我們每天晚上都要到離宿舍1.5小時車程的海灘巡邏,找巢和海龜媽媽。拾到的龜蛋會放到海灘的hatchery 裡,數數目然後整個新巢堆了蛋。因為周圍有小天敵例如浣熊、貓等愛吃蛋的小動物,因此hatchery 被四面圍封防止牠們進入。我們每晚到hatchery 查看有沒有龜仔出世,如有便把牠們放生到海裡去。昨晚有一隻龜仔出世了,但牠懶得不想動,或未瞓醒?呵護了牠一小時,放在沙上還是沒動 (但反轉牠又很醒爬),最後還是把牠放回hatchery 等待牠瞓醒才放了。 . . . Patrol We will patrol the beach where it is 67km away from our hostel every night. Searching for nest and turtle mother. If there is a nest, we will take out all the eggs , count the numbers and put them into hatchery , we create a new nest for incubation. As there are some animals like racoon and cats etc. love the eggs, the nursery has to be fenced off. Every night we will check the nests in hatchery to see if there are babies hatched. If so, we will release them. Last night we got one baby, but he is just so sleepy that it seems didn't want to leave. I took care of it for 1 hour but finally he still didnt move at all when i put him on the sand. So finally we put him back to the hatchery and wait until he is active again later. ...
Olive ridley 是這裡最常見的海龜,但原來也有綠海龜罕有的在這裡下蛋,不過不是香港那種,是sub-species,與的香港不同~ 這隻綠海龜孵化期比較慢,還是逐隻出世的呢。 . . . Olive ridley is the common species to breed here, but there is another species - green turtle rarely breed here too! It is the sub-species of green turtle and is different from Hong Kong's green turtle. They hatched slower than olive ridley. Species: Pacific Green Turtle (Chelonia mydas agassizi)
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