Mao Weilong knew that Qin Shiou was also interested in farming, so when he packed his things, he said, "Let's go to the farmer's seminar in Emerald Town tomorrow?" The more you get in touch with this industry, the more you can learn about it. ”

Qin Shiou doesn't care, anyway, he has nothing else to do recently except for a visit to the fisherman.

Unfortunately, the plan was not as fast as the change, and he still had to rush back the next morning, and a call came from home: "The leatherback turtle has laid eggs in the fishing grounds!" ”

Leatherback turtles are not useful for fishing grounds and have little economic value, but they are important for the marine life chain. They are one of the few species that can restrain the wild breeding of jellyfish, and they are also the children of the sea.

Qin Shiou's protection of the leatherback turtle was purely from the perspective of public welfare, and later after he had the ambition to become the god of the sea, he felt the importance of this behavior.

The fishermen all know his love for the leatherback turtle, so as long as there is anything wrong with the leatherback turtle, he will report it to him immediately, and the matter of laying eggs is naturally the top priority, because Qin Shiou once said that leatherback turtles don't seem to like laying eggs in the fishing grounds.

Knowing that the leatherback turtle had finally laid eggs in the fishing ground, Qin Shiou was overjoyed and immediately decided to rush back to have a look.

Last year, Qin Shiou restrained the turtles within the confines of the fishing grounds, and as a result, these guys actually stopped laying eggs.

It is understandable that natural species can quickly form stress changes in order to protect themselves, for example, the long teeth of African elephants often cause them to kill, so the teeth of baby elephants do not grow very long.

Another example is that antelope fur has always been a treasure in the international fur trade, for which antelope suffered a slaughter, and then slowly. The antelope's fur begins to become rougher and rougher, and they use guò as a means to protect themselves.

Qin Shiou guessed at the time. Leatherback turtles may have found themselves unable to leave their fishing grounds in order to protect their offspring from enslavement. They refused to mate and did not give birth to offspring in the fishing grounds.

Now, leatherback turtles are finally willing to give birth to offspring in their fisheries, what does this mean? It shows that they see this as an important base of survival, which is a good thing.

Leatherback turtle populations are declining by the day, and in the two decades between the late twentieth century and the early twenty-first century, their populations have plummeted by about 95% due to changes in ocean temperatures caused by El Niño, illegal fishing by fishermen, marine pollution, and local tourism development.

Later, although various countries have put leatherback turtles into the ranks of protected animals, they have also protected their habitat. But a new killer appeared, people littered plastic bags in the ocean, and leatherback turtles had poor eyesight, thinking that this was a jellyfish that would eat it, but they did not digest it and finally died of intestinal infarction.

Qin Shiou said to Mao Weilong, ate breakfast and returned by helicopter.

After returning to the fishing farm, Winnie deliberately did not go to work and waited for him, and said happily when she saw him come back: "It was Shirley that they found out, and they went to the farm to pick up eggs as usual in the morning." It was found that leatherback turtles came ashore to lay eggs. ”

The main egg-laying season is between May and June, when females crawl from the ocean to the beach to burrow and lay eggs. Spawning usually takes place at night and is very cautious in case of external interference. They will immediately return to the ocean.

The reason why leatherback turtles in the fishing grounds lay their eggs in the morning may be that they have lived in the fishing grounds for a while and feel safer. I climbed onto the beach in the morning.

Leatherback turtles lay eggs in groups, when a female turtle takes the lead. Other females will also climb onto the beach in the next few days to lay their eggs.

As early as the 60s of the 20th century, 10,000 leatherback turtles roosted and laid eggs in the Lantaa area on the east coast of Peninsular Malaysia. The time is a week.

Qin Shiou has seen the relevant information, it was really a grand occasion at that time, the beach turned blue-black during that time, and it was full of female turtles that came ashore to lay eggs.

Unfortunately, this spectacle has become a legend and it is now the leatherback turtle spawning season, but according to the Malaysian Fisheries Department, only three leatherback turtles have arrived in the Ta Abang area so far this year, and none of them have laid eggs.

Regardless of the risk factors, the real prime time for spawning is midday, because no matter what the egg, it needs the right temperature to hatch.

The beach temperature at noon is just right, not very high but full of heat, and the eggs will remain most vigorous after they are laid in the sand.

On average, a leatherback turtle can lay about 100 eggs during the egg-laying season, but at least one-tenth of them cannot hatch because the temperature is not suitable during the egg-laying season, and the eggs are frozen to death.

After Qin Shiou came back, he went to the beach at the mouth of the sea, it was noon, the sun was shining, and the sand temperature was a little hot, but it was a suitable temperature for the turtle to lay eggs.

One by one, several female leatherback turtles climbed onto the beach, ranging in size from one meter to two and a half meters long.

In addition to the female turtle, there is also a male turtle that also goes to the beach, and that is Nicholas Turtle Four.

The fourth master patrolled the beach with his hip-hop ghost steps, although he trembled between walks, but it was indeed suitable for being a sentry, because its head could constantly rotate, and any wind and grass could not avoid its eyes.

There is no doubt that these female turtles come ashore to lay their eggs, and they are quite careful about the location of their eggs, both to facilitate the hatching of the eggs and to avoid being detected and destroyed by predators.

Seven or eight female turtles climbed up one after another, and then they divided into several groups to find suitable places to lay their eggs on the beach.

Qin Shiou saw that they hadn't dug egg holes for a long time, so he understood the reason, and took Winnie to find some shrubs in the grass behind, and uprooted them and planted them on the beach at will.

Sure enough, when they found the bushes, the female turtles happily crawled over. They burrow in the sand next to the bushes with their paddle-like forelimbs, digging a large hollow about the size of their bodies, and then lie down in the sand with their whole body.

After hiding in the pit, the female turtle's eyes stared nervously around, and her hind limbs dug down alternately like a shovel, digging a vertical pit under the genital hole behind the buttocks.

At this time, the female turtles are about to lay eggs.

One of the characteristics of female turtles when laying eggs is that they are extra cautious before laying eggs, and they return to the sea immediately after the slightest disturbance. But once the eggs are laid, no matter how strong the stimulus is, they don't care about it.

The real snapping turtle master doesn't know when it crawled over, and it has also lived in this place, so it is very familiar with Yiqiē.

Lying on the beach, the master first sighed that the sun and the moon were like a shuttle turtle, and then he saw the female turtle laying eggs, so he climbed over curiously to look.

The female turtles stared nervously at the master, but they were still laying eggs, while Nicholas Turtle Four rushed over with a ghost step and crashed into the master!

As if the Zhiyuan ship hit the little devil's Yoshino ship, the fourth master did not hesitate and moved forward bravely! (To be continued......)