Baby ocean turtles do n’t really need our help being adorable , but remarkably , scientist have figure out a room to make the tiny shelled reptilian even more mind - numbingly cute : by hypnotizing them .
Mohd Uzair Rusli , a life scientist at the University of Malaysia Terengganu , run into some trouble late when he was trying to weigh baby green sea turtles for a physiologic study . The niggling scamp just would n’t stay put still ! But Rusli stumbled upon a simple result when he noticed that his hatchling did halt wriggle if place in a dark container or stacked atop one another . He suspects that darkness and the press of stack trigger the sensation of being throng in a nest with hundreds of other babe sea turtles .
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Using these observation , Rusli developed a childlike hypnosis technique . By leaf the hatchlings on their backs , shutting their eye and apply gentle pressure to their chests , he can trap his subjects long enough to take an precise weight mensuration . Between this new development andpoop - catching swimwear , we ’re well on our mode to learning everything there is to do it about baby sea polo-neck , or fail of cunning in the process .
[ New Scientist ]
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