Speaking of tortoiseshell, many people will feel familiar yet unfamiliar. Last year, an overseas student wearing a tortoiseshell shell returned to China and was sentenced, which aroused great concern. So what exactly is a tortoiseshell? Let me follow the editor of Boqi.com to learn more about it and gain more knowledge.
Tortoiseshell (definite introduction)
The tortoiseshell is one of the oldest existing creeping animals. one. It is characterized by a very strong carapace on its body. When attacked by surprise, the turtle can retract its head, tail, hands and feet into the shell. It is carnivorous and feeds on worms, snails, shrimps and small fish, as well as the stems and leaves of plants. It is a kind of sea turtle belonging to the family Turtleidae. It is the only one among the hawksbill turtles. It is also known as turtle turtle, turtle, turtle, turtle, eagle-billed turtle, thirteen-sided turtle, thirteen-scale turtle, thirteen-sided turtle, bright hawksbill turtle, The Millennium Turtle, referred to as the hawksbill, is divided into two subspecies: the Pacific hawksbill and the European and American hawksbill.
The hawksbill turtle belongs to the family Turtleidae and is the "Xuanwu" of the four mythical beasts in the Pangu legend of China. The scales of tortoiseshell are bright and translucent, and it is known as "sea gold" and is regarded as auspicious and happy things. In the international jewelry industry, tortoiseshell, pearls, amber, and coral are listed as the four major organic gemstones.
Hawksbill turtles generally move in waters with a sea depth of more than 18.3 meters, and will live in several resting places with completely different environments throughout their lives. Adult hawksbill turtles mainly move in tropical coral reefs. During the day, they will go in and out of many caves and valleys in the coral reefs, and the many caves and valleys in the coral reefs provide it with a place to rest. As a type of sea turtle that often migrates, they rest in a variety of places, including the vast ocean, lagoons and even mangrove swamps at the estuary. Little is known about the preferred resting places of young hawksbill turtles in their early stages of life, but it is hypothesized that they, like other juvenile sea turtles, live a plankton-like existence in the sea until they reach adulthood. Home.
Hawksbill turtles like to forage in coral reefs, continental shelves or shoals covered with brown algae. Although hawksbill turtles are omnivores, their most important food is sponges. Sponges consume 70 to 95 percent of the total food consumed by Caribbean hawksbill turtle populations. In addition to sponges, the hawksbill turtle's diet also includes seaweed and cnidarians such as jellyfish and sea anemones. Hawksbill turtles also eat the extremely dangerous hydrozoan man-of-war jellyfish. The hawksbill turtle will close its unprotected eyes when catching these cnidarians, and the stinging cells of highly venomous animals such as man-of-war cannot penetrate the hawksbill's scaly head, so the hawksbill turtle will not be harmed. to intimidation.
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