Sentences with phrase «female sea turtle»

Students toss two coins to determine the course of a female sea turtle that is heading for the nesting grounds.

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Warming waters are turning some sea turtle populations female — to the extreme.

In sea turtles, sex is determined by the nest's environment: warmer temperatures produce females and cooler temperatures produce males.

Since 2002, they have studied sea turtles in Palm Beach County and discovered that 97 to 100 percent of the hatchlings have been female.

Just seconds ago it was dumped into a hole in the sand by a female olive ridley sea turtle.

Scientists have known that warming ocean waters are skewing sea turtle populations toward having more females, but quantifying the imbalance has been hard.

Sea turtle populations can get by with fewer males than females (SN: 3/4/17, p. 16), but scientists aren't sure how many is too few.

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Other studies of sea turtles suggest that characteristics of the sand, the slope of the beach and proximity to vegetation contribute to the success or failure of nests, but «no study has tried to determine what factors cause female leatherback sea turtles to dig a nest in a particular spot, or what factors contribute to when they come up to nest,» the researchers wrote.

The research team used long - term satellite tagging data from large tiger sharks and adult female loggerhead sea turtles, common prey of tiger sharks, to examine their movement patterns and evaluate if turtles modify their behaviors to reduce their chances of a shark attack when turtle and shark home ranges overlapped.

New research indicates that for loggerhead sea turtles in the Northwest Atlantic, the number of returning nesting females in the population and favorable climate conditions in the year or two prior to the nesting year are strongly related to the number of nests produced by these animals in a given year.

After spending many hours digging and laying eggs at Huon Island, a female green turtle makes it back to the sea as the sun rises.

With the increase of global temperatures and climate change, sea turtle nests tend to produce more female - biased sex ratios further increasing their risk of extinction.

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Like other reptiles, sea turtles breathe air, and females lay eggs.

The Dutch Caribbean Nature Alliance hosts a sea turtle tracking map to help understand migration routes and to educate middle school and high school students through an interactive «Great Migration Game» tracking Jklynn, a female Hawksbill sea turtle.

The World Wildlife Foundation offers a backstage conservation tour that includes beach patrols, chances to watch female turtles dig their nests and lay eggs, plus the opportunity to help new hatchlings make their way to the sea.

Once the female turtle heads back to sea, the marine biologist or hotel employees will relocate the eggs to a protected area to ensure that nesting sea turtles go undisturbed.

Green sea turtles have homing abilities and females will return to the very same beach on which they hatched to lay their eggs.

After mating at sea, females return to their natal beach where they carve out nests with their flippers before depositing the next generation of turtles into its sandy depths.

Dolphins and sea turtles ride the currents at Punta Sur, and each winter female bull sharks gather at Tiburones.

And while you can spot sea turtles swimming near area reefs year - round, the females come ashore at night to lay their eggs from May to September.

Thousands of female Olive Ridley sea turtles that were born on our Nayarit Pacific coast beaches return every year to build nests and lay their eggs in the exact same location where they were born, perpetuating their cycle of life.

The Kemp's Ridley sea turtle sets itself apart from other turtle populations in several ways: They're the smallest of all the Gulf of Mexico turtle species, measuring only about 2 feet when fully grown; they're the world's most endangered sea turtle; and they're known for their synchronized nesting activities, called arribadas, in which hundreds or thousands of females come ashore on the same day to lay their eggs.

That was the case on Monday in Costa Rica, where four men were convicted in the 2013 murder of Jairo Mora, a sea turtle conservationist, and related attacks on four female volunteers who worked with the young man.

Their study, titled Environmental Warming and Feminization of One of the Largest Sea Turtle Populations in the World, warns that global warming could turn the world's sea turtle populations female, possibly leading to their extinctiSea Turtle Populations in the World, warns that global warming could turn the world's sea turtle populations female, possibly leading to their extinctisea turtle populations female, possibly leading to their extinction.