Newly hatched sea turtles are called juvenile turtles, very young turtles.

However, compared to land freshwater turtles, green sea turtles are quite large at birth, their dorsal carapace is between four or five centimeters long, and the turtle's head is about the size of a child's palm when it is stretched out.

Newborn green turtles are very dangerous, they are very timid at this time, and they do not have the immobile nature of their father, if there is any wind and grass at this time, they can be scared to death......

In this way, Ao Muyang and Li Jisheng stood on the shore and observed the nesting situation of the baby turtle through a telescope.

One by one, the baby turtles crawl out and then stagger towards the sea, which is quite a sight to behold.

Their dorsal armor is mainly black, and the edges of the dorsal armor and fin margins on the abdomen are white, black and white, and they are simple.

Looking at their determination towards the sea, Ao Muyang exclaimed: "Wow, this little turtle is very powerful, it can climb so far as soon as it was born." ”

"Who told you they were just born?" Li Ji smiled.

Ao Muyang pointed to the beach nest and said, "Didn't they just crawl out?"

Li Ji smiled and shook his head: "They just crawled out, but they have been hatching for several days, at least three or four days, and they stayed around the egg shell for those three or four days, and they didn't leave their nest until today." ”

"It's called lewd development. A Ph.D. student said with a grin.

Li Ji said: "Alas, the temperature on our side is indeed not perfect for the living environment of green sea turtles. ”

"Why do you say that?" asked Ao Muyang.

Li Ji pointed to another nest of baby turtles that were about to crawl out and said, "In order to avoid predators, young turtles usually crawl out of their nests and crawl towards the sea at night when the sand temperature is low in summer. ”

"They hide in the sand, they don't know what the light is outside, they judge whether it's day or night, it's the temperature of the sand. ”

Ao Muyang understood, the early autumn Hongyang day was also a little cold, and the temperature was about the same as the tropical night, and the little turtles thought it was night, so they crawled out.

There is a glass house with a constant temperature on the beach, and the baby turtles are stunned when they find out that it is not night, and they follow the sound of the waves to the seashore, and finally climb into the glass house.

Ao Muyang smiled: "Do they feel the warmth of the glass delivery room?"

Li Jidao: "No, I smeared inducer in it, and the juvenile turtles have a keen perception, and they are attracted by inducer. ”

Normally, when the baby turtle reaches the beach, it will rush into the waves with the sound of the waves, and then swim out to the open sea.

At this time, the baby turtles are very hard, in order to reduce the chance of being encountered by natural predators, they have to swim constantly as soon as they are born, and the first swim may last for a day and a night!

All in all, their desire to survive is quite strong!

There was a clump of seaweed in the glass room, which was a sargassum clump, which was brought by Li Ji.

By nature, baby turtles are supposed to swim away when they enter the glass house, but this is not the case, they burrow into the sargassum mass and then sit still.

Seeing this scene from the telescope, Li Ji couldn't help but pat his thigh: "The juvenile turtles swim non-stop not only to get away from the coast, but also to find a place of refuge, there is no doubt that the sargassum cluster is the place of refuge they have been looking for!"

A student also patted his thigh excitedly: "Teacher, you may uncover the problem of the lost years of the young turtle." ”

"Why are you slapping me on the thigh?" a female doctor rolled her eyes.

Ao Muyang asked, "What is the problem of the lost years of the young turtle?"

"The lost years, that is, the juvenile turtle from returning to the ocean and then growing up to become twenty or thirty centimeters of young turtles, so far no one has seen them near the sea or the seaside, with the development of science and technology, still have not really found their regular place of life, so in reptiology, we all use the 'lost years' to describe the green turtle this period of human invisible juvenile life history. ”

Li Ji seemed to be in a very high mood, and Ao Muyang had no choice but to follow the high-pitched.

He didn't think the speculation was necessarily true, because he had sprinkled water mixed with golden droplets in the sargassum massami, and it was impossible to say that the baby turtle was attracted to it.

Because of the low night temperatures, the juveniles have to stay in the glass house for a while until they are a little stronger before they are allowed to enter the ocean.

Li Ji went to check the situation at the nest left by the young turtles, and after he dug up the sand, there were pieces of turtle shells underneath, some of which were shattered and the young turtles crawled out; some of the shells were only broken a little, and there were dead young turtles inside; and some of the shells were only cracked, and it was obvious that the young turtles inside were too weak to knock open the shells and crawl out.

Faced with this result, Li Ji showed a happy expression on his face.

"Using a thermostat to help the eggs hatch is really effective. When he said this, he was quite optimistic.

"Isn't there still some who are dead?" asked Ao Muyang.

Li Jidao: "If you know that the hatching probability of turtle eggs is only sixty percent, then you know why I am so happy." ”

Hearing this, Ao Muyang understood, indeed, the hatching rate of this litter of turtle eggs is eighty percent.

After three or four days, the eggs hatched, and the juveniles crawled out of their nests and into the glass house, hiding in the sargassum mass and barely visible.

It's their refuge and their food.

Li Ji and his students have been following up on this project, and Ao Muyang continues to lead the team to go to sea, and a steady stream of seafood is sent to the fishing village.

Not far from the Mid-Autumn Festival, seafood sales have entered a climax period, and the night county crabs and Nanhu crabs in Longshu Lake are about to be produced.

Compared with the hairy crabs in Chengyang Lake, the reputation of these crabs is naturally much smaller.

But now most of the hairy crabs are bathing crabs, and almost all of them that flow into the market are not authentic Chengyang Lake hairy crabs, but are bred by foreign traders and sent to Chengyang Lake to soak in the water.

In this case, the freshwater crabs raised in Ambergris Lake naturally taste better, but this is a wild crab, and it takes a year to grow together with the seedlings.

At the beginning, the first phase poured 200,000 crab seedlings into Ambergris Lake, and then Land Rover also made up for it many times, and this year there are many crabs in Ambergris Lake.

Longtou Village must deal with a large army of crabs around the Mid-Autumn Festival, and not leave too many crabs in the lake for the winter, otherwise they will lack food in the winter and will eat up all the water roots and vegetation seeds in the lake.

In this way, how to sell crabs has become a problem again, and it is a happy worry for Longtou Village.

Ao Daodao invited guests to dinner, and someone at the banquet asked Ao Muyang: "These crabs, Boss Lu doesn't want much, the dragon head, how can we sell them all?"

"Can you sell it at a discount, can you sell it if it's cheaper?" said Ao Mudong, drinking wine.

Such a big guy is unwilling: "We fell out with Wangjiacun for this batch of crabs, and then you told me to sell them at a discount?"

Ao Muyang patted the table and said, "I have a number, just leave this to me." ”