Golden Fishing Village

Listening to Chen Xin's words, Yan Yinghao suddenly said: "Old Chen, you said that Eve was dying before, could it be related to laying eggs?"

Without waiting for Chen Xin to answer, he said to himself: "This is very likely. Eve's initial symptoms such as decreased energy, decreased appetite, and irritability were probably her pregnancy reactions."

"We thought it had gastrointestinal problems at the time, so we stopped its diet. As a result, it was unable to obtain enough energy in time to supply the turtle eggs, and could only use its own energy to transfer supplies."

"In this way, it has not been able to replenish energy. Instead, it has continued to lose energy, causing its health condition to further deteriorate. In the end, it needs a lot of energy after entering the spawning period recently. We still cannot supply it, so it can only Enter suspended animation to protect the body until you return to the protected area and resume your normal diet..."

Chen Xin took a breath and said, "So that's it?"

Li Ji shook his head and said: "Pull it down quickly. I think this turtle is having dystocia. The previous symptoms were all caused by dystocia."

Yan Yinghao said: "This statement is untenable, teacher. If Eve had a difficult delivery, how could she suddenly become normal after she came to the reserve two days ago?"

Li Ji said: "If it lacks energy, then it will not have the strength to lay eggs at all, let alone normal turtle eggs."

Yan Yinghao sighed sadly: "This is what I'm afraid of. Eve laid five clutches of eggs last year, but none of them hatched successfully..."

"Wait a minute, Eve laid five clutches of eggs last year?" Li Ji showed a surprised expression, "Don't the spotted turtles lay two clutches of eggs a year?"

Yan Yinghao said: "Normally this is the case, but Eve moved to our place from the zoo last year. When she was an animal, her activity space was smaller. After she came to our place, she had a dedicated space and beach shrubs. After waiting for a good environment, the activity increased and the food intake increased, so we guessed that the eggs that had been accumulated before were not discharged, and the amount of ovulation increased after coming to our place. "

Ao Muyang said: "Then the environment changed again this time, and you ovulated again?"

Yan Yinghao waved his hand and said: "Of course not. It is very unreasonable for it to ovulate suddenly this time. We didn't expect it to lay eggs in this season, so we didn't think about it when we found it had physical problems before. We should have thought of it earlier." of."

Having said this, he stamped his feet in annoyance.

Ao Muyang said: "Okay, don't regret it now. Let's find a way to put these turtle eggs in the incubation box first."

Yan Yinghao smiled bitterly and said: "It may be in vain. If my guess is correct, then these eggs will definitely not be able to hatch, because the turtle eggs do not have enough energy supply during their development, and they are born with stunted development."

Ao Muyang waved his hand and said, "Don't worry about this. You must have guessed wrong. It is just depressed. The living environment over there is still not good. These turtle eggs will definitely hatch."

He said this to comfort himself. He felt that what Yan Yinghao said was really right. This unlucky turtle almost starved to death. Otherwise, why would so many experts be unable to detect symptoms after examining it?

Chen Xin, who has been paying attention to Eve's egg laying, said: "Stop arguing, Eve is so good at laying eggs this time, she has already laid six!"

Spotted soft-shelled turtles can lay two or three eggs at a time, or at most five. It is indeed very rare to produce six soft-shelled turtle eggs.

Li Ji insisted: "Her previous symptoms were caused by dystocia. This time, too many turtle eggs were formed in Eve's body."

The number was indeed quite large. Eve held it in for a while, and finally she released two more eggs.

In other words, it produced a total of eight turtle eggs this time!

Li Ji asked students to bring the incubation box. They had to grab the turtle eggs.

The incubation box in the reserve is very modern. There is a temperature controller on the top of the box. The box is transparent for easy observation. There are two shelves inside, one with sand and one with water. In addition to maintaining In addition to a constant temperature, a humidity of 25% must be maintained.

After laying her eggs, Eve lay down on the beach to rest. She rested from morning to afternoon. After regaining her strength, she got up and walked away, paying no attention to the turtle eggs behind her...

This is the nature of all turtles, and the same is true for turtles laying eggs. They lay their eggs in sand pits and bury them, and then go into the sea to migrate by themselves.

But for conservationists, the nature of female turtles is a help. If female turtles protect their babies like mammals, conservation work will be difficult to carry out.

Chen Xin picked up the turtle eggs one by one and regarded them as treasures with both hands.

Ao Muyang followed and got up close to see the turtle eggs. The result was nothing special. However, the eggs didn't look good up close. The shells were a little thin and had black lines on them.

After Eve laid her eggs, Chen Xin and Yan Yinghao couldn't leave anymore. Li Ji didn't want to let Eve go. He wanted to take Adam with him to increase the weight of the reserve.

This time Ao Muyang didn't care, because even if the turtles were brought to the protected area, tourists would not be able to visit them. In order to protect the turtles, the state does not allow non-professionals to come into contact with them.

However, Eve successfully laid eggs and produced an extraordinary eight eggs. This incident became news. In fact, Eve's resurrection from the dead was news.

It was not Ao Muyang who broke the news, but Li Ji. Li Ji attributed the turtle's successful recovery to health to the protected area. He specifically contacted the media to promote the protected area.

In addition, his purpose of promoting the reserve was not for himself, but to make the reserve more well-known, so that it could obtain more special funds in the future.

Knowing that one of the only two giant softshell turtles in the country had turned from dying to healthy and successfully laid multiple turtle eggs was of great news value to the media. Starting from mid-May, media from many provinces and cities interviewed and reported on this.

Because the reserve is in Longtou Village, when introducing the current situation of the giant softshell turtle and the reserve, Longtou Village was also promoted, making Longtou Village more famous.

The weather was warm and the number of tourists increased. With the media's publicity, more tourists came to the village.

This was not a big deal. One morning in the middle of the month, Lv Zhichao, who had just been promoted to a senior official in the town last year, suddenly called Ao Muyang and said that CCTV was coming to the reserve to record a program.

Lao Ao was stunned when he received the news. He asked, "Secretary Lu, is the news reliable? Are reporters from CCTV coming?"

Lu Zhichao said, "Hurry up and prepare for the reception. The working group has arrived at the town committee. We will arrange for them to rest for a while, and then go to your village."

Ao Muyang said, "That's no problem. What should we prepare?"

Lu Zhichao said, "You should have experience in this area. Prepare a lunch. Forget the welcome ceremony and gifts. It's not popular now. By the way, don't make the dinner too grand..."

"Just have a simple meal with everyone. Don't stew the giant turtle." A crisp voice came into Ao Muyang's ears through the phone.