Before, I also had an article saying that foreign turtles could not be released. Please forgive me for repeating it here. First of all, let's talk about the harm of the release of the Brazilian tortoise: due to its strong reproductive ability, it will compete with the original turtle species for food, seize the living space, and even "marry" with the original turtle species, resulting in genetic pollution. Produce new varieties and enhance its reproductive ability! Moreover, it has few natural enemies in the wild. In addition, the Brazilian tortoise carries salmonella, which can be transmitted to warm-blooded animals!
Now let's talk about why your Brazilian tortoise is easy to get sick. Let's combine wild tortoises with domestic tortoises!
First: on physique.
As we all know, wild turtles generally live in rivers, lakes and streams. The growth process of wild turtles has experienced the cruel test of nature, but you may not know that in fact, the elimination rate of young wild turtles is extremely high, and the fragile sick turtles have no possibility of long-term survival. If you can grow into an adult, you can say that you are the best in the group. So it also caused everyone's wrong view. Compared with small turtles raised at home, wild turtles have a big gap in disease resistance and compression resistance! The small turtles raised at home are very different from the wild turtles in terms of diet and living habits, so the wild turtles are far superior to the small turtles raised at home in terms of physical fitness!
Second: About the living environment.
1. Turtles live in the wild and solve their own problems of eating, drinking and living, while small turtles raised at home can be carefree. Tortoise's food in the wild includes all kinds of freshwater fish, mollusks, eggs, aquatic insects, meat and water of all kinds of domestic animals and wild animals, silkworm chrysalis, corn, wheat, soybeans, millet, rice, cakes, fruits and vegetables in green feed, aquatic plants and so on. Moreover, the small turtles raised at home are mainly based on turtle food. Tired of running around looking for food and doing more exercise. The life raised at home rarely moves in the feeding container, and is often fattened by the physique fed by the little master!
2, water quality, because living in the wild, wild turtles have strong disease resistance, you can choose your own suitable living place. Living place, rivers and streams, because of the perennial sunshine, the water quality is not serious! But the little turtle raised at home has no choice, and often gets sick because of poor water quality!
3. On breeding, it is convenient to breed wild turtles outside, but it is more troublesome to raise them at home. Either you raise a male and a female to breed, or you find another kind of heterosexual turtle raised by others. The Brazilian tortoise has a strong reproductive ability, usually about 3 years, but it can't help but breed in large numbers!
Third: On the advantages of Brazilian tortoise.
By virtue of its high fertility, high survival rate and high predation ability, Brazilian tortoise threatens the survival of native turtles. As it happens, the Brazilian tortoise lacks natural enemies in China! In the competition for food, the Brazilian tortoise has obvious species advantages and can show great adaptability in high-density environment and multi-species competition. They are not only invasive substances in China, but also invasive species in the world. In China, the number of Brazilian tortoises is increasing by tens of millions every year!
So these are the reasons why the Brazilian tortoise can become a bully in the wild after being released. But the Brazilian turtle raised at home is also very cute! Captured a large number of loyal fans, cute and easy to use. In short, there is no problem in raising Brazilian tortoises, but don't release them at will!