Seven Hundred and Three. DPS Three / Ten

( ) Sea turtles are no different than freshwater turtles. Almost all of them are large enough. The smallest is the hawksbill turtle, which can grow to 80 centimeters long and weigh 50 to 60 kilograms.

Leatherback turtles are giants among sea turtles. They are the largest and can grow up to four meters long. Nicholas Siye is less than four meters long, and he is also two and a half meters long. Facing a master, he has an absolute advantage in terms of size. Advantage.

But if you really want to fight, then the fourth master of the turtle will definitely not be able to do it. The real snapping turtle is indeed not as big as the leatherback turtle, but they are all small experts in fighting, especially a strong man like a master who can chase bears around. It is not to be messed with.

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

But not this time, the female turtles in its group are laying eggs and continuing their bloodlines, and it does not allow anything to destroy this, so it actively attacks Turtle Four, trying to divert its attraction.

The tortoise is also quite fast, but what is said to be concentrated is the essence. Facing the big leatherback turtle rushing up aggressively, the master glanced at it calmly, and his strong body turned around and turned half a circle quickly. , turn around and run away.

In this way, Gui Si passed by in a flash, 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 tail of the master's steel whip, and ran back. The master was dragged behind in a dispirited manner, with a posture as lonely as snow:

This seat spanned the fishing grounds for more than ten days, biting all tigers, leopards, bears and wolves, and defeating all turtles, birds, deer and mice. Make the wind your friend. Woohoo, you can't find an opponent in your life. Sincerely lonely and embarrassing.

Experts are not interested in fighting leatherback turtles, will they win? There is a ball meaning, it just wants to tease Guisi, but Qin Shiou doesn't give it this chance, drags its tail and drags it back, without any embarrassment.

If it is possible, the master really wants to retract his head into the turtle shell, it would be embarrassing to be dragged by his tail.

Unfortunately, real snapping turtles are not sea turtles. Its head and limbs couldn't be retracted, so it could only stretch out helplessly and lose face.

There is no danger, and the female turtles start to lay eggs with confidence. Their egg laying speed is relatively slow at first, and they lay eggs one by one at a uniform speed. But as the rhythm is found, the speed is fast, and it will be produced every four or five seconds, four or five eggs at a time...

Along with the turtle eggs are excreted mucus, which binds the sand and turtle eggs together. Can play a protective role.

Later, female turtles climbed onto the beach one after another. Qin Shiou took pictures while calculating,

From noon to one o'clock in the afternoon. A total of fifteen female turtles climbed up!

This is a very impressive number.

Since Yang Xixie, no female tortoise has laid eggs, and some have climbed ashore. But also just looking for spawning sites.

Qin Shiou didn't understand this at first, but after he posted the photo of the leatherback turtle laying eggs on Weibo. A blogger with relevant knowledge left a message to him, 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 category. The sex of hatchlings is related to the sand temperature of the hatchery. The higher the ambient temperature, the higher the proportion of hatched female turtles. This is another wonder of nature.

For leatherback turtles, whose number is decreasing, it is natural that the more female turtles the better, because female turtles represent the ability to continue the race.

In the next few days, the leatherback turtles set a time for laying eggs, from 11:00 noon to 1:00 pm, which will not exceed this time period.

The leatherback turtles that come out to lay eggs are less and less, but in total, there are more than one here and there!

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

What's interesting is that whenever a female turtle comes ashore, Fourth Master Gui will dutifully climb onto the beach to act as a bodyguard. Although it always dances non-mainstream hip-hop dances, Qin Shiou still admires it as a guy.

Qin Shiou's Weibo often spreads some marine environmental protection knowledge. He posted photos of leatherback turtles laying eggs, telling how difficult it is for this species to reproduce, and hoped that everyone would protect them after seeing them.

The number of leatherback turtles has dropped sharply, and being hunted is also an important reason. In the eyes of a super fisherman 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 deck can be boiled into bone glue, which is a high-grade tonic no less than donkey-hide gelatin. It can nourish yin and tonify yang, and is good for the treatment of forgetfulness, insomnia, liver cirrhosis, stomach bleeding and lung disease.

In addition, tortoise palm can invigorate the stomach, invigorate the kidneys, remove fire and improve eyesight, tortoise oil and tortoise blood can treat asthma and bronchitis, tortoise eggs are more nutritious than eggs and duck eggs, tortoise 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.

Speaking of which, leatherback turtles are also quite unlucky. They encountered a hunting boom in the 1990s, and since the 21st century, the oceans have become seriously polluted, and plastic film garbage bags are everywhere, which is even more harmful to them.

Qin Shiou is not the only one who wants to protect the leatherback turtle. In North America, there is an organization affiliated with the International Wildlife Conservation Society called the Leatherback Turtle Conservation Organization, which has been working to protect this endangered species.

The famous name of this organization is ---, dps for short, and it has a relatively large 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 in Toronto University. The reason is that there are many cute girls in it. At that time, he was shy and single. , So various join organizations.

It turned out later that the shy and single Si is only suitable for playing with left and right hands, and it doesn't matter what organization he joins. He worked very hard in DPS back then, but unfortunately he still didn't win the heart of his sister.

But the east side is not bright and the west side is bright. Although he joined dps and didn't hook up with a girl, he exercised his communication skills and met many friends.

And as he learned more about leatherback turtles, he fell in love with this large and docile animal. Slowly, he forgot the original intention of joining dps, as if he wanted to protect this species.

After staying in China and returning to China, his contact with the association gradually decreased. After returning to China, he was busy with work and blind dates. Occasionally reminiscing about the past, he felt that the introverted Xiao Dai who was enthusiastic about public welfare back then seemed very strange.

Sometimes when he wakes up in the middle of the night, he still thinks of that silly otaku, that enthusiastic boy who is busy all day for the world and leatherback turtles, but is that really the self who talks about the garage and keeps his money? (To read the latest chapter of this book, please go to [Fengyu Novels]..)