After climbing out of the water, the turtle first raised its head and looked left and right, which is very interesting, the turtle's body is attached to the sand, and its neck is stretched out, like a head growing out of the sand.

Seeing this, Ao Muyang couldn't help but laugh: "Hey, this ghost ......"

Lu Zhizi kicked him hard in the leg: "Why are you like this now? If you don't say hooligan words, will you suffocate to death?"

Ao Muyang said stupidly: "No, what I want to say is the appearance of this ghostly head, how can he look like the snake king at home?"

Li Ji was puzzled: "Yes, what kind of hooligan is this?"

Lu Zhizi stopped talking, she believed in Ao Muyang.

After lying on the shore and watching for more than ten minutes, the turtle finally moved again and slowly climbed onto the beach.

Seeing this, Li Ji's face turned straight and said, "This is a female turtle, it's about to lay eggs!"

Climbing ashore, the turtle's movements became more and more clumsy.

It had no claws, only fin-like limbs, and it was not easy for this thing to crawl through the sand, and it was very heavy, leaving two wide turtle paths on the beach, like crawlers rolling over.

The three of them were silent and watched this scene in silence.

The turtle climbed a distance of about forty or fifty meters in total, during which it rested three times, making Ao Muyang so anxious that he couldn't wait to drag it to the beach.

Eventually, the female turtle stopped at a beach in the highlands where the sea could not be flooded.

At this moment, a dog barked in the distant village.

Li Ji exclaimed: "I want to suffer!"

Because of the distance, the barking of the dog was already very low after it came, and Ao Muyang said in a low voice: "Will this also scare the female turtle?"

The female turtles before breeding are extremely cautious, and they immediately return to the sea at the slightest hint of wind and grass and human light.

Many hunters and some wild animals often wait to catch the female turtle that lays eggs on land during this period, and once it is lifted on land, the turtle can only wait to die, so the turtle is particularly vigilant at this time.

Fortunately, the turtle just shrunk its head and didn't go back.

Li Ji breathed a sigh of relief and said: "We met a bold sea turtle, I made a report on turtle laying eggs a few years ago, and I surveyed 251 female turtles on land, and 102 of them returned to the sea immediately after landing for various reasons. Of course, sooner or later, they will have to land again, the shortest interval is more than half an hour, and the longest interval is five or six days!"

Although it did not flee back into the sea, the turtle did not lay eggs immediately, and it looked out there.

Ao Muyang waited for another half an hour, it still did not lay eggs, but another turtle climbed up, it seems that it is also here to prepare to lay eggs, this is the only fun in the boring waiting process.

Li Ji comforted him and said: "Be patient, turtles are very serious in choosing the place to lay eggs, which must be conducive to the hatching of eggs, but also not easy to be discovered and destroyed by enemies, so it takes a long time, an average of 95 minutes." However, it should be soon, and the time for them to choose their spawning grounds is usually half an hour. ”

This time they came across a milling sea turtle that had been on the shore for an hour, changing locations several times and not laying eggs.

Of course, it moved very closely, crawling out of two or three meters at most, and in any case it circled around the place it had chosen at the beginning.

However, the female turtle that climbed ashore behind her was brighter and more cheerful, and she found a place and began to work hard.

The turtle first dug a hole in the sand little by little with its forelimbs, and after digging for a while, it lay on its stomach for a while, and finally stopped when it dug the hole to a depth equal to its own height.

After resting for a while, it lay down in the pit, and then alternately dug a vertical pit under the ass with its two hind limbs.

Li Ji said in a low voice: "This is the egg pit, and the turtle treats everything all its life with the most careful treatment." ”

Ao Muyang saw this, although the turtle looked old and clumsy after coming ashore, but its hind limbs were very dexterous when digging the pit, its forelimbs were digging a big hole when it was digging sand outward, and when digging the egg pit, its hind paws became a spoon, scooping out the sand particles little by little, carefully lifting them up and throwing them out of the pit, even throwing them far away.

The turtle had finally started digging holes, and both turtles were digging in the sand, and for a moment the whole beach was rustling except for the sound of the waves.

The rest is to lay eggs, because their bodies are hidden in the pit, and the three of Ao Muyang can't see the eggs they lay.

But the two turtles did choose to lay their eggs on the beach, and the process was relatively short, at most 10 minutes after the eggs were laid, and the turtles raised their heads and looked around, burying the egg pits with their hind limbs in the sand as they looked.

Eventually, they crawl out of the bunker pit and fill it up with their forelimbs pushing the sand until the beach is flattened and the turtles slowly return to the sea......

At this time, Ao Muyang looked at his phone, it was already half past one in the morning!

After staying up all night, the old man was not sleepy at all.

His eyes widened excitedly and said, "Stone hammer, hey, the turtle really laid eggs here, the green turtle chose the beach outside your village as a spawning ground, this is really a big discovery!"

As he spoke, he asked Lu Zhizi again: "Teacher Xiaolu, how is your video?"

Lu Zhizi looked at the video and said: "There is no problem at all, I used the night scene shooting mode, which is quite clear." ”

Ao Muyang said: "Let's go back to sleep first, and I'll find someone to protect this side tomorrow." ”

If Li Ji can help Longtou Village apply for the next turtle nature reserve, it will be of great help to the village's tourism development.

When he was bored before, he checked on the Internet, and there is only one turtle national nature reserve in China, that is, the Luofu City Nature Reserve located at the junction of Daya Bay and Red Bay, which is a member of the International Biosphere Conservation Network, and is included in the list of wetlands of international importance under the Ramsar Convention, and the state allocates tens of millions of dollars for the reserve every year!

The benefits of being the first vice-captain were once again demonstrated, and Ao Muyang contacted the other three vice-captains to develop a law enforcement team patrol list, and arranged team members to protect the reef beach every day.

In addition, he must be busy with turtle affairs these days, and he has no time to keep an eye on Wangjia Village.

Therefore, he strengthened the law enforcement team's maritime law enforcement, especially arranging a ship to patrol the open sea in the area of Longtou Village-Wangjia Village.

He explained that the move was to prevent people from poaching turtles from the sea. In fact, he was trying to make Wangjia Village jealous and not dare to send a boat to the sea to do illegal work.

Wang Youwei naturally disagreed, he was also a vice captain, but it was useless, Ao Muyang directly moved out of the two big Buddhas of Dai Zongxi and Su Jinnan.

Dai Zongxi approved the law enforcement team's efforts to protect the turtle habitat, after all, it was a big deal for the entire Red Ocean, and Su Jinnan arranged for the coast guard to come to the waters outside the village to cooperate with law enforcement, because Ao Muyang told him that Wangjia Village might be involved in smuggling activities.

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