Chapter 709

Mao Weilong knew that Qin Shiou was also interested in farming, so when he packed his things, he said, "tomorrow we will go to the farmer seminar in feicui town? You can get to know more about this industry. "

Qin Shiou doesn't care. Anyway, he has nothing to do except to participate in a fishing ground owner's tour recently.

Unfortunately, the plan didn't change as fast as it did. The next morning, he still had to rush back. His family called: "leatherback turtles laid eggs in the fishing ground!"

Leatherback turtle has little effect on the fishing ground and its economic value is not high, but it is very important for the marine biological chain. They are one of the few species that can restrain the crazy reproduction of jellyfish. They are also children of the sea.

Qin Shiou protected leatherback turtles purely from the perspective of public welfare. Later, after he had the ambition to become a sea god, he felt the importance of this behavior.

Fishermen all know his love for leatherback turtles, so as long as leatherback turtles have any problems, they will immediately report to him, and spawning is naturally the top priority, because Qin Shiou once said that leatherback turtles don't seem to like spawning in the fishing ground.

Qin Shiou was overjoyed to learn that leatherback turtles had finally laid eggs on the fishing ground and immediately decided to go back and have a look.

Last year, Qin Shiou bound the tortoise in the fishing ground. As a result, these guys stopped laying eggs.

It can be understood that natural species can quickly form stress changes to protect themselves. For example, the long teeth of African elephants often cause death for them, so now the little elephants' teeth will not grow very long.

For another example, antelope fur has always been a treasure in international fur trading. For this reason, antelopes were slaughtered. Later, slowly, antelope fur began to become more and more rough. They used this means to protect themselves.

Qin Shiou guessed at that time that leatherback turtles might find themselves unable to leave the fishing ground. In order to protect their offspring from slavery, they refused to mate and gave birth to offspring in the fishing ground.

Now, leatherback turtles are finally willing to give birth in the fishing ground. What does this mean? It shows that they regard it as an important survival base, which is a good thing.

The number of leatherback turtles is decreasing day by day. In the 20 years from the end of the 20th century to the beginning of the 21st century, their number has decreased sharply by about 95% due to the change of ocean water temperature caused by El Ni ñ o, illegal fishing by fishermen, marine pollution and local tourism development.

Later, although countries put leatherback turtles into the ranks of protected animals and protected their living places, new killers appeared. People threw plastic bags in the ocean. Leatherback turtles had poor eyesight. They thought it was jellyfish that would eat it. As a result, they did not digest it and finally died of intestinal infarction.

Qin Shiou and Mao Weilong said, had breakfast and returned by helicopter.

After returning to the fishing ground, Winnie deliberately didn't go to work and waited for him. When she saw him back, she said happily, "Shirley found it. In the morning, they went to the farm to pick up eggs as usual. As a result, they found that leatherback turtles came ashore to lay eggs."

The main spawning season of leatherback turtles is from May to June every year. Females need to climb from the ocean to dig holes on the beach to lay eggs. Spawning is usually carried out at night. They are very cautious. If they encounter external interference, they will return to the ocean immediately.

The reason why leatherback turtles lay eggs in the morning may be that they lived in the fishing ground for some time and felt safer, so they climbed onto the beach in the morning.

Leatherback turtles lay eggs in groups. When one female takes the lead, other female turtles will climb onto the beach and lay eggs in the next few days.

As early as the 1960s, 10000 leatherback turtles lived and laid eggs in lanta'a on the east coast of the Malay Peninsula for a week.

Qin Shiou read the relevant information. It was really a grand occasion at that time. At that time, the beach turned blue and black, all of which were female turtles who came ashore to lay eggs.

Unfortunately, this grand occasion has become a legend, and now it has entered the leatherback turtle spawning season. However, according to the Malaysian Fisheries Department, so far this year, only three leatherback turtles have come to ta'a state, and none of them have laid eggs.

If risk factors are not considered, the real golden time for spawning is noon, because no matter what egg, it needs a suitable temperature to hatch.

At noon, the beach temperature is just right, not very high, but full of heat. Turtle eggs will maintain the highest vitality after they are laid in the sand.

On average, a leatherback turtle can lay about 100 eggs during the spawning season, but at least one tenth of them cannot hatch. The reason is that the temperature is inappropriate during spawning, resulting in the freezing death of turtle eggs.

After Qin Shiou came back, he went to the beach at the mouth of the sea. It was noon. The sun was shining and the sand temperature was a little hot, but for the tortoise, it was a suitable temperature for spawning.

One after another, several female leatherback turtles climbed onto the beach. They were from one meter long to two and a half meters long.

In addition to the female turtle, there is also a male turtle on the beach, that is Nicholas turtle four.

The fourth master is patrolling the beach with his street dance ghost steps. Although he shivers when walking, he is really suitable to be a sentry, because his head can rotate constantly, and he can't avoid his eyes.

There is no doubt that these female turtles come ashore to prepare for spawning. They choose the spawning site very carefully, which should not only be conducive to the hatching of eggs, but also not be found and destroyed by enemies.

Seven or eight female turtles climbed up one after another, and then they divided into several routes to find suitable spawning sites on the beach.

Qin Shiou saw that they had not dug the egg hole for a long time, so he understood the reason. He took Winnie to the back lawn to find some shrubs, uprooted them and planted them on the beach at will.

Sure enough, they found shrubs, and the female turtles climbed over happily. On the beach next to the Bush, they first dug a hole with their paddle like forelimbs, dug out a big pit, just about the size of their body, and then their whole body fell into the bunker.

After hiding in the pit, the female turtle's eyes stared around nervously, her hind legs dug down alternately like a shovel, and dug a vertical egg pit under the reproductive hole behind her ass.

At this time, the female turtles will lay eggs.

One characteristic of female turtles is that they are very cautious before laying eggs. They return to the sea immediately after a slight disturbance. But once you start laying eggs, no matter how strong the stimulation, you don't care at all.

The real crocodile turtle master doesn't know when he climbed over. He also lived in this place, so he is very familiar with everything.

Lying on the beach, the master first lamented that the sun and moon were like shuttle, and the Turtle was like a dream. Then he saw the female turtle laying eggs and climbed over curiously.

The female turtles stared at the master nervously, but they were still laying eggs, while Nicholas turtle four rushed over with ghostly steps and hit the master!

As if the Zhiyuan ship hit the little devil's Yoshino ship, the fourth master did not hesitate and moved forward bravely!