The Menai Bay Conservation Area is a great place where you can fully experience the beauty of Zanzibar's nature and see sea turtles. Please note that swimming is not allowed in the reserve.
Menai Bay is an island of turtles. Reptiles swim along its shores to lay eggs. Sea turtles are somewhat different from their land counterparts. The body shape of the sea turtle is well adapted to life in the water, but not on land. The body of sea turtles has a streamlined heart-shaped shape, the limbs are modified into flippers. Another distinctive feature of sea turtles is that they do not retract their head and limbs into the shell.
Only females come to land during the laying of eggs. The female comes out to land only at night. She finds a place on a sandy beach and, with difficulty, having overcome several meters separating the place of the future nest from the tide line, she starts digging.
The turtle digs a deep hole and begins to lay large white spherical eggs there. The process of laying eggs continues for a long time, and salty tears flow profusely from the eyes of the animal.
Do you want to know why sea turtles cry and see them with your own eyes?
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Menai Bay is an island of turtles. Reptiles swim along its shores to lay eggs. Sea turtles are somewhat different from their land counterparts. The body shape of the sea turtle is well adapted to life in the water, but not on land. The body of sea turtles has a streamlined heart-shaped shape, the limbs are modified into flippers. Another distinctive feature of sea turtles is that they do not retract their head and limbs into the shell.
Only females come to land during the laying of eggs. The female comes out to land only at night. She finds a place on a sandy beach and, with difficulty, having overcome several meters separating the place of the future nest from the tide line, she starts digging.
The turtle digs a deep hole and begins to lay large white spherical eggs there. The process of laying eggs continues for a long time, and salty tears flow profusely from the eyes of the animal.
Do you want to know why sea turtles cry and see them with your own eyes?
Tours to Zanzibar - Travel Agency "Hot Line", www. hot. com. ua +38(044)227-46-09, +38(050)419-29-38, +38(067)502-05-59
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