Listening to Chen Xin's words, Yan Yinghao suddenly said: "Old Chen, you said that Eve's life was in danger before, could it be related to laying eggs?"

Without waiting for Chen Xin to answer, he said to himself: "This is very likely, at the beginning, Eve's symptoms such as decreased vitality, decreased appetite, and emotional anxiety were likely to be her pregnancy reactions." ”

"We thought it had gastrointestinal problems, so we stopped eating and drinking, which caused it to not get enough energy to supply the eggs in time, and could only use its own energy to transfer the supply. ”

In this way, it is slow to receive energy replenishment, but continues to lose energy, which leads to further deterioration of its health. Eventually, it needs a lot of energy after entering the spawning period recently, and we still can't supply it, so it can only go into suspended animation to protect the organism until it returns to its normal diet when it comes to the reserve......"

Chen Xin gasped and said, "So that's the case?"

Li Ji shook his head and said: "Pull it down, I think this turtle is dystocia, and the previous symptoms are all caused by dystocia." ”

Yan Yinghao said: "This statement is untenable, teacher, if Eve had a difficult birth, then how could she suddenly become normal after she came to the reserve two days ago?"

Li Ji said: "If it lacks energy, then it has no strength to lay eggs, let alone normal turtle eggs. ”

Yan Yinghao sighed and said: "That's what I'm afraid of, last year Eve laid five nests of eggs, but none of them successfully hatched......

"Wait, Eve laid five clutches of eggs last year?" Li Ji showed a surprised expression, "Didn't the turtle lay two clutches of eggs a year?"

Yan Yinghao said: "Normally, this is the case, but Eve moved to us from the zoo last year, and when she was an animal, she had a smaller space to move, but after she arrived at us, she had an exclusive space, and a good environment such as beach shrubs, so she had a lot of activity and a large amount of food intake, so we guessed that it was the eggs that had accumulated before and did not come out, and she increased the amount of ovulation after coming to us." ”

Ao Muyang said: "Then this time I changed the environment again and ovulated again?"

Yan Yinghao waved his hand and said: "Of course not, this time it suddenly ovulated is also very unreasonable, we didn't expect it to lay eggs in this season, so we didn't think about it when we found that it had physical problems before, we should have thought of it a long time ago." ”

At this, he stamped his foot in frustration.

Ao Muyang said: "Okay, don't regret it first, let's find a way to put these turtle eggs in the incubator first." ”

Yan Yinghao smiled bitterly: "It may be useless, if my guess is correct, then these eggs will definitely not be able to hatch, because turtle eggs do not have enough energy supply during development, and they are congenitally stunted." ”

Ao Muyang waved his hand and said: "You don't have to worry about this, you must have guessed wrong, it is depression, your living environment over there is still not good, these turtle eggs will definitely hatch." ”

He comforted himself with this, he felt that what Yan Yinghao said was really right, this unlucky turtle was almost starved to death, otherwise so many experts would not be able to detect symptoms when they examined it?

Chen Xin, who has been paying attention to Eve's spawning, said: "Don't make any noise, this time Eve is too good at laying eggs, and it has already laid six!"

Turtle turtles can lay two or three eggs at a time, at most five, and it is indeed very rare to produce six turtle eggs.

Li Ji insisted and said: "Its previous symptoms were caused by dystocia, and the number of turtle eggs formed in Eve's body this time is too large. ”

There were indeed quite a few of them, and Eve held back for a while, and finally held back two eggs again.

In other words, it produced a total of eight turtle eggs this time!

Li Ji asked the students to bring the hatching box, and they had to go and grab the turtle eggs.

The incubator in the reserve is very modern, with a thermostat on the top of the box, the box is transparent for easy observation, and there are two shelves inside, one shelf is sand and the other is water, and the hatching of the turtle needs to maintain a constant temperature and maintain a humidity of 25%.

After laying her eggs, Eve lay down on the beach and rested, resting from morning to afternoon, and when she regained her strength, she got up and walked away, ignoring the eggs behind her......

It's the nature of all turtles, and it's the same way for turtles to lay their eggs in a bunker, bury them, and then migrate into the sea on their own.

But for conservationists, the nature of the female turtle is a help, and if the female turtle cares for her cubs like a mammal, the conservation work is really difficult to carry out.

Chen Xin picked up the turtle eggs one by one, holding them in both hands as treasures.

Ao Muyang followed up to see the turtle eggs of the turtle up close, but the result was nothing special, but the turtle eggs were not very good-looking when they looked closely, the egg shell was a little thin, with black lines on it.

Eve's spawning, Chen Xin and Yan Yinghao can't leave, and Li Ji doesn't want to let Eve go, he wants to take Adam over together to increase the weight of the reserve.

This time, Ao Muyang didn't care, because even if the turtles were brought to the reserve, tourists would not be able to visit them, and in order to protect them, the state did not allow non-professionals to come into contact with them.

However, Eve's success in laying eggs and unusually eight eggs became news, in fact, Eve's resurrection was news.

It was not Ao Muyang who poked the news out, but Li Ji, who attributed the turtle's successful recovery to the reserve, and he deliberately contacted the media to promote the reserve.

In addition, the purpose of promoting the reserve is not for himself, but to make the reserve more visible, so that he can get more special funds in the future.

Knowing that one of the only two turtles in China has turned from near death to healthy and successfully laid a number of turtle eggs, this news value is still quite valuable for the media, and since mid-May, the media in many provinces and cities have interviewed and broadcast about it.

Because the reserve is in Longtou Village, when the recent situation of the turtle and the reserve are introduced, Longtou Village is also publicized, making Longtou Village more famous.

The weather is warm, the number of tourists is increasing, and as soon as the media publicizes this, more tourists come to the village.

This is nothing, one morning in the middle of the year, Lu Zhichao, who had just been promoted to a senior town official last year, suddenly called Ao Muyang, saying that CCTV was coming to the reserve to record a program.

Lao Ao was stunned when he received the news, and he asked, "Secretary Lu, is the news reliable?"

Lu Zhichao said: "Hurry up and prepare for the reception work, the people's working group has already arrived at the town party committee, we will arrange for them to rest for a while, and then go to your village." ”

Ao Muyang said: "That's no problem, what do we have to prepare here?"

Lu Zhichao said: "You should have experience in this area, prepare a lunch, welcome ceremony and gifts and the like are exempt, now I don't want to do this." By the way, don't make the dinner too grand......"

"It's just a light meal with the big guys, don't stew the turtles. A crisp voice came into Ao Muyang's ears along the phone.