According to Wenzhou news: Spring plumbing, a turtle-like animal on the beach lengthy line, go fishing farmers see the rejoicing. Approached Xiqiao originally rare animals - large sea turtle Ou River, and the body is injured, that uh expansion, soon recovered, the reintroduction of the river, so the pass to his brother's wife. Such cases, in recent years have occurred in the bowl Riverbanks. Ou River to protect a national treasure, has become the local people's initiative.
So, in the end what Oujiang large sea turtle mystery of how the situation is now talking about a large sea turtle Ou River, who lives in Yongjia water port of a white-bearded old man familiar, pours out:?? Ou River, called "whip Rong River" from junction of Qingyuan County of Zhejiang and Fujian Baishanzu originator until Citou Yueqing Bay into the sea, flows 386 kilometers long, Zhejiang second river is not only beautiful scene, flirtatious, such as Sin and outstanding, rich. According to the survey, only there are 111 kinds of fish, especially the habitat of the rare freshwater species - sea turtle, with its giant panda, golden monkey, etc., as the case of a "national treasure."
Sea turtle, the Department phylum Reptilia Testudines Trionychidae. Han Xu Shen "Dictionary" says: "Beetle but the largest sea turtle, the word from the Yuan, Yuan were big also." "Journey," a book had portrayed, then monk Buddhist sutras, passing Tongtianhe, where the river is eight hundred barrier, timing and daring, a large sea turtle floating for a boat, laden with large mentoring four and a white horse across the river. Said the old man, sea turtle carapace slightly concave pattern, the monk, who is due footprint. According to legend, the emperor and bloody Chen Youliang Poyang Lake, Zhu defeat being chased, caught in an impasse when Jiang Yu also fortunate enough to escape a large sea turtle. After the emperor Zhu, namely called "General", perhaps sea turtle ugly head often scattered warts, it was dubbed the Wenzhou "leprosy head sea turtle", "Dream of Red Mansions" Bao Er Ye also said "Ming child fell into the pool, called a skin disease to eat turtle head "of the language. And there are "turtle spirit" of the commonly known.
It describes the elderly, very docile sea turtle, fish, shrimp, snails, clams for food. Sea turtle body oval, vertical flat, head width, front annular, beak short, thick neck, head and retractable shell carapace is dark green. Hi sea turtle habitat water clarification, the water slowly deepwater mountain rivers pit or reservoir. Little activity during the day, summer and fall when the water in case of hot weather often floats to the lungs to breathe, every year in November to next April for six months of hibernation. But rapid growth, 250 grams of baby sea turtle weighing up growth by 2 kg a year, the general adult sea turtle weighing 30 kg to 50 kg, the body length of up to 1.2 meters per year between May to September is the breeding season. After mating the female sea turtle, often take advantage of the coming night or before dawn, quietly climbed the sand beach in sunny, dry place with the hind legs grilled sand, dug a deep hole, after picking the eggs into the sand cover and tighten the limbs to After leaving the body smooth compaction. Typically each spawning more than a dozen to several dozen, up to 100, described as "heroic mother." Oval white color, diameter 40 mm, relying on solar radiation to hatch, usually takes about a month. The strange thing is, when the sea turtle floating water, certainly from the recent weather will change, or typhoons, or hot, or rain. If the tide toward the upstream direction Yuantou Alice head, that is predictable storm flood in three days. Accurate, efficacious, a "barometer." Turtle body is a treasure, meat and warm, high nutritional value, Li's "Compendium of Materia Medica" record: "Sunburn sea turtle with a bubble wine, can cure scrofulous, malignant sore, hemorrhoids, scabies and stubborn wind insecticide, carminative effect "; visceral used to kill one hundred insects, solution erysipelas, continued bones, blood heat treatment woman; grease can cure leprosy; gall cold toxic, chemical ginger mint leaves can be used as an emetic, can cure sore throat, abdominal wealth juice of sea turtle skirt and bear tied for the most expensive food, no wonder, "Zuo Zhuan" There Zhengling Gong and son song was fought over sea turtle meat, encroach on the tripod records.
Ou River as a sea turtle's hometown, also had brilliant. The 1950s, a large sea turtle Ou River waters common figure, Yi Ren whom relish and pride. According to the survey, Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences: large sea turtle resources Ou River in 1966 is still very impressive. "Cultural Revolution" period, designed to catch the rolling sea turtle fishing, almost so big turtle suffered disaster appears on the Ou River. On the one hand, human overfishing so cool Ou River fishery resources become increasingly scarce large sea turtle, became rare aquatic organisms. On the other hand because of the building requires a lot of digging sand, sea turtle spawning grounds so damaged; increasingly busy Ou River shipping industry and the increasingly serious water pollution, to a large sea turtle survival Ou River also brings a great threat, thus making the "General" family increasingly decline. According to a recent scientific investigation department estimates that the total number of extant sea turtle Oujiang no more than 200.
Over the years, the majority of scientists on a large sea turtle protection Ou River a lot of work. Because a large sea turtle rescue Ou River, is to save the Ou River; human existence is to save the environment. Hopefully in the near future, we are pleased to be able to sing one: Come back, Oujiang large sea turtle! |
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