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Chapter 102 The Barnacle on the Back of the Tortoiseshell

The big hawksbill turtle was overturned by Lin Bei on the beach.

A piece of dark gray plastron was exposed.

The two fins kept struggling, trying to get up.

It's a pity that because there are too many barnacles on the back, the more I struggle, the deeper I sink in the fine sand.

"The tortoiseshell is also called the thirteen-scaled turtle, the turtle, the Wenjia, the tortoise, the turtle, and the eagle-billed sea turtle."

"Their main living areas are shallow lagoons and coral reefs. Many caves and deep valleys in the coral reefs provide places for them to rest. Coral reefs also live in the main food of hawksbill turtles, sponges."

"A hawksbill is a turtle that can digest glass."

"The hawksbill's diet also includes invertebrates such as jellyfish, sea anemones, shrimp crabs and shellfish, as well as fish and seaweed."

"Distributed mainly in wide ocean areas, mainly found in the tropics of the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans."

Lin Bei looked at the drone camera and explained.

Lin Bei's science popularization stopped, and the audience in the live broadcast room became interested.

"Hahaha, this is the first time I've seen such a big sea turtle."

"This turtle is much bigger than the previous ones."

"I just heard from the anchor, what's the name of this turtle?"

"It seems that the anchor calls it a tortoiseshell?"

"Tortoise shell? Isn't it a very precious gemstone?"

"Is there any brother who understands in the live broadcast room, please give us a popular science."

"Haha, look at its big tortoise shell, it can't even get up after being overturned by Station Master Lin."

"Why are there so many corals on the back of this hawksbill turtle? How many years does it take to become like this in the sea?"

"Brother upstairs, that's not coral, that's barnacles!!"

"What the hell, what is a barnacle?"

"This turtle should be very old, right?"

"It looks quite big, but I didn't expect to be turned over by Station Master Lin all of a sudden, haha."

The audience in the live broadcast room laughed.

Looking at the big hawksbill tortoiseshell that was still struggling with its belly facing the sky, Lin Bei washed it with clean sea water.

Then turned it over by hand.

"This big hawksbill turtle should not be injured. We just helped it clean up the oil on its surface."

"However, there are many barnacles on its shell, why don't we help it dig it out."

Lin Bei took out a dagger from his backpack, held the crawling tortoiseshell with his body, and began to pick up the barnacles.

"Barnacles, commonly known as, touch, horse teeth."

"It is an arthropod with a calcareous shell attached to rocks by the sea."

"In tropical sea areas, this type of organisms can reproduce and attach all year round."

"Barnacles will attach to coastal piers, the bottom of ships, submarine cables, or the bodies of some marine animals."

"For example, whales and sea turtles are ideal hosts for their possession."

"When freshly attached to barnacles, marine animals such as turtles and whales do not look any different."

"But over time, the barnacles attached to the surface multiply and increase the burden on marine animals."

"For example, there are many barnacles attached to the back of this tortoiseshell."

"These barnacles undoubtedly added a burden to this hawksbill turtle."

And barnacles are one of the most important marine fouling organisms. "

"The shell of the turtle is relatively hard, like a rock, and the barnacles especially like to live on the turtle."

"Once a turtle encounters a barnacle during swimming, the barnacle will hang on to you, and you won't be able to shake it off, and even embedding its own shell shamefully into the animal's skin."

Barnacles are undoubtedly fatal to sea turtles. You must know that barnacles have a particularly strong reproductive ability. Once they find a place to live, they will start to reproduce in large numbers, and the number will increase. The barnacles that live on the shells of sea turtles Once the number increases, the load on the turtle itself will increase, and the moving speed of the turtle in the sea will decrease. "

"It seriously affects their predation behavior. If they encounter natural enemies of sea turtles, they may not even have a chance to escape."

"So if sea turtles encounter barnacles, they are not capable of dealing with barnacles themselves. If we can come across our human rescue, it would be good to help them get rid of the barnacles."

"But not all sea turtles are so lucky to be rescued. Most of the sea turtles encounter barnacles and eventually die because of the barnacles."

Lin Bei picked the barnacles on the tortoiseshell's back with a dagger, and explained to the camera of the drone.

"I didn't expect this barnacle to be so terrifying?"

"Then isn't this thing a parasite? My scalp is numb just looking at it."

"Hey, I just wanted to say whether this thing can be eaten, but I didn't expect it to be so scary."

"Good guy, it's so stress-free to watch Station Master Lin picking up this barnacle."

"Can this barnacle be eaten? I heard that there is a kind of gooseneck barnacle that is quite expensive."

"There should be no meat in this thing?"

"Good guy, do you want to eat these shells too? Isn't it delicious to eat oysters!?"

"Stationmaster Lin is right. After being parasitized by this kind of barnacle, it really means death for sea turtles and whales."

"It's so cool to pick barnacles, it makes me want to pick barnacles."

"Hey, if you want to talk about picking barnacles, it's still the stationmaster Lin's specialty. It's only been a few minutes, and a big piece has been deducted."

The audience in the live broadcast room spoke one after another.

"Actually, this tortoise shell should be over a hundred years old."

"It is estimated that it is about the same age as the giant turtle in our rescue station."

"Look, this is the most valuable place for hawksbill."

Lin Bei tapped the tortoise shell with his hand and smiled.

"After the shell of this tortoiseshell is polished, it will have a jewel-like luster."

"As for how to distinguish the quality of tortoiseshell, generally we use the color, the darker the better, the dark red is the top grade, the bright red is the best, and the light red is the second.

The second is that the longer the age of the tortoiseshell, the thicker the shell.

The hawksbill turtle, also known as the millennium turtle, is the most precious animal in the southern waters. There are 13 scales (horny plates) on the back of the hawksbill turtle. The surface is smooth, with brown and light yellow bloodshot patterns. say. "

"In the past, wealthy families along the coast would make their turtle shells into buttons, glasses frames, bracelets, rings, combs, fan handles, piano boards, etc."

"But don't think about it now, this kind of hawksbill turtle is already a first-class protected animal in our country, and their population is extremely rare."

After Lin Bei finished buttoning the barnacles on the tortoise shell, he stood up and said.

"Hey, is this sea turtle a national first-class protected animal?"

"Tortoiseshell, tortoiseshell, I thought it was a gem before."

"I didn't expect it to be the shell of this kind of sea turtle."

"Hortoiseshell, coral, ivory, amber, all belong to organic gems."

"After listening to the introduction of the station master Lin Bei, this thing looks like a punishment."

"It turns out that this is a tortoise shell. I have learned a lot. I always thought that a tortoise shell was a kind of gem, but I didn't expect it to be a kind of sea turtle."

"This brown turtle shell can be polished into something like a gem? Why don't I believe it."

"It turns out that this is the hawksbill turtle, a first-class national protected animal."

"Such a big tortoise shell should be rare, right?"

"Look at the back, it should be one meter wide."

The audience in the live broadcast room talked one after another.

(End of this chapter)