Sea turtles are not as big as freshwater turtles. Almost all of them are large enough. The smallest one is tortoise turtle, which can grow to 80 cm long and weigh fifty or sixty kilograms.

Leatherback turtles are giants among sea turtles. They are the largest and can grow to three or four meters long. The Fourth Master Nicholas is less than three or four meters long, and that is two and a half meters long. Facing masters, it has an absolute advantage from the perspective of their size.

But if you really want to fight, the Fourth Master of Turtle will definitely not work. The real snapping turtle is indeed not as good as the leatherback turtle, but they are all experts in combat, especially those who can chase bears and run around, so they cannot be messed with.

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

But this time it doesn't work. The female turtles in its clan are laying eggs and continuing their bloodlines. It does not allow anything to destroy this, so it takes the initiative to attack the turtle four, hoping to divert its attraction.

The turtle rushed four times very quickly, but as the saying goes, the essence is concentrated. Facing the big leatherback turtle flying upwards, the master calmly glanced at it, and his strong body moved around. He quickly turned around for a while, then turned around and ran away.

In this way, Gui Si passed by in an instant. The master slowly turned around, 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 in a state of turtle loneliness:

This fishing ground has been in full swing for more than ten days, and has bitten all the tigers, leopards, bears, wolves, and defeated all the tortoises, birds, deer and rats. The fishing ground has no resistance and can do anything, so it can only live in seclusion in the haystacks and be friends with the wind. Alas, I have been seeking a rival in my life but cannot be obtained. I am sincere and lonely and embarrassed.

The master is not interested in fighting with the leatherback turtle, so he will win? There is a ball meaning, it just wants to tease the turtle four, but Qin Shiou didn't give it this opportunity, dragged his tail and pulled it back, leaving no face.

If possible, it would be too embarrassing for the master to retract his head into the turtle shell. He was dragged away by someone's tail.

Unfortunately, the real snapping turtle is not a sea turtle. It cannot be retracted from its head and limbs, so it can only stretch out and be embarrassed helplessly.

Without danger, the female turtles began to lay eggs with confidence. Their egg laying speed was slow at first, and they were born one by one at a constant speed. But as the rhythm was found, the speed was faster. They had to lay eggs once in four or five seconds, four or five eggs at a time...

Mucus is also discharged from the turtle eggs, which bond the sand and the turtle eggs together. They can play a protective role.

Behind, female turtles climbed onto the beach one after another. Qin Shiou took photos while counting, starting from noon to three o'clock in the afternoon. A total of thirty-five female turtles crawled up!

This is a very considerable number.

Since the sun sets west, no female turtles lay eggs anymore, and some climbs ashore. But they are just looking for places to lay eggs.

Qin Shiou didn't understand this at first, but after he posted the photo of the leatherback turtle laying eggs on Weibo, a blogger who knew the relevant knowledge left him a message and explained the truth:

The gender decision methods of turtles include genotype and gender decision (GSD) and temperature-dependent gender decision (TSD). Leatherback turtles belong to the latter. The gender of the hatched turtles is related to the sand temperature of the hatch site. The higher the ambient temperature, the higher the proportion of female turtles hatched, which is another wonder of nature.

For leatherback turtles that are getting smaller and smaller now, naturally, the more female turtles, the better, because female turtles represent the ability to continuate race.

In the next few days, the leatherback turtles set the spawning time, from 11:00 noon to 3:00 pm, which will not exceed this time period.

The more you go out, the fewer leatherback turtles laying eggs, but the whole thing is more than one hundred scattered!

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

Interestingly, no matter which time a female turtle goes ashore, the fourth turtle will climb up to the beach to be a bodyguard. Although it always dances non-mainstream street dance, Qin Shiou still admires it as a man.

Qin Shiou's Weibo often popularizes some marine environmental protection knowledge. He posted photos of leatherback turtles laying eggs, telling the difficulty of reproduction of this race. I hope everyone can protect them after seeing them.

The number of leatherback turtles has dropped sharply, and it is also an important reason for being hunted. In the eyes of super fishing owners 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 and is said to be more delicious than beef and nutritious. It has always been regarded as a top-notch dish in Japan and Indonesia. Its deck can be boiled into bone gelatin, which is a high-end tonic that is no less than donkey-hide gelatin. It can nourish yin and yang, and is beneficial for treating insomnia, cirrhosis, gastric bleeding, and lung diseases.

In addition, the turtle palm can strengthen the stomach, nourish the kidneys, remove fire and improve eyesight, and turtle oil and turtle blood can treat asthma and bronchitis. Turtle eggs are more nutritious than eggs and duck eggs. Turtle bile has the highest value and can fight cancer!

Therefore, before countries jointly included leatherback turtles as animal protection, there was a craze for turtle hunting around the world.

Speaking of which, leatherback turtles are also quite unlucky. They encountered a hunting boom in the 1990s. In the 21st century, the ocean pollution began to be severe, and plastic film garbage bags were everywhere, which caused even greater harm to them.

Qin Shiou is not only the only one who wants to protect leatherback turtles. There is an organization affiliated to the International Wildlife Conservation Association in North America called the Leatherback turtle Protection Organization, which has been committed to protecting this endangered species.

The English name of this organization is dermohelysoadayaaproionsoiety, abbreviated as dps. It has a relatively large impact in North America and has more members than leatherback turtles.

Dai Guangshang is a member of this organization. He joined the organization when he was studying at the University of Toronto two years ago. The reason is that there are many cute girls in it. At that time, he was an introverted and shy single man, and he wanted to get a big horse abroad, so he joined the organization in various ways.

Later, it turned out that the introverted and shy single **she is only worthy of playing with his left and right hands, and he is also apart from joining any organization. He worked very hard on DPS, but unfortunately he still did not win the girl's heart.

But the east side is not bright, and although he did not hook up with the girl with DPS, he trained his social skills and met many friends.

Moreover, as he learned more about leatherback turtles, the more he loved this huge and docile animal. Gradually, he forgot his original intention of joining DPS, and seemed to be trying to maintain this species.

Later, when he returned to China, his contact with the association gradually decreased. After returning to China, he was busy with work and blind dates. Occasionally, he recalled the past and felt that the introvert Xiao Dai, who was enthusiastic about charity, seemed very strange.

Sometimes when he wakes up at midnight, he will still think of the silly otaku and the enthusiastic boy who is busy all day long for the world and leatherback turtles. But is that really the person who is now open to the car room and keeps money? (To be continued...)
Chapter completed!