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Why is the leatherback turtle not a sea turtle?

The leatherback turtle lives in the sea and may well qualify for the title of sea turtle, but the fact is that it is not related to the rest of the sea turtles. Zoologists call sea turtles the closely related green turtle, hawksbill, loggerhead, riddley and olive turtle. But leathery is not called that.

It differs from sea turtles in that its shell does not fuse with the skeleton. It is thin and light, consists of many small bone plates and is covered with leather. True, the paws, like those of sea turtles, have turned into flippers in the leathery ones.

Leatherback turtles never form large herds. They live in warm seas and oceans. Like sea turtles, they come out in certain places along the coast to procreate.

Leatherback turtles are inhabitants of the open ocean. Outside of the breeding season, it is an incorrigible vagrant, swimming more than a hundred kilometers a day. They feed on everything that comes across edible: jellyfish, squid, fish, algae.

Author: Cellarius E.Yu.

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Why are we dancing?

Children, even before they can speak, and even without seeing anyone dancing, often find expression to their emotions through rhythmic movements. Do animals dance? There are birds that perform group movements in unison, such as circling, tilting, moving forward and backward.

At first, ancient man danced instinctively. He discovered that repetitive rhythmic movements evoke pleasant feelings, affect consciousness and emotions. This gave the dancing a magical power. And when a person wanted to evoke these pleasant feelings again, he began to dance. This led to the development of group dance.

And today there are tribes that are at a low level of development, which dance to attract "magical" power. There are ritual military and hunting dances, wedding and funeral dances, during planting and harvesting. These ritual dances were an integral part of religious ceremonies. They danced in the temples of ancient Egypt. The ancient Jews danced in the performance of their religious rites. The Bible says that King David danced in front of the Ark of the Covenant, expressing his religious feelings.

The Greeks developed dance to such an extent that it ceased to be part of religious ceremonies, but turned into a source of entertainment, became the basis for the development of theater and drama. The word "orchestra" was first used to refer to a dance floor in a Greek theatre.

The Greeks also used dance for the physical training of soldiers. The Romans copied the Greeks, but their dances became wild and distorted. At first, Christians used dances in worship rituals, but after the Romans perverted the dance, it was banned from church services. In the countries of the East, they also resorted to the help of dance to express religious feelings.

One of the most significant forms of dance originated in the mists of time - it's folk dance. A dance created by people of a certain religion, which has become traditional and passed down from generation to generation. Modern dances originate in folk and ballroom dance, which came from the halls of England.

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