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Hawksbill turtle is a large sea turtle. The body length can reach more than 1 meter, and the weight is about 50 kg.
Because there are a total of 13 scales on the back, plates, the surface is smooth, with brown and light yellow blood filament pattern, in a tile-like arrangement, so it is also known as thirteen scales.
The tortoiseshell horn plate has the reputation of "sea gold", and since ancient times, it has been regarded as a thing of auspiciousness and happiness, representing the nobility and sacred demeanor, and can avoid evil and town houses, and is an ornament of the court magnates of the past.
The back armor of the tortoiseshell can be used to make exquisite ornaments, and the plate can be used to make buttons, glasses frames, bracelets, rings, fan handles and other items, as early as Peacock Southeast Flying, there are also related records such as foot creeps, tortoiseshell light on the head.
China's ancients have a long history of playing tortoiseshells, and the exquisite tortoiseshell products excavated in many Han Dynasty sites prove that around 200 AD, there has been a relatively mature tortoiseshell production process.
Hawksbill turtles inhabit warm, tropical oceans. Feeds on fish, shrimp and crabs, molluscs and seaweed. Distributed in Fujian, Taiwan, Hainan, Xisha Islands and other places. The main products are Taiwan, Fujian and Guangdong Hainan Island, Xisha Islands and other places.
The carapace of the tortoiseshell is very beautiful, under the projection of strong light or flashlight light, a transparent beautiful pattern can be seen, transparent blood filaments are deep into the nail piece, and its pigment spots are countless dots, such as small dots of millet gathered together, forming an irregular shape with uneven boundaries.
It belongs to the national second-level protected animal. Although it seems harmless to humans and animals, it is actually a grumpy personality. In addition, it is more "anti-beating" turtle shell, so in the ocean is basically "invincible in the world".
Come to think of it, it can be used in medicine, and its ornamental value is also high, and human beings are its only threat.
The main food of tortoiseshell is poisonous sponges. Sponges often attach to coral reefs, and corals are a favorite place to live for hawksbill turtles, so feeding on sponge animals that barely move much is very convenient and desirable.
The lifespan of hawksbill turtles is extremely long, and some researchers have proposed that their lifespan can even reach 1500 years, but on the one hand, it is repeatedly forbidden to hunt, on the other hand, marine pollution, which also makes the survival of this long-lived animal threatened.
If one day, the last tortoiseshell leaves us, this beautiful and precious animal will really be just a symbol in the history books and in the poetry and song.