SEA
TURTLE PAGE
Did You Know?
§ All but one of the
seven species of sea turtles are threatened or endangered.
§ Sea turtle diets
include sea grass, algae, crabs, mollusks, and sponges.
§ The largest sea turtle
is the leatherback. This species has been recorded diving to depths of over
3,280 ft. (1,000 m).
§ All species migrate
at least short distances from foraging areas to nesting areas and then back
again. Some travel up to 1,560 miles (2,600 km) across open ocean.
§ The most populous
U.S. nesting species is the loggerhead, which nests on beaches of the
Southeastern states.
§ All female sea
turtles lay their soft, spherical, white eggs on beaches in an egg chamber dug
with their hind flippers.
§ Hatchlings claw their
way to the surface, emerge, and immediately dash to the ocean, usually at
night.
§ Threats to sea
turtles include destruction of nesting beaches and poaching of eggs by humans,
drowning in fishermen’s trawling nets, and predation by birds and mammals.
Here is a
video of sea turtles hatching on a beach in Florida.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgyKvQe6N9U
And here is
a video of a sea turtle swimming.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ymrrzjaDIQ
100’s of sea
turtles waddling to the water.
Many
different colors of sea turtles.
Here is a
link to a site called, Pretoma, that tries to help the animals in the
Golfo Dulce. Like the dolphins, and sea turtles.