Sea turtles are no bigger than freshwater turtles, almost all of them are large enough, and the smallest is the hawksbill turtle, which can grow to 80 centimeters long and weigh 50 or 60 kilograms.

Leatherback turtles are giants among sea turtles, they are the largest, can grow to three or four meters long, Nicholas Si Ye is not three or four meters long, that is also two and a half meters, in the face of masters, from the point of view of the size of it has an absolute advantage.

But if you really want to fight, then the fourth turtle must not be good, the real snapping turtle is indeed not as big as the leatherback turtle, but all of them are small combat experts, especially the master who can chase the bear around the strongman, that is not to be provoked.

Gui Si knew this, so if he usually wanted to go ashore to bask in the sun, he would immediately drill into the sea without looking back when he saw the shadow of the master.

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

The turtle rushed very fast, but the so-called concentrated is the essence, in the face of the big leatherback turtle that rushed up with great momentum, the master calmly glanced at it, and the strong body came to a fight, quickly turned around for half a circle, turned around and ran.

In this way, the turtle staggered all of a sudden, and the master turned his head slowly, 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, a picture of a turtle being lonely as snow:

This vertical and horizontal fishing ground for more than ten days, biting all the tigers, leopards, bears and wolves, defeating the turtles, birds, deer and rats, the fishery is even more resistant, helpless, but secluded in the grass. Friends with the wind. Woohoo, I can't get an opponent in my life. Cheng is embarrassed by loneliness.

The master is not interested in fighting with the leatherback turtle, he will win. There is a ball meaning, it just wants to tease Gui Si, but Qin Shiou didn't give it this chance, and dragged it back with his tail, and lost face.

If you can, the master really wants to retract his head into the turtle shell, it's too embarrassing, and he is dragged by his tail to run away.

Unfortunately, real snapping turtles are not sea turtles. Its head and limbs could not be retracted, and it could only stretch out helplessly in disgrace.

Without danger, the females began to lay eggs with confidence, and they laid eggs slowly at first, and one by one they laid out at a uniform rate. But as you find the rhythm, it gets faster, and you have to lay four or five eggs at a time, four or five eggs at a time......

Along with the excretion of the eggs, there is also mucus, which binds the sand to the eggs. It can play a protective role.

Later, one after another, female turtles climbed onto the beach, and Qin Shiou calculated while taking pictures, from noon to three o'clock in the afternoon. A total of thirty-five female turtles climbed up!

That's a significant number.

From the beginning of the sun's westward setting, no female turtles lay eggs, and some climbed ashore. But it's just a search for a place to spawn.

Qin Shiou didn't understand this, but after he posted a photo of the leatherback turtle laying eggs on Weibo. A blogger who knows the relevant knowledge left him a message explaining the truth:

There are two types of sex determination in turtles: genotypic sex determination (GSD) and temperature-dependent sex determination (TSD). Leatherback turtles belong to the latter, and the sex of the hatched turtles is related to the temperature of the sand in the hatchery site, the higher the ambient temperature, the higher the proportion of hatched female turtles, which is another wonder of nature.

For leatherback turtles, which are now becoming fewer and fewer in number, it is natural that the more female turtles, the better, because the female turtles represent the ability to continue the race.

In the next few days, 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 overall number of scattered turtles is more than 100!

Considering that there are less than 5,000 leatherback turtles left in the world, and less than half of them are females, this number is rather frightening.

Interestingly, no matter which time, as long as a female turtle comes ashore, the fourth turtle will dutifully climb onto the beach as a bodyguard, although it always dances non-mainstream street dance, but Qin Shiou still admires it as a man.

Qin Shiou's Weibo often popularizes some knowledge of marine environmental protection, and he posted a photo of the spawning of leatherback turtles, telling about the difficulty of this race to reproduce, and hoping that everyone can protect them after seeing them.

The number of leatherback turtles has plummeted, and the killing 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 full of treasures.

Leatherback turtle meat is edible, said to be more delicious and nutritious than beef, and has long been regarded as a premium dish in Japan and Indonesia. Its deck can be boiled into bone glue, which is no less than an advanced tonic of ejiao, which can nourish yin and yang, and is good for the treatment of forgetfulness, insomnia, liver cirrhosis, stomach bleeding, and lung disease.

In addition, turtle paw can strengthen the stomach, tonify the kidney, go to 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 quite unlucky, in the 90s they suffered a hunting boom, and in the 21st century, the marine pollution began to be severe, and there were plastic film garbage bags everywhere, which caused them more harm.

It's not just Qin Shiou who wants to protect leatherback turtles, there is an organization in North America that is affiliated with the International Wildlife Conservation Society called Leatherback Turtle Conservation Organization, which has been working to protect this endangered species.

The Dermochelys-coriacea-Protection-Society, or DPS for short, has a greater influence in North America, with more members than leatherback turtles.

Dai Guangjian is a member of this organization.,He joined this organization two years ago when he was studying at the University of Toronto.,The reason is that there are a lot of cute girls in it.,At that time, he was an introverted and shy single dick.,Hell-bent on getting a big Yanma abroad.,So he joined the organization in various ways.。

Later it turned out that the introverted and shy single dick is only worthy of playing with the left and right hands.,It's not the same thing to join any organization.,He worked very hard in DPS at the beginning.,It's a pity that he still didn't win the heart of the girl.。

But the east is not bright and the west is bright, although he didn't hook up with a girl when he joined DPS, he exercised his communication skills and met a lot of friends.

And as he learned more about the leatherback turtle, the more he fell in love with this large, docile animal, and slowly he forgot his original intention of joining DPS, and it seemed that he wanted to maintain the species in the first place.

After returning to China, he was busy with work and blind dates, occasionally looking 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 the leatherback turtle all day long, but is that really the self who is now opening the garage and closing his mouth about money? (To be continued......)