pickAn amazing book about the different ocean types and their ecosystems. I learned so much from this.
But I have to admit that if I hadn‘t read What the Wild Sea Can Be from this year‘s Women‘s Prize Nonfiction Longlist, I probably never would have gotten to this.
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What the Wild Sea Can Be: The Future of the Worlds OceanMore, remarkably, studies have shown female krill shrinking in winter and regressing their external sexual physiology, thereby effectively returning to their juvenile life stage, when their energy needs were smaller. This downsizing enables them to use their own body protein as fuel to last them through the lean times. With the return of spring they regain their sexual characteristics and become fully mature just in time for the breeding season.
But as on many oceanic islands, today the biggest threats to Rain‘s turtles originate from far away. Higher tides caused by rising sea levels are now flooding many of their nests every year. And there is an additional and invisible danger.
While it is still in the egg, the sex of the developing turtle is determined by the temperature of the nest in which it lies. Nigh temperatures lead to the development of females, lower ones to males. In recent
This is just amazing and unbelievable
