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576. Baby turtle (5)

The newly hatched sea turtle is called a child turtle, a very young turtle.

However, compared with the freshwater turtles on land, the green sea turtles are quite large as soon as they are born. Their straight armor is between four or five centimeters long. After the turtle's head is protruded, it is about the size of a child's palm.

Newly born green turtles are very dangerous. They are very brave at this time and do not have the same unmoving temperament as their parents. If there is any movement at this time, they can scare them to death...

In this way, Ao Muyang and Li Ji teachers and students stood on the shore high ground and observed the little turtle's nest out through a telescope.

The little turtles crawled out one by one, then staggered towards the beach, which looked quite spectacular.

Their dorsal armor is mainly black, and the edges and fins of the abdomen are white, black and white, and they are stupid.

Seeing them moving forward firmly towards the sea, Ao Muyang exclaimed: "Wow, this little turtle is very powerful. It can climb so far as it is born."

"Who told you that they were just born?" Li Ji smiled.

Ao Muyang pointed to the beach nest and said, "Didn't they just crawled out?"

Li Ji smiled and shook his head: "They just crawled out, but they have been hatched for several days, and at least three or four days. During those three or four days, they stayed around the egg shells and did not leave their nests until today."

"This is called vulgar development." A doctoral student said with a smile.

Li Ji said: "Oh, the temperature here is indeed not perfect for the living environment of the green turtle."

"Why do you say that?" Ao Muyang asked.

Li Ji pointed to the little turtle that was about to crawl out of another nest and said, "In order to avoid natural enemies, the turtle usually crawls out of the nest and crawls to the sea when the sand temperature is low in summer nights."

"They hide in the sand and don't know what the light is outside. They judge whether it is day or night, and it is through the temperature of the sand layer."

Ao Muyang understood that the red ocean in early autumn was also a little cold during the day, and the temperature was similar to that in tropical nights. The little turtles thought it was night, so they crawled out.

There is a constant temperature glass house by the sea. The little turtles were stunned after discovering that this was not the night. They followed the sound of waves and crawled towards the beach, and finally climbed into the glass house one after another.

Ao Muyang smiled and said, "Do they feel the warmth of the glass delivery room?"

Li Ji said: "No, I applied the inducible substances to it. The turtles were sensitive to the appearance. They were attracted by the inducible substances."

Normally, when the little turtle reaches the beach, it will use its waves to rush into the waves along the sound of the waves, and then swim out to the outside sea.

At this time, the little turtles are very miserable. In order to reduce the chance of being encountered by natural enemies, they have to swim continuously as soon as they are born. The first swim may last for a day and a night!

In short, their desire to survive is quite strong!

There were clusters of seaweed in the glass room, which were sargasso, brought by Li Ji.

According to nature, the little turtles should keep wandering after entering the glass room. The result is not the case. They drilled into the Sargasso mass and then stayed quietly without moving.

Seeing this scene from the telescope, Li Ji couldn't help but pat his thigh: "The turtle's continuous swimming is not only to stay away from the coast, but also to find a shelter. There is no doubt that the Sargasso is the shelter they have been looking for!"

A student also slapped his thighs excitedly: "Teacher, you may uncover the lost years of the turtle."

"Why are you patting my thigh?" A female doctor rolled her eyes.

Ao Muyang asked: "What is the problem of the lost years of the turtle?"

"The lost years are the turtles from returning to the ocean to growing up to become 20-30-centimeter young turtles. No one has seen them near the sea or on the beach. With the development of technology now, they have not really found their regular living places. Therefore, in reptiles, we use the 'lost years' to describe the invisible juvenile life history of green sea turtles."

Li Ji looked very excited, so Ao Muyang had to follow him.

He felt that the guess was not necessarily true, because he sprinkled water mixed with gold drops in the Sargasso, and it was possible that the little turtle was attracted by this thing and left behind.

Because the temperature is low at night, the turtles must stay in the glass room for a while, and wait until their bodies are slightly stronger before letting them enter the ocean.

Li Ji went to the nest left by the turtles to check the situation. After he dug out the sand, there were turtle shells underneath. Some of the turtle shells were crushed and the turtle crawled out; some of the turtle shells were just broken a little, and there were dead turtle inside; some of the turtle shells had only cracks, and it was obvious that the turtle inside was too weak and could not knock on the turtle shells to crawl out.

Faced with this result, Li Ji showed a happy expression on his face.

"It is indeed effective to use a constant temperature rod to help the turtle eggs hatch." He was very optimistic when he said this.

"Isn't there anyone else dead?" Ao Muyang asked.

Li Ji said: "If you know that the probability of turtle eggs hatching is only 60%, then you know why I am so happy."

After hearing this, Ao Muyang understood that indeed, the hatching rate of this nest of turtle eggs was 80%.

Three or four days after that, the turtle eggs hatched one after another, and the turtles crawled out of their nests and entered the glass house, hiding in the Sargasso mass, almost invisible.

This is their shelter and their food.

Li Ji and his students have been following up on this project. Ao Muyang continued to lead the team to go out to sea, and seafood was continuously sent to the fishing village.

Not far from the Mid-Autumn Festival, seafood sales have entered a climax, and the Yexian crabs and Nanhu crabs in Ambergris are about to be produced.

Compared with Chengyang Lake hairy crabs, these crabs are naturally much less famous.

But now hairy crabs are mostly bathing crabs, and almost all the ones that flow into the market are not authentic Chengyang Lake hairy crabs, but are made by foreign vendors who have been breeded and sent to Chengyang Lake and soaked in the water.

In this case, the freshwater crabs raised in Ambergris naturally taste better. At least they are wild crabs, and it takes a year to grow the seedlings.

In the first phase, 200,000 crab seedlings were poured into Ambergris Lake, and the Land Hu also re-issued them many times. This year, Ambergris Lake has many crabs.

Longtou Village must handle the large crab troops around the Mid-Autumn Festival. It cannot keep too many crabs in the lake for winter. Otherwise, they lack food in winter and will eat up all the water, grass roots and vegetation seeds in the lake.

In this way, how to sell crabs has become another problem, which is a happy trouble for Longtou Village.

When Ao Daguo was treating guests to dinner, someone asked Ao Muyang at the table: "Boss Lu doesn't want much of these crabs. How can we sell them all?"

"Sell it at a discount, but it can't be sold at a cheaper price?" Ao Mudong said while drinking.

Everyone is reluctant: "We have a fuss with Wangjia Village for this batch of crabs, and then you tell me to sell it at a discount? Why?"

Ao Muyang patted the table and said, "I have a clear idea, let me leave this."
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