gecko-mad
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Did the last 2 posters actually read this thread ? abosulty ? Also I think you will find that Aboriginals do in fact eat turtle eggs.
Yep, if it can be eaten, it has been eaten.
Did the last 2 posters actually read this thread ? abosulty ? Also I think you will find that Aboriginals do in fact eat turtle eggs.
Hi guys. I live in CR and help with the egg collection.
It isn't what you think !
The dealio is, our biologists have found that by just leaving the eggs they get dug up and destroyed by females coming in days later. Then the rotting eggs feed a bacteria that inhibits the newer eggs from hatching.
What you are seeing has been very successful in nearly tripling the amount of hatchlings coming off those beaches.
Don't believe ever picture you see. That community is quite serious about their turtles !
Take care.
PS. I have a toucan rescue and a botanical garden
Hi guys. I live in CR and help with the egg collection.
It isn't what you think !
The dealio is, our biologists have found that by just leaving the eggs they get dug up and destroyed by females coming in days later. Then the rotting eggs feed a bacteria that inhibits the newer eggs from hatching.
What you are seeing has been very successful in nearly tripling the amount of hatchlings coming off those beaches.
Don't believe ever picture you see. That community is quite serious about their turtles !
Take care.
PS. I have a toucan rescue and a botanical garden
Droooooooool........think how good this place would be with 25% of the country national park, no money had been wasted on a military since 1950 and we had a worldclass medical system.
Before everyone jumps on the soapbox lets not forget we hunted whales until 1978, we shoot 20 + million roos every year and no doubt there are many that find that unacceptable. Different cultures look at things in a different way BUT maybe look at this before jumping to too many conclusions. Costa Rica has an enviable conservation record.
Costa Rica Turtle Egg Harvest Protest Email
Some nations do it for food, we did the same in the name of science. Where are all the (now extinct) mouth-brooding frogs ?
In jars at the Queensland Museum - well "conserved" as voucher specimens.
I don't believe these people are eating the eggs. Look at the number of Turtles on that beach! If they were eating them, do you think they just decided to collect them this year all of a sudden? If they were taking them for food or whatever, they would have done it year after year, and there would not be this number of turtles on a single beach. They come back to the same beach they were born on, so all of them made it away from there ok? How would you explain this if no nest went undiscovered?
have you not read the follow up articles? they only collect the first 36 hours of the breeding period.
As long as this is no new thing and has been happeneing for centurys, i have no problem with it, because then it isn;t having to much effect on the turtles. But if its new, then i'm bothered because it may have a serious effect on the whole ecosystem.
Will
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