Sentences with phrase «turtle hatchlings on»

The main predator of green turtle hatchlings on the island is the yellow crab (Johngarthia lagostoma), which is not much larger than the hatchlings themselves.

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This amazing ability enables these tiny, defenseless hatchlings to embark on their 8,000 - mile migration around the Atlantic, «and they do it alone without following other turtles,» says Lohmann.

In order to reduce the risk of the hatchling turtles becoming habituated to humans, our biologists keep handling to an absolute minimum and the turtles that are on exhibit at the Museum are behind one - way glass.

A sea turtle hatchling emerges from an egg on a beach in Palm Beach County in southeast Florida.

«Our IHC method is a breakthrough in hatchling sex identification in leatherback turtles, a species whose reproductive system differentiates more slowly than on other sea turtle species.»

The effects of incubation environment, sex and pedigree on the hatchling phenotype in a natural population of loggerhead turtles.

Join naturalists on Wednesdays and Fridays at 8 pm to watch turtle hatchlings make their way into the surf at the Guided Nighttime Sea Turtle Walk.

Cats are known to prey on small mammals, birds, and even sea - turtle hatchlings, frogs and toads, snakes, lizards, and insects.

[FN48] Outside of Florida, there are documented cases of cat predation on sea turtle hatchlings.

Mama - turtles come to lay eggs on the beach surrounding Constance Tsarabanjina, where the team has built a turtle nursery and once a week guests have the opportunity to release the hatchlings at the water's edge.

Next door to the resort is a protected area of beach where sea turtles lay their eggs, so during the season they can watch the eggs being buried by the mother turtle, or the tiny hatchlings scrabble down to the sea on organised turtle watching sessions.

Sea turtle hatchlings become disoriented by lights on the beach from businesses and homes.