#loggerhead turtle

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Loggerhead Turtle from Dredge

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

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Loggerhead turtle skeleton from A Guide to the Fossil Reptiles and Fishes in the Department of Geology and Paleontology in the British Museum (Natural History), 1896.

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Excerpt from this story from Smithsonian Magazine:

In February, a father and son were checking crab traps off Vancouver Island when they spotted an 80-pound loggerhead sea turtle floating in a kelp bed. The endangered turtle was hypothermic and lethargic, stunned by the chilly waters of Pedder Bay. She was also very far from her usual home in the subtropics.

The fishermen reported the turtle to wildlife authorities, who rescued the listless turtle and transported her to the Vancouver Aquarium Marine Mammal Rescue Society. Staff there named her Moira, after Moira Rose (played by Catherine O'Hara) in the TV show “Schitt’s Creek.”

Now, after months of rehabilitation and care, Moira has returned to the wild. Last month, biologists released Moira into the warm waters off San Diego Bay in California. Rescuers have been tracking her movements via a satellite tag attached to her shell, and they say she is instinctually swimming south toward Mexico.

“She's heading in the right direction,” Jeni Smith, the rescue supervisor at SeaWorld San Diego, tells NBC Los Angeles.

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Travel Pics

Up North Pics!

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Loggerhead turtles lay first nests of season

Loggerhead hatchlings (CNS): The first turtle nest of the season was found by the Department of Environment’s volunteer team on Cayman Brac last month, and just a day later, the first nest on Grand Cayman was discovered. As the season gets underway, six loggerhead turtle nests have been found on five different beaches so far. Female loggerheads usually start to lay eggs a few weeks before green…

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

[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

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🐢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.

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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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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

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"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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