Giant turtle lays more than 100 eggs on Navy beach
A gross Chelonia Mydas turtle has laid further than 100 eggs on the beach behind the crib of the commander-in-chief of the Royal Thai Navy, at Sattahip.
The female, twist to be 15 oldness ancient and weighing about 150 kg, crawled advance the beach inevitable to where the Sea Turtle Conservation Center at Air and Coastal Defense Command is located. No microchip was begin on the turtle, which instrument she is unknown to researchers.
Officials supervise as a great Chelonia Mydas turtle lays her eggs on the beach overdue the co-op of the commander-in-chief of the Royal Thai Navy, at Sattahip.
Rear Admiral Chaiwat Sriakkharin, skipper of Air and Coastal defense, avowed a tally on March 9 from Captain Kosit Jiamsupakit saying that the coastguard had reported that a magnificent tomato Chelonia Mydas turtle had roll in to lay her eggs under a sea bodhi tree.
This is the conforming direction in which opposed Chelonia Mydas turtles have recently laid eggs, inceptive in June 2004. Turtles had not used this part of the beach before, and the Navy had arranged a protect on the beach to prevent the eggs being stolen, or eaten by animals. However, no other eggs had been laid here since 2004.
Captain Kosit, who is guide of Air and Coastal Defense Command, went with his deputy Captain Tinakorn Kanchanataemee, and with Lt Com Khachornyot Punsiri, an bigwig at the Sea Turtle Conservation Center, to crawl the sighting. They found the turtle digging a gap in the sand, and watched as she adept laying and then covered the eggs before crawling back into the sea.
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