#Loggerhead Sea Turtle

[keywestwildlifecenter]

Eight hatchling Loggerhead Sea Turtles rescued late last night after becoming disorientated at the Pier House. The Loggerheads are being transferred to Save A Turtle of the Florida Keys this morning for release after they are evaluated. www.keywestwildlifecenter.org

[respect-the-locals]

🐢Daily Sea Turtle Fact:🐢

Loggerhead Sea Turtle: The loggerhead turtle is named for its large head. Loggerheads are carnivores, only occasionally consuming plant material. They have powerful jaw muscles, designed to crush their prey, that enable them to feed on mostly bottom dwelling invertebrates such as whelks, conchs, other mollusks, horseshoe crabs, and other crabs.

[sitting-on-me-bum]

Loggerhead sea turtles (like this one, on a Florida beach) use Earth’s magnetic field to navigate back to the beach where they were born.

PHOTOGRAPHY BY ESTHER HORVATH

[wayti-blog]

"Loggerhead sea turtles (Caretta caretta) can learn to associate food with the geomagnetic signatures of various oceanic regions, suggesting that they are able to find known foraging areas using an internal magnetic ‘map’. This map and an internal magnetic ‘compass’ rely on distinct mechanisms, implying that turtles have two magnetic senses."

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[makabrefantasies]

Finished cardboard loggerhead sea turtle

Not as good as my bonnethead shark but idc

[jaydoesresearch]

The Loggerhead Sea Turtle nest in Pass Christian was excavated during a public event on September 5, 2023. All of the contents from the nest were removed from the sand by IMMS staff and counted to determine the success of the nest.

Surprisingly, we found a handful of live hatchlings! Check out the video to see their adventure from the nest to the ocean!

[mylefteye]

Loggerheads turtle 🐢 he is so little

[aquariumpacific]

After months of rehabilitation and care at the Aquarium of the Pacific, a loggerhead sea turtle has returned to the ocean.

[the-prince-of-vos]

mermay days 22-31! prompts by critbit on instagram, speedpaints available over there ✈️ happy mermay everyone!

[theodoreangelos]

Loggerhead sea turtles in embrace Логгерхеды или головастые морские черепахи в обнимку Unechte Karettschildkröten in Umarmung Caouannes en étreinte Caretta caretta

[keywestwildlifecenter]

Thanks to Sunset Watersports for reporting these three Loggerhead Sea Turtle Hatchlings weak and lethargic on Smathers Beach. We were able to arrive quickly to make the rescue. The hatchlings are being transferred to the The Turtle Hospital for evaluation and care. Thanks to everyone involved in this rescue! www.keywestwildlifecenter.org

[johnschneiderblog]

Cold snap

Cooler weather here this week has forced the alligators back into their underwater burrows. I didn't see a single one on my morning walk Thursday, which is highly unusual.

However, hardier denizens of Hilton Head's lagoons - turtles, for example - were out and about, giving us a good excuse for another lessons in the lexicon of animal collectivity: A group of turtles is a “bale.”

I believe the turtle is this photo are common snapping turtles, although the true stars of the turtle world here are loggerhead sea turtles. From early May until October, they come ashore to prepare their nests and lay their eggs.

Loggerheads lay more than 100 eggs per nest; only about 1 in 1,000 survive to adulthood.

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Sea turtles

[writing--references]

Loggerhead sea turtle with an injured flipper at the South Carolina Aquarium’s Sea Turtle Care Center in Charleston, South Carolina.

[makabrefantasies]

I ran out of superglue ;^;

[juliiluvvsyu]

Image 1 : Loggerhead - Caretta caretta

Fun Fact : Loggerheads are the oldest reptile species which started to live in the sea instead of land. The oldest fossil of them that is known is from 150 million years ago ! (*´◒`*)

Image 2 : Kemp's ridley - Lepidochelys kempi

Fun Fact :The Kemps ridley sea turtle is the smallest and most endangered sea turtle species.( omg the nose looks like a heart !) (*^o^*)

Image 3 : Leatherback - Dermochelys coriacea

Fun Fact : Leatherbacks are the only species of sea turtle that don't have scales and a hard shell. (๑˃̵ᴗ˂̵)

September 29 , 2023 (^_−)−☆

Happy Birthday, @lonely99sworld ! 🫶