The output of male money tortoise is low and the farmers try to cultivate it to create a miracle.

Of the 100 newborn money turtles, only 3 are male! For a long time, the breeding number of farmed money turtles can be on the rise, while in terms of sex, there are very few male turtles, a magical phenomenon that no one has been able to change for many years, which also brings difficulties to the ecological restoration of money turtles. However, Li Yi, owner of the Li Yi money tortoise farm in Huizhou, told Yangcheng Evening News that after more than three years of exploration, he has successfully raised the output rate of farmed male turtles from 3% to more than 20%. On the 19th, several biologists flew to the Li Yi money tortoise farm in Yangcun, Huizhou to do research in order to crack the magic breeding code of money turtles.

The money tortoise is a second-class protected animal in the country. Since 1989, Li Yi, a farmer in Yangqiao Town, Boluo, began to breed money turtles. Today, Li Yi's farm has more than 2000 species of turtles, and the money turtles have been bred for the fourth generation. At present, the farm has become the largest money turtle farm in the world.

It is not difficult to raise money turtles, but there is a serious gender imbalance. According to Li Yi, compared with wild turtles, farmed golden turtles have obvious advantages in the number of eggs laid and the survival rate. The only drawback is that wild turtles produce about 40% of males, while farmed money turtles produce most of the females, while male turtles produce only 3%.

In order to solve this problem, Li Yi began to do experiments three years ago. In a litchi forest of about 3 mu of land, 40 turtles were put in to breed in imitation of the wild environment. While being artificially fed, the turtles were trained to hunt live animals. As a result, the output rate of male turtles reached more than 20%. Li Yi said that as long as the environment is "wild" enough, the output rate of male turtles will naturally increase. So he decided to build a miniature reserve for his money tortoise to create experience for the continuation of the species and its eventual return to the wild.

The success of Li Yi's money tortoise breeding has attracted the attention of biologists around the world. On May 19th, torsten blanck, a member of the Tortoise expert Group of the species Survival Committee of the World Conservation Union and a member of the International Union for Survival of Turtles and soft-shelled Turtles, and a group of five people went to Boluo. Li Yi explained in detail to them the imitating wild miniature money tortoise reserve built there.

Tolston said that so far, there is no precedent for domesticating money turtles in the wild, and there has been no protected area for money tortoises imitating the wild, and he hopes that Li Yi's initiative will provide valuable experience for the ultimate wild and continuation of the species.