Sentences with phrase «turtle eggs incubating»

For the tens of thousands of sea turtle eggs incubating in the sands of the northern Gulf of Mexico — and dangerously near the oil — it's come to this: Officials are planning to dig up the approximately 700 nests on Alabama and the Florida panhandle beaches, pack the eggs in Styrofoam boxes, and fly them to a facility in eastern Florida where they can mature.

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At the wildlife center, the turtle eggs are typically incubated for two to three months before they hatch.

For the study, the researchers incubated eggs from the Trachemys scripta elegans, a semi-aquatic turtle, under different temperature and moisture regimes to study the effect of the two environmental factors on developmental rate, egg mass, embryo mass and length, and sex ratio.

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They incubated 125 Chinese three - keeled pond turtle (Chinemys reevesii) eggs at various temperatures, creating spots in the eggs that were too hot, too cold, and just right.

Since large sea turtles have made Isla Mujeres their breeding ground for generations, the Turtle Farm gathers up the eggs it finds along the beaches and incubates them at the Turtle Farm thereby greatly increasing their chances of survival.

Each year from mid-spring through mid-autumn, a portion of the beach at The Ritz - Carlton, Cancun is transformed into a nature sanctuary where the collected eggs of nesting sea turtles are provided a safe and protected environment to incubate.

Juan Carlos and his team search out these turtles, recover the eggs and bury them at the sanctuary where they have the best chance to incubate and be safely released.

In order to protect them from other wild animals, the turtle eggs are collected and incubated at Bolong's Turtle Sanctuary.