Sentences with phrase «when turtle hatchlings»

Notable exceptions are when turtle hatchlings head inland to the bright lights of a beach resort instead of the safety of the moonlit sea, or birds collide en masse with brightly lit buildings.

Not exact matches

The turtle was just a hatchling when it was washed ashore by Hurricane Irma six months before.

The Turtle Hospital in Marathon doubles as a tourist attraction and sanctuary, where vets care for wounded sea turtles and educators give hourly tours of their 53 patients, including one young turtle named Irma after the storm washed it onshore when it was just a hatchling.

The group's model suggests that this temperature hike would result in all - female hatchlings, even if the turtles nest earlier, when temperatures are cooler.

Here we report that hatchling loggerheads, when exposed to magnetic fields replicating those found in three widely separated oceanic regions, responded by swimming in directions that would, in each case, help keep turtles within the currents of the North Atlantic gyre and facilitate movement along the migratory pathway.

See turtles new hatchlings (when in season) right up to turtles weighing more than 500 lb.