is very rich, mostly local specialties, such as whale meat and seal meat.
It is worth mentioning that when Yang Jing learned that there were fresh seals here, Yang Jing directly spent $2000 to buy a newly captured seal, and then pushed it to the beach with a small cart, so that Dabai could enjoy the seal alone there - Dabai's meal was very bloody. It certainly could not eat in this separate room, otherwise Yang Jing and them would not eat.
Although Dabai likes to eat meat, it prefers to eat seal fat. Especially at the end of summer, after polar bears hunt seals, they don't eat seal meat at all, but only eat the fat.
As for the remaining meat of seals, it's cheaper for those arctic foxes following the polar bear
With Mickey's explanation, the party came to the seed bank about three kilometers away from the urban area.The seed bank stands on the hillside of Svalbard mountain opposite Svalbard airport, which is very sci-fi. The shape of the seed bank gate is very similar to that of the alien spacecraft invading the earth in the American science fiction blockbuster independence day.Under the leadership of Mickey, the people came to the seed bank along a winding mountain highway. After getting close, Yang Jing felt the grandeur of the seed bank.The reinforced concrete building exposed outside the mountain is only the gate of the seed bank. This section of the building is more than 12 meters high and about four meters wide. A heavy gate divides the inner and outer world into two parts.At the door of the gate, there is a statue of a polar bear.Greg asked Mickey curiously, "why is a statue of a polar bear erected here?"Mickey laughs: "The reason why a statue of polar bear is erected here is an interesting story. The Norwegian government planned to build a seed bank here, but this is the world of polar bears. There are many polar bears wandering around the mountain and on the mountain every day. In the face of these powerful polar bears, the builders can only show kindness and strength, feed and eat It was armed guards who made peace with them and finally repaired the seed bank. Then, when the seed bank was repaired, these polar bears became the natural guards of the seed bank. In order to express their gratitude to the polar bears, the Norwegian government erected such a statue of polar bears at the gate of the seed bank. "The party all smiled.Mickey continued: "This seed bank is built on the hillside of 130 meters above sea level, which is high enough to ensure that even if there is a nuclear war in the future, the global glaciers will melt and the sea water will not submerge here. Moreover, it is located in the high latitude area, which is cold all year round, and the seed bank is built in the permafrost. Therefore, even if the air conditioning equipment inside is completely ineffective, it can be in a cold place all year round In this seed bank, the seeds of important crops such as wheat, barley and peas can be preserved for up to 1000 years, while the sorghum seeds with the longest viability can be stored for about 19500 years. "Yang Jing asked curiously, "what is the structure in this?"Mickey shook his head and said: "I haven't been in, but I've heard of the structure inside. The seed bank goes more than 100 meters deep into the mountain and is completely made of reinforced concrete up to one meter thick. Its core area is three side-by-side independent cold rooms at the end of the passage, each 27 meters long, 9.5 meters wide and 5 meters high. The metal doors of each cold room are covered with ice and frost.""At present, only one of the three refrigerated rooms is used, and the other two are still empty. But this refrigerated room is also equipped with three keys, one of which is worn by the director of the seed bank, the other is in the hands of the Norwegian government, and the remaining key is unknown. I'm afraid only the people of the Norwegian government know the real identity of the wearer of the last key. Only When all three keys are put together, you can open the refrigerator. "Chris smiled. "It's as safe as the Fort Knox vault."Mickey nodded: "Almost. Even if it is not as good as the Fort Knox vault, it is estimated that it is not much worse. This seed bank is built according to the standard that it can resist nuclear bomb bombardment and magnitude 7 earthquake. I don't know whether the atomic bomb can withstand it, but what I know is that a magnitude 6.2 earthquake occurred here a week before the completion of this seed bank, longier Many buildings in the city have collapsed, but there is nothing here. "Chris nodded and said, "this seed bank is really strong."Mickey said: "That's natural. In addition to its ability to resist external forces, this seed bank is also absolutely commendable in terms of internal security. In the middle of the three cold rooms from the door to the core area is a 100 meter long tunnel with five explosion-proof steel doors. Without corresponding keys and passwords, outsiders simply don't want to break there by violence. Moreover, in this way Inside the road, there are people patrolling with guns 24 hours a day. Especially the three cold rooms in the core area, outsiders can't go in. "After a pause, Mickey smiled and said: "Less than half a month after the completion of the seed bank, Norway's crown prince Magnus came here and offered to see the cold room in the core area, but he was refused. After a while, former US President Carter also came to visit the seed bank. At that time, he also proposed to go to