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Sylvia's wish provides us with that leverage, that access to the heart of human beings, you might say, who have rarely seen places beyond their own toes, but are now hopefully going to become interested in the full life-cycle of creatures like these sea turtles, who indeed spend most of their time in the high seas.
But what we also know is that species like these sea turtles do not stay put in the Eastern Tropical Pacific Seascape.
And it was the custom of those flaneurs to show they were men of leisure by taking turtles for walks and letting the reptile set the pace.
A budding young naturalist who loved turtles, he immediately settled on the Galapagos.
For example, there are some tortoises called Blanding's turtles.
And when you look at these 70 year-old turtles, you can't tell the difference, just by looking, between those turtles and 20 year-old turtles.
That's why people keep mammals in the home and not turtles or snakes or something like that, who don't have that kind of empathy.
DL: She saw fish, dolphins, whales, sharks, and even some sea turtles.
These are animals like alligators and most turtles.
In painted turtles, for example, warm temperatures above the critical temperature will produce females within the eggs, and cool temperatures will produce a male.
I'm not sure who came up with this mnemonic, but you can remember that when it comes to painted turtles, they are all hot chicks and cool dudes.
Sea turtles are miraculous.
Cohorts of the dinosaurs, sea turtles have survived through the challenges of eons, existing still today, where many others have ended their evolutionary run.
Roughly a month and a half after having been laid, the surviving eggs hatch, and the young turtles, each small enough to fit in the palm of your hand, squirm to the surface, emerging from the sand en masse, and making their desperate dash for the sea.
For those that actually reach the surf, they trade one set of threats for another, as they first face the repelling force of the waves, and then find a whole new host of predators awaiting them: Various fish, dolphins, sharks, and sea birds, as the young turtles come to the surface for air.
For their first few days of life, should they count themselves amongst the living, the vulnerable turtles swim frantically forward.
Over the past century, and in particular in the last several decades, human endeavors, from beach development to plastic refuse to poaching, long lines, nets, and even noxious chemicals, including oil, have upped the ante for sea turtles, causing their survival rate to drop to around one percent or less, from each nesting cycle.
I pictured big sharks ruling the food chain and saw graceful sea turtles dancing across coral reefs.
And I've been privy to the mating rituals of green sea turtles in the Mozambique Channel.
They point out that true hiccups are found only in mammals and that they're not retained in birds, lizards, turtles, or any other exclusively air-breathing animals.
Exceptions to the size rule include bats, birds, moles, and turtles, but in each case, these animals have other adaptations that allow them to escape predators.
Long lines with hundreds of hooks or huge nets round up massive amounts of fish, along with other species, like seabirds, turtles, and dolphins.
In this scene, it's really important we see deep into the underwater, so we understand what the East Australian Current is, that the turtles are diving into and going on this roller coaster ride.
If you are asked to estimate the walking speed of a man in a video, for example, your answer will be different if you're told to think about cheetahs or turtles.
Most mammals and reptiles rely on a flexible rib cage that expands to allow them to breathe, but turtles use abdominal muscles attached to the shell instead: one to breathe in, and one to breathe out.
Our first fossil evidence of the full shell characteristic of modern turtles is about 210 million years old, and belongs to a species called Proganochelys quenstedti, whose ribs had fused.
Unlike modern turtles, it couldn’t retract its head into its shell, but had defensive spines on its neck.
Modern turtle shells are almost as diverse as the turtles themselves.
Sea turtles have flatter, lighter shells for streamlined gliding through the water.
Leatherback and softshell turtles have shells without the ring of bone around the edge of the carapace or the tough scutes covering it, making it easier for them to squeeze into tight spaces.
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