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trick is that leatherbacks are mesothermic animals. This is a cross between cold- and warm-blooded. Tortilla got this ability thanks to three factors. Firstly, the turtle is almost always on the move. If you think you're working your ass off during an eight-hour shift, this reptile rests only 0.1% of the time during the day. Her muscles are constantly generating heat. Secondly, despite the constant work of the muscles, the turtle actively accumulates fat. This layer helps keep you warm when diving. Thirdly, the turtle loses heat slowly due to its size. Simple physics: the larger an object, the slower it cools. So it turns out that when swimming in cold waters, the reptile does not freeze at all. Turtles spend their entire lives in water. Only females return to the beach once every two or three years, where they were once born in order to leave offspring. Males feel solid ground under their feet only once in their lives. Well, now about cuteness. Feeling an irresistible desire to become a mother, the female turtle scoops out onto the sand and digs a hole up to a meter deep with her powerful hind flippers. Having prepared a springboard in this way, the expectant mother places the back of her body over it, and from there, as if from a cornucopia, about 100 eggs pour into the hole. After such an important process, the nest is again covered with sand and compacted tightly. The female performs this procedure 3-4 times every 10 days. It is easy to calculate that one turtle can lay up to 400 eggs per season. After two months, the sand in the place of laying begins to move, revealing tiny turtles about 5 cm in length. The baby must orientate itself with the direction and quickly, quickly move its flippers towards the water so that they are not eaten by bad birds and crustaceans. This stage of life becomes the first and last for 70% of babies! Unfortunately, at present, humans are very successfully doing what evolution could not do during the 110 million years of existence of this amazing species - actively reducing the population of leatherback turtles. Adult reptiles have few natural enemies - no jaws are enough to unpreserve an armored carcass weighing half a ton. In addition, there is little meat in turtles, so even among people it is not very popular. One of the main reasons why the leatherback turtle was given a place in the Red Book is its mouth! In creating such a mouth, evolution somehow forgot that there is still a person on Earth who likes to actively litter. But he doesn’t like to think actively. Turtles mistake discarded plastic bags for jellyfish and try to eat them. As a result, the reptiles' stomachs become filled with plastic, causing blockage of the digestive tract and the death of the animal. Author: Tatyana Syrcina Editor: Elizaveta Isaeva 🏀 Hit the hoop and get an NFT gift — https://t.me/BasketbolX_bot