| > Also, sea turtles cry 8 litres an hour "Turtles cry because they’re eating. No, really! The example that Czerski uses is a turtle eating jellyfish. Less than one percent of jellyfish is organic material and a turtle (the author uses a leatherback as an example) must eat 80% of her body weight. Jellyfish have the same salinity as the ocean itself, so as you can imagine, this results in a TON of salt being ingested by turtles. It’s not just jellyfish, either. Other marine substances and creatures have the same salinity as the sea. For example, algae. To avoid ingesting all of this salt (which would kill the turtles), they expel it back out in the form of tears." https://kookaunty.com/kook-aunty-blog/3vnblbkjnil2txo7jevy1u... https://www.researchgate.net/publication/316669935_Crying_a_... That was such an obscure fact that I had to look it up. Wow wild. Thanks for sharing. |