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海龟很可能会无配偶

Africa is almost completely surrounded by oceans.

Here on the east coast, there are animals feeling the changing climate in a most surprising way.

This is a young female green turtle.

During her lifetime, she will travel thousands of miles through the ocean looking for food.

Turtles return to the same beach which they hatched to lay their own eggs.

The eggs are buried in the sand

and the hatchlings will emerge after about two months.

But there's a strange thing about turtle eggs.

And that is the temperature at which the eggs are kept will determine the sex of most of the hatchlings.

If the sand temperature is high, they will be female,

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