Sea turtles are no bigger than freshwater turtles. Almost all of them are large enough. The smallest is the hawksbill, which can grow up to 80 centimeters in length and 50 to 60 kilograms in weight.

Leatherback turtles are giants among sea turtles. They are the largest and can grow to three or four meters long. Nicholas Siye is less than three or four meters long, but it is also two and a half meters long. Facing a master, look at it from the bulk Have an absolute advantage.

But if you really want to fight, then the four masters of the tortoise will definitely not work. The real snapping turtle is really not as big as the leatherback turtle, but it is a small combatant, especially a strong man like a master who can chase bears. You can't mess with it.

  Guisi knows this, so if you usually want to go ashore to bask in the sun, you can see the shadow of the master and dive into the sea without looking back.

  But not this time, the female turtles in its group are laying eggs and continuing their bloodline. It does not allow anything to destroy this, so it takes the initiative to attack the turtle four, trying to divert its attraction.

The tortoise rushes quickly, but what is called is the essence. Facing the big leatherback turtle rushing up aggressively, the expert glanced at it calmly, and the strong body came and turned around quickly. , U-turn and run.

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

  Qin Shiou rushed over, grabbed the master’s steel whip tail, and ran back. The master was dragged behind with excitement, showing a lonely and snowy posture:

  This seat has been in the fishing grounds for more than ten days, biting all tigers, leopards, bears, wolves, and tortoises, birds, deer, and rats. The fishing grounds have no resistance. They have no choice but to live in the haystacks. Take the wind as your friend. Woohoo, it's embarrassing to be lonely if you want a rival in your life.

  Masters are not interested in fighting with leatherback turtles, are they sure to win? There was a ball meaning, it just wanted to tease the four turtles, but Qin Shiou didn't give it this opportunity, dragging it back by the tail. Faceless.

  If you can, the master really wants to retract his head into the tortoise shell. It’s too embarrassing to be dragged and run.

  Unfortunately, the true snapping turtle is not a sea turtle. Its head and limbs cannot be retracted, and it can only be stretched out to helplessly embarrass it.

  There is no danger, and the female turtles begin to lay eggs in peace. They spawn slowly at first, and they spawn out one by one at a constant speed. But as soon as the rhythm is found, the speed is fast, and it will spawn once in four or five seconds, four or five eggs at a time...

  Along with the tortoise eggs, there is mucus which binds the sand and the tortoise eggs together and can play a protective role.

  Behind. One after another, female tortoises climbed up to the beach. Qin Shiou took photos while calculating. From noon to 3 o'clock in the afternoon, a total of 35 female tortoises climbed up!

  This is a very impressive number.

  Since the sun is slanting west, there are no more female turtles to lay eggs. Some have climbed ashore, but they are only looking for places to lay their eggs.

  Qin Shiou didn’t understand this at first, but after he posted the photo of leatherback turtle laying eggs on Weibo, a blogger with relevant knowledge left him a message, explaining the truth:

  There are two types of **** determination in turtles: genotype **** determination (GSD) and temperature-dependent **** determination (TSD). Leatherback turtles belong to the latter. The **** of hatched turtles is related to the sand temperature of the hatching site. The higher the environmental temperature, the higher the proportion of hatched female turtles. This is another wonder of nature.

  For leatherback turtles, which are now declining in number. Naturally, the more female tortoises, the better, because female tortoises represent the ability of race continuity.

  A few days later. The leatherback turtles set a time to lay eggs, from 11 noon to 3 pm, which will not exceed this time period.

  The fewer leatherback turtles come out to lay eggs, but the total number is more than a hundred!

  Considering that there are currently less than 5,000 leatherback turtles in the world, and the number of female turtles in them is less than half, then this number is more terrible.

  What’s interesting is that whenever a female tortoise comes ashore, Si Ye will do his duty to climb up to the beach to be a bodyguard. Although he always dances non-mainstream street dance, Qin Shiou still admires him as a man.

  Qin Shiou's Weibo often popularizes some marine environmental protection knowledge. He posted photos of leatherback turtles laying eggs, telling about the difficulty of this race to multiply, and hope that everyone can protect them after seeing them.

The number of leatherback turtles has dropped sharply, and the hunting is also an important reason. In the eyes of super fishermen like Qin Shiou, it has no economic value, but in the eyes of some people, it is a treasure all over.

  Leatherback turtle meat is edible. It is said to be more delicious than beef, and rich in nutrition. It has always been regarded as a delicacy in Japan and Indonesia. Its nail plate can be boiled into bone glue. It is an advanced tonic no less than donkey-hide gelatin. It can nourish yin and nourish yang, and is good for treating forgetfulness, insomnia, liver cirrhosis, stomach bleeding, and lung diseases.

  In addition, the tortoise palm can invigorate the stomach, invigorate the kidneys, and improve eyesight. Turtle oil and blood can treat asthma and bronchitis. Turtle eggs are more nutritious than eggs and duck eggs. Turtle bile has the highest value and can fight cancer!

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

  Speaking of leatherback turtles, they are also quite unlucky. They encountered a hunting boom in the 1990s. Since the 21st century, marine pollution has been serious. There are plastic film garbage bags everywhere, which do more harm to them.

  It is not only Qin Shiou who wants to protect leatherback turtles. There is an organization under 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 relatively large influence in North America and has more members than leatherback turtles.

Dai Guangjian is a member of this organization. He joined this organization two years ago when he was studying abroad at the University of Toronto. The reason was that there were many cute girls in it. At that time, he was an introvert and shy single **** and wanted to buy a big Yanma abroad. So various joined the organization.

  Later, it turns out that the shy and introverted single **** is only suitable for playing with left and right hands. It doesn't matter what organization he joins. He worked very hard in DPS at the beginning, but unfortunately he still didn't win the hearts of his sisters.

  But the east side is not bright, the west side is bright. Although he did not hook up with the girl after joining DPS, he exercised his social skills and made many friends.

   And as he learned more about leatherback turtles, he became more fond of this huge and docile animal. Slowly he forgot his original intention to join DPS. It seemed that he wanted to maintain this species.

  When he returned to China from studying abroad, his contact with the association gradually disappeared. After returning to China, he was busy with work and blind dates, and occasionally recalled the past, and felt that the introverted Xiao Dai who was enthusiastic about public welfare seemed strange.

  Sometimes when he wakes up in the middle of the night, he still thinks of the silly otaku, the enthusiastic boy who is busy all day for the world and the leatherback turtle, but, is that really the self who opens the garage and keeps his money? (To be continued~^~)