"Let's go. It seems that the anglerfish will not attack us. Let's take this opportunity to leave quickly." Professor Chen Yu said.
Xiang Yang asked: "Go up or continue diving?"
"You can make your own decision. Professor Li and I are going to go down no matter what. Since we have to go down no matter what, instead of going up now and coming down again later, I think it's better to get things done in one go."
"Then go down." This time Xiang Yang did not follow behind Director Li Bo, but took the lead and swam towards the deeper seabed alone. It seemed unintentional, but in fact, from the curve of Xiang Yang's swimming, it can be found that Xiang Yang was heading towards the direction of the giant leatherback turtle.
Chen Yu hurriedly chased after him, "Wait, Xiang Yang, follow the teacher."
Director Li Bo said, "Let him lead the way. He is more familiar with underwater than us."
At this moment, as if to prove that what Director Li said was reasonable, Xiang Yang, who was swimming in the front, suddenly exclaimed, "A turtle, a huge turtle!"
The exclamation was of course fake, but the leatherback turtle was the real deal.
Not only Xiang Yang was exclaiming, the strange voice inside the helmet also exclaimed, "It's really a leatherback turtle, and it's an adult leatherback turtle!"
A large group of people on the shore crowded around a small computer screen, each one so excited that they couldn't express themselves in words.
Even Professor Chen Yu, who was always calm and amiable, was surprised and delighted. "Did they really find a leatherback turtle?"
The answer is of course obvious.
Following Xiang Yang's instructions, Chen Yu looked in one direction and immediately saw a leatherback turtle, larger than a millstone, lying leisurely in the seaweed.
"I actually found it." Professor Chen Yu laughed out loud.
"Should we try to catch it now?" Xiang Yang asked.
"No, we just need to confirm that there are leatherback turtles in this area. We are not responsible for other matters." After discovering the leatherback turtle, Professor Li was in a good mood: "Professor Chen, look at it carefully, doesn't it look like a cartoon character?"
"It? A cartoon character?" Chen Yu looked at the leatherback turtle and found it difficult to associate it with a 'human'.
"Is it the talking turtle of Master Roshi in Dragon Ball?" Xiang Yang said with a smile: "In the animation Dragon Ball, Master Roshi has a turtle mount, and the prototype of that mount is the turtle."
"That's right." Director Li Bo said with a smile, "We will take pictures now and send the information back. Our mission this time is complete."
Xiang Yang tried to swim towards the leatherback turtle.
Instead of running away, the leatherback turtle stretched out its neck and swam towards Xiang Yang using its four limbs.
"The leatherback sea turtle is extremely docile and will hardly attack any creature except jellyfish. Although it is an omnivore and loves to eat jellyfish, it will also eat small fish and shrimp when food is scarce. However, human research has defined it as a staunch vegetarian. It has a small appetite and moves leisurely. Although it has the strongest defense of any known creature on the planet, it lacks means of attack and is occasionally hunted by smart marine predators such as dolphins and killer whales." said Professor Chen Yu.
"Is it a vegetarian?" Xiang Yang was puzzled. If he remembered correctly, sea turtles like to eat small fish and shrimps.
"To be precise, it is a herbivore. To judge whether a creature is a carnivore or a vegetarian, we don't look at what it likes to eat, but what kind of food it survives on. Creatures like turtles and seahorses are typical 'vegetarians'."
"Pastoral? I've only heard of plant-eating." Xiang Yang said.
"The grazing food chain is based on living green plants and is formed strictly according to the laws of the biological pyramid structure. You can think of it as a herbivorous food chain in the ocean, with plants as producers at the bottom of the food chain and large carnivorous fish and mammals as consumers at the top of the food chain."
This leatherback turtle might have seen a "human" creature on the seabed for the first time in its life. It was very fond of and curious about Xiang Yang, who was even bigger than itself but did not attack or bite it immediately after seeing it. Its big, lively eyes were spinning around staring at Xiang Yang.
"It's really smart." Xiang Yang exclaimed, "It knows how to be curious, which means it knows how to think. It gives me the feeling that its intelligence is no less than that of a humpback whale."
"Of course, its long lifespan is not in vain. But to say that its intelligence is not lower than that of a humpback whale is a bit far-fetched. The intelligence of a humpback whale is considered extremely high among mammals."
Xiang Yang stretched out his hand and stroked the leatherback turtle's head.
"Be careful." Professor Chen Yu shouted.
No matter how docile a leatherback turtle is, it is still a wild animal. Even a domesticated pet dog will bite a stranger if he approaches, let alone a sea turtle.
If you make contact with a turtle and get bitten, it would be no joke.
Don't think that just because it's a vegetarian it doesn't have a strong bite force. It can easily break the bones of a human finger with one bite.
Xiang Yang did not retract his hand, as he intuitively felt that the leather turtle had good intentions towards him.
Sure enough, when Xiang Yang touched the leather turtle's head with his hand wearing a shark skin glove, the big leather turtle just shrank its head and did not dodge, nor did it do anything out of the ordinary like biting people.
"It actually allowed you to touch it?" Professor Chen Yu said in surprise, "It seems that this leatherback turtle is even more docile than I thought."
In fact, Professor Chen Yu did not know that this leatherback turtle also encountered the first time a creature that was as large as itself but did not directly attack it when they met. This immediately made the leatherback turtle have a very favorable impression of Xiang Yang and others.
Especially because less than an hour ago it encountered a fat and bloated ugly fish, which bit it as soon as it saw it. If it weren't for the extremely strong leathery shell on its back that the strange fish couldn't bite into, it might have been injured by now.
Xiang Yang rubbed the leatherback turtle's head, then tore off a three-meter-long piece of kelp from the side to feed the leatherback turtle.
The leatherback turtle wasn't polite either, eating with big mouthfuls.
Director Li Bo, who was watching from the side, burst out laughing. "They live in this kelp patch, and you're just feeding them kelp. Aren't you fooling them?"
"The leatherback turtle likes to eat this." Xiang Yang said with a smile.
Several people surrounded the leatherback turtle and watched it finish eating the kelp.
After eating the kelp, the leatherback sea turtle did not leave immediately, but circled around Xiang Yang and the others.
At this time, the strange voice in Xiang Yang's helmet sounded again, "Mr. Li, Professor Chen, the image of the leather turtle has been taken."
"receive."
"clear."
Director Li Bo looked at Chen Yu and Xiang Yang, "We can go up now."