the cold room in the core area, which was also closed.""The security here is so strict?" asked Ge in surprise"Well, what is so strict? After all, it is the last hope of human beings. It is not what anyone can enter. There is a saying that everyone agrees." human beings are dying. Here has the final say. "Here are about eight hundred thousand kinds of seeds stored in plants, and there is no seed left for transgenic plants. This is guaranteed. The purity of species. Therefore, this is an important place for all mankind. It's natural that the security is so tight. "Yang Jing asked, "have the seeds stored here ever been useful?""Yes," Mickey nodded affirmatively, "The Syrian civil war in September 2015 killed hundreds of thousands of people and forced about 11 million people to become refugees. During the war, the main seed bank in Aleppo in the Middle East was damaged and unusable. The Syrian civil war forced Middle Easterners to take seeds from the 'Doomsday Seed Bank' for the first time. Middle Easterners first applied, and then took them out here Nearly 130 of the 325 boxes previously stored here and a total of 116000 copies of crop seed backups. This is the first time since the establishment of the world seed bank. "Mickey shrugged his shoulders and spread his hands. "See, this is the greatness of this seed bank!"The party stood in front of the seed bank. Svalbard airport was opposite the road below the mountain, and the Bay was to the east of the airport. Langil city was to the southeast of the seed bank, and many residents and tourists were shuttling through the small city.A female bear with two cubs appeared on the top of the mountain above the seed bank. It may have just had a full meal. The three women just stood on the top of the mountain and silently watched these people, then shook their heads and turned away. The two cubs behind his ass happily followed his mother while playing and running.Further away, the glacier opposite the Bay emits a strange color close to gold under the sunlight, which complements the blue sky and the sea, forming a more beautiful scenery than a painting.The air is full of the fishy smell of the sea, mixed with a trace of the fragrance of flowers and plants. Although it is already in the Arctic Circle, there are still tenacious plants that strive to grow, blossom and bear fruit with the help of the warm and short two or three months in summer.In any case, the city is not brilliant. Bad weather, inconvenient transportation. Even food can't be self-sufficient. It can only be transported in from the outside.But it is such a small city, but it contains a kind of greatness.Yes, it is the existence of this "Doomsday Seed Bank" that makes this northernmost city in the world great.Maybe one year in the future, there will be a nuclear war like the terminator, a biochemical war like the biochemical crisis, or a disaster like the day after tomorrow or even 2012.After such a disaster, if mankind wants to stand up again, this seed bank hidden deep in the mountains and the seed bank secretly built by other countries will completely become mankind's last hope.With her weak body, this city tenaciously bears the last hope of mankind all over the world. With this alone, this city can be called "great".It seems that he felt Yang Jing's idea. Dabai came up, stretched out his tongue and licked Yang Jing's hand, and smiled. Dabai's idea is very clear - there is me here, and I will guard the city.At this time, a group of tourists came up from the foot of the mountain. Some of them were large and small. They looked like a big family. Of course, these people were also led by a local guide.Mickey and the tour guide obviously knew each other very well. After a few words of greeting, Mickey took Yang Jing and they left the door of the seed bank.At the foot of the mountain, Mickey said: "In fact, there are not only the seed bank we saw just now in langil City, but also two seed banks on this mountain and that mountain. One is the seed bank entrusted by Iceland to the Norwegian government, and the other is the Norwegian seed bank built by the Norwegian government itself. However, the scale of the two seed banks is not so large, and the storage is Iceland and Norway Each family has its own plant seeds. "In less than two hours, the party finished visiting the small town. Led by Mickey, the party came to a restaurant on the edge of the bay for dinner.The arrival of Da Bai made the restaurant owner very happy. Obviously, the boss watched the live TV broadcast yesterday. However, because there were many people eating in the restaurant, Yang Jing and his party were guided to eat in a separate room in the east of the restaurant. No matter how much the restaurant owner liked Da Bai, he would not let Da Bai appear in the restaurant.Lunch food is very rich, mostly local specialties, such as whale meat and seal meat.It is worth mentioning that when Yang Jing learned that there were fresh seals here, Yang Jing directly spent $2000 to buy a newly captured seal, and then pushed it to the beach with a small cart, so that Dabai could enjoy the seal alone there - Dabai's meal was very bloody. It certainly could not eat in this separate room, otherwise Yang Jing and them would not eat.Although Dabai likes to eat meat, it prefers to eat seal fat. Especially at the end of summer, after polar bears hunt seals, they don't eat seal meat at all, but only eat the fat.As for the remaining meat of seals, it's cheaper for those arctic foxes following the polar bear
