Chapter 710

Sea turtles are no bigger than freshwater turtles. Almost all of them are large enough. The smallest is the hawksbill, which can grow to 80 cm long and weigh 50 or 60 kg.

Leatherback turtles are giants among sea turtles. They are the largest, and can grow to three or four meters long. Nicholas fourth master is less than three or four meters long, which is also two and a half meters. In the face of experts, it has an absolute advantage in terms of size.

But if you really want to fight, the fourth master of the turtle can't. the real crocodile turtle is really not as big as the leatherback turtle, but the top is a little expert in fighting, especially the strong man who can chase the bear.

The fourth turtle knew this, so if he wanted to go ashore to bask in the sun, he would not go back to the sea when he saw the shadow of an expert.

But not this time. The female turtles in its group are laying eggs and continuing their blood. It doesn't allow anything to destroy this, so it takes the initiative to attack the fourth turtle to divert its attraction.

In a threatening manner, the passing of four turtle is also fast. It is the essence of the so-called concentrated essence. Facing the fierce leathering of the big leatherback turtle, the master glanced at it with a cool glance. The strong body came to a passing of night and quickly turned around half way, and turned around and ran.

In this way, the turtle four suddenly passed by. The master turned back slowly, opened his big mouth full of sharp teeth and was ready to attack.

Qin Shiou rushed after him, grabbed the master's steel whip tail, and ran back. The master was dragged behind, with a lonely posture like snow:

For more than ten days, this fishing ground has bitten all tigers, leopards, bears and wolves, defeated all turtles, birds, deer and mice, and has no resistance. It has no choice but to live in seclusion in the haystack and make friends with the wind. Alas, I beg an enemy in my life and can't get it. It's really lonely and embarrassing.

The master was not interested in fighting with the leatherback turtle. He was sure to win. There was a ball meaning. He just wanted to tease the turtle four, but Qin Shiou didn't give it the chance. He dragged his tail back to it, leaving no face.

If you can, the master really wants to retract his head into the turtle shell. It's a shame to be dragged by others.

Unfortunately, the real crocodile turtle is not a turtle. Its head and limbs can't be taken back. It can only stretch out and lose face.

Without danger, female turtles began to lay eggs at ease. At first, they laid eggs slowly and gave birth one by one at a uniform speed. But as we find the rhythm, the speed is faster. We have to lay four or five eggs every four or five seconds

Along with the turtle eggs are discharged mucus, which binds sand and turtle eggs together, which can play a protective role.

Later, female turtles climbed onto the beach again and again. Qin Shiou took photos and calculated that a total of 35 female turtles climbed up from noon to three o'clock in the afternoon!

This is a considerable number.

Since the sun began to tilt westward, no female turtles have laid eggs. Some have climbed ashore, but they just look for spawning sites.

Qin Shiou didn't understand this, but after he posted photos of leatherback turtles laying eggs on his microblog, some bloggers with relevant knowledge left him a message to explain the truth:

There are two types of turtle sex determination: genotype sex determination (GSD) and temperature dependent sex determination (TSD). Leatherback turtles belong to the latter. The sex of hatching turtles is related to the sand temperature of the hatching site. The higher the ambient temperature, the higher the proportion of hatching female turtles, which is another wonder of nature.

For leatherback turtles with fewer and fewer numbers, it is natural that the more female turtles, the better, because female turtles represent the ability of ethnic continuity.

In the next few days, leatherback turtles set a spawning time, from 11 noon to 3 pm, which will not exceed this time period.

The fewer leatherback turtles come out to lay eggs, but the overall total is more than 100!

Considering that there are only less than 5000 leatherback turtles in the world, and the number of female turtles is less than half, this number is terrible.

Interestingly, no matter which time, as long as a female turtle comes ashore, the fourth master of the turtle will dutifully climb onto the beach as a bodyguard. Although he always dances non mainstream street dance, Qin Shiou still admires him as a man.

Qin Shiou's microblog often popularizes some knowledge of marine environmental protection. He posted the oviposition photos of leatherback turtles to tell about the difficulty of this race's reproduction. I hope you can protect them after seeing them.

The sharp decline in the number of leatherback turtles is also an important reason for being hunted. In the eyes of Qin Shiou, a super fishing ground, it has no economic value, but in the eyes of some people, it is full of treasure.

Leatherback turtle meat is edible. It is said to be more delicious and nutritious than beef. It has been regarded as a top-grade delicacy in Japan and Indonesia. Its deck can be boiled into bone glue. It is no less than donkey hide gelatin. It can nourish yin and Yang. It is good for the treatment of forgetfulness, insomnia, liver cirrhosis, gastric bleeding and lung diseases.

In addition, turtle palm can strengthen the stomach, kidney, remove fire and brighten the eyes. Turtle oil and turtle blood can treat asthma and tracheitis. Turtle eggs are more nutritious eggs than eggs and duck eggs. Turtle bile has the highest value and can fight cancer!

Therefore, before countries jointly included leatherback turtles in the ranks of animal protection, there was a global turtle hunting fever.

Leatherback turtles are also unlucky. They suffered a hunting boom in the 1990s. At the beginning of the 21st century, marine pollution was serious, and there were plastic film garbage bags everywhere, which did more harm to them.

Qin Shiou is not the only one who wants to protect leatherback turtles. There is an organization affiliated to the International Wildlife Conservation Association in North America called leatherback turtle conservation organization, which has been committed to protecting this endangered species.

The English name of this organization is Dermochelys coriacea protection society, or DPS for short. It has a great influence in North America and has more members than leatherback turtles.

Dai Guangjian is a member of this organization. He joined this organization when he studied at the University of Toronto two years ago. The reason is that there are many cute girls in it. At that time, he was an introverted and shy single loser who wanted to make a big ocean horse abroad, so he joined various organizations.

Later, it turned out that the introverted and shy single loser only deserved to play with his left and right hands. He didn't join any organization. He worked hard at DPS at the beginning, but unfortunately he didn't win his sister's heart.

But the East is not bright and the west is bright. Although he joined DPS and didn't hook up with his sister, he exercised his communication skills and made many friends.

And as he learned more about leatherback turtles, he became more and more fond of this huge and gentle animal. Slowly, he forgot his original intention of joining DPS and seemed to want to maintain this species.

Later, after studying abroad and returning home, he gradually lost contact with the association. After returning home, he was busy with work and blind dates. Occasionally, he looked back on the past and felt that the introverted Xiao Dai who was enthusiastic about public welfare seemed very strange.

Sometimes when he wakes up in the middle of the night, he will think of the silly otaku and the enthusiastic boy who is busy for the world and leatherback turtles all day. However, is that really the man who keeps his mouth shut about money in this garage?