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Chapter 216 215. Leatherback Turtle

The leatherback turtle swallows the box jellyfish very quickly. After eating the main part, the leatherback turtle swings its limbs happily and swims away.

Su Yun's face turned dark, and he swam his body to catch up, "Don't leave, let me touch him."

The leatherback turtle looked back at Su Yun, didn't stop, and continued to paddle slowly towards the shore.

Su Yun accelerated to chase forward, then put his hand on the back of the leatherback turtle, and said, "The box jellyfish is indeed powerful, but all things are born and restrained. It must have natural enemies, such as the one in front of us."

"This is not a sea turtle. Sea turtles are cold-blooded animals. This is just a leatherback turtle, a reptile, and the largest turtle-like animal in the world."

"The main food of leatherback turtles is cephalopods. Of course, small fish and seaweed are also food for each other, which can be regarded as omnivorous."

Grabbing a small fish casually, he stretched out his hand and brought it to the other party's mouth courteously. The Leatherback Turtle glanced at the small fish in Su Yun's hand, and opened its mouth to swallow it.

[Xiaoyu: I'm fucking swimming, catch me and feed me to others?Are you still human? 】

[Look at the solicitous appearance of the anchor, does it look like a traitor? 】

[Don't tell me, it really looks like it, hahahaha. 】

Su Yun didn't care what his friend B said. Seeing the friend's increased affinity, Su Yun felt happy.

He stretched out his hand to grab a small fish again, no matter how the other party struggled, he was still sent to the leatherback turtle's mouth by Su Yun. It seemed that he knew that Su Yun was not a good thing, and the fish that had been wandering around him all scattered away. .

Su Yun looked left and right, this group of fish didn't show selfless dedication at all, bah.

The audience in the live broadcast room who watched this scene burst into laughter, scaring away the other fish abruptly.

The area of ​​the inland sea is very large, but the leatherback turtle has no intention of staying, so it goes straight to the shore to swim.

Su Yun tugged on the opponent's tail, acting as a ride.

"Leatherbacks are temperature-changing reptiles. They are very docile and will not attack humans."

Su Yun grabbed the opponent's tail and lay on the leatherback turtle's back. "You can easily identify the opponent's identity by looking at the seven lines of vertical ribs on its back."

"The leatherback turtle in front of us is about one meter long. The largest leatherback turtle known so far is about 2.9 meters long, but it was dead when it was found. The reason for death was that it couldn't digest it after eating a white plastic bag. .”

"Why do they swallow white plastic bags? Because leatherback turtles have poor eyesight. Its main food is jellyfish. Most jellyfish are white in color, which is very similar to white plastic bags."

"Especially the white garbage bags are more like when they drift with the sea water in the water. As mentioned before, in addition to the box jellyfish, other jellyfish also move with the flow of the sea water."

"So, after the sea turtle eats the plastic bag by mistake, it circulates back and forth in the body and cannot digest it, and it will slowly die."

Feeling the power of the sliding water from the opponent's limbs, Su Yun continued, "The spawning time of leatherback turtles is not stable, and it is possible to lay eggs throughout the year. The spawning grounds are basically located between 30 degrees north latitude and 20 degrees south latitude."

"But May and June are the main spawning time."

Arriving at the shore, Su Yun stepped on the opponent's turtle shell and stepped ashore first. The leatherback turtle was caught off guard by Su Yun's actions and was stepped directly into the seabed.

Shaking his head, Su Yun picked up the leatherback turtle that had resurfaced and placed it on the island. He glanced at the surrounding coastline and saw that the leatherback turtle moved its huge body and slowly swam into the sea.

"The leatherback turtle doesn't stay in one place for long because its daily food intake has to be 74 percent of its body weight, so it's always looking for food."

"So in order to find food, it will swim almost every corner of the ocean, the deepest can swim to about 1200 meters, but the other party prefers to swim at a depth of about 200 meters on the sea surface."

Watching the leatherback turtle get off the island and onto the beach, Su Yun unloaded the oxygen bottle and sat cross-legged on the turtle's back. Su Yun's weight was only insignificant for the leatherback turtle.

The parrot flew from a distance, stood on Su Yun's shoulder, tilted its head to look at the huge crawling tortoise, and opened its mouth to disgust Su Yun, "Your relative?"

Su Yun slapped the parrot on the ground, "Go away."

After getting off the back of the turtle, Su Yun continued, "The current number of leatherback turtles is between 2000 and 5700. The number is not very accurate. There is nothing we can do about it, but the number is still declining sharply. Conservation organizations have begun to work hard on turtle eggs." , prohibiting seabirds from harming newly emerged baby leatherback turtles.”

"But this method is just drinking poison to quench thirst. The most fundamental reason should be to protect the environment. Since the emergence of plastic bags, the number of leatherback turtles has dropped sharply by 40% every year. There are few natural enemies, and they all eat plastic bags to block them." Digestive system starved to death."

"For this kind of environmental protection issue, most countries will shift the responsibility to our country, but during the dissection process of leatherback turtles, most of the words printed on the garbage plastic bags are in English."

"As a pelagic animal, you can see the opponent's ability from the opponent's forelimbs." Su Yun stopped the leatherback turtle, and then opened the opponent's mouth.

The leatherback turtle didn't struggle because of its affinity. It stopped and opened its mouth obediently, and then saw densely packed sharp spines inside.

"Let's talk about the white plastic bag again."

"See if there are any thorns in the opponent's mouth. Leatherback turtles have no teeth, but the reason why the jellyfish bitten by the leatherback turtle cannot break free is the opponent's own flesh spines."

"The smooth jellyfish can't escape the thorns in the opponent's mouth at all. However, this is a sharp weapon, but it is also a disadvantage."

"Leatherback turtles who eat plastic bags by mistake will also be unable to spit out the meat thorns in their mouths. After swallowing them, they block their intestines and then cannot pull them out, so they can only face death."

The parrot looked at the thorns in the leatherback turtle's mouth and marveled.

Su Yun let go of the opponent, and the leatherback turtle slowly crawled into the sea again, "So, the road to protecting animals is destined to be difficult. There are only a handful of volunteers, and countless people who destroy the environment. What do you do? Inadvertently throwing away straws and plastic bags is likely to cause harm to some animals."

Shaking his head, Su Yun hugged the opponent's body and directly sent the leatherback turtle into the sea water. The leatherback turtle looked back at Su Yun, waved its limbs, and disappeared in front of Su Yun at a speed that was inconsistent with that on land. .

Taking off his diving suit, Su Yun walked towards the motorboat, "Eat first, and then continue to look for the animals we are looking for. Concrete snails, blue-ringed octopus and stonefish can all be found in the Great Barrier Reef. After finding these three animals, we will Set off directly to land, and all the animals that follow will be on land."

"As for the crocodile, we can find it by searching along the mouth of the river."

After that, I got on the motorboat and started preparing to cook. The motorboat looked simple, but it had many functions. It even had an oven, and there was also a lot of oil, salt, sauce and vinegar in the cabinet in the corner.

After praising the staff, Su Yun began to prepare the meal.

(End of this chapter)