...the increasing in temperature. One species that may be potentially affected greatly are sea turtles, species such as the loggerhead, leatherback, green turtles and a few others. Recent studies have shown that the increasing temperatures maybe threatening the stability of this ancient creature. Sea Turtles have been on Earth for roughly 240 million years, with fossils dating back to late Jurassic period (Neaq). Over a span of millions of years turtles have experienced serious environmental fluctuations, from the breaking up of PANGEA to major sea level rising of one hundred meters to the blistering cold Ice Ages (Neaq). The key to their survival lies in thier ability to continuously find a stabilized habitat to leave their eggs during incubation (Education-portal). Turtles commonly have a slow growth rate, this trait is an advantage for a turtle because over the years it becomes wiser learning how to adapt and cope with changes. During nesting season female turtles travel miles in search for a stabilized beach where weather conditions are ideal and safe from predators and human activities, ensuring the maximum potential for its hatchlings to make it to the ocean. Despite these efforts a hatchlings chances of surviving to maturity is one in every thousand sea turtles. For this reason turtles spawn hundreds of eggs at once in an effort to increase the chances of survival, however; turtles main traits such as their long lifespan, strong competitive...
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...ObKelsey Brand PSYC 3110 Animal Observation Paper 1 10/10/12 I. The Catalog: Behaviors and Definitions. Trachemys scripta scripta (Yellow-Bellied Slider Turtle) Behaviors: | Definitions: | Swimming | Wading through water as a means of getting from point A to point B. | Sun-Bathing | Prolonged on top of flat surface under the heating lamp with all four claws and neck stretched out. | Stretching | Top two, back two, or all four limbs reaching outward from the shell. | Relaxing | Lying on top of flat surface above the water. Simply resting with no means of being aware of its surroundings. | Sleeping | A period of rest, above or under the water, where the animal is not consciously aware of the environment. | Hiding | Concealed under or behind an object larger than the animal. Such as the cave, filter, or palm tree decoration. | Climbing | Ascending upwards using all four claws of the rocky surface to get above water. | Running | Rapidly traveling on foot on a stable surface by means of getting from point A to point B. | Walking | Slow travel on foot on a stable surface by means of getting from point A to point B. | Alert | Closely watching and being extremely conscious of the environment and surroundings. Usually after seeing or hearing an unusual being. | Floating | Hovering with shell and head protruding from the water, while the bottom of the shell and claws are underwater. | Clawing | To touch the rock roughly and continue to move claws back...
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...The biology of the sea turtle and facors affecting its population Upon first sight of the great sea turtle it might just think that it is like any other turtle. The truth is that marine turtles are beautiful creatures spending a majority of their lives wandering endlessly through our massive ocean. These reptiles have the ability to do amazing things. Some of these things include evolving to a range of purely innate responses to the demands of a changing suite of environments and having remarkable navigations skills for their excursions that may last up to several years. Sea turtles have been in existence for more than 100 million years and researchers have been studying them for great deal of time. During the past 20 years however, the natural history of marine turtles has received growing attention and much has been learned (Bjorndal 19). Instantly you will fall in love with their beauty and majestic way of life. The biology behind these amazing animals causes them stand out from much of the ocean life. There are seven different species of sea turtles. These species include Kemps Ridley, Flatback, Loggerhead, Olive Ridley, Leatherback, Hawksbill, and the Hawaiian Green Turtle (Gardner 2004). Unlike many animals the female sea turtle is generally larger than the males. The main distinction between the two is that the male tends to have a longer tail. The core part of the sea turtle and the part that helps protect them from predators is the shell. The shell grows around the...
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...protection plan that I would create for the Box turtle would be an awareness plan to make sure that the inhabitants of the area were the box turtles live are aware of how box turtles live and also know how they can do their part. The awareness plan will educate people that “Box turtles rarely bite, but be gentle with them and avoid touching their head” (biodavidson, 2014). Usually when people are made aware of a problem and are provided a solution they usually comply, especially when they value something. The box turtle; in a lot of areas is taken in by families as a pet. Most people probably think that when they take them as pets they are doing them a favor but when they take them out of their habitat they are actually stressing them out to the point were they cannot reproduce most of the time. The action plan would be to educate everyone, the young preschoolers, elementary, middle school and high school students to be well aware of what type of habitat that the box turtles should live in as well as what type of care box turtles need. The action plan education plan would explain the importance of not taking box turtles as pets, never to release box turtles back into the wild unless the person knows exactly were in the wild the box turtle came from, explain the importance of letting the box turtle cross the road or helping the turtle cross, by picking it up and helping it cross to the other side. Explain that if a box turtle nests in a persons yard, the people should not...
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...The green turtle is one of the largest sea turtles and the only herbivore among the different species. Green turtles are in fact named for the greenish color of their cartilage and fat, not their shells. In the Eastern Pacific, a group of green turtles that have darker shells are called black turtles by the local community. Green turtles are found mainly in tropical and subtropical waters. Like other sea turtles, they migrate long distances between feeding grounds and the beaches from where they hatched. Classified as endangered, green turtles are threatened by overharvesting of their eggs, hunting of adults, being caught in fishing gear and loss of nesting beach sites. Body Temperature- All reptiles are ectotherms. They are cold blooded and their bodies cannot create heat, so they must get it from another source, the sun. Body Covering- have a body covering of scaly skin. All reptiles have scaly skin. This tough, scaly skin is called scute or osteoderms Habitat-They both live in Land and Water How they Reproduce-The reproduction process of sea turtles is important as it is what keeps the various species alive. The age for maturity significantly varies from one species to the next. For some, it is when they are 3-5 years of age. For others though it is as late as 20-50 years of age. It will depend on the type of sea turtle species you are talking about. The mating process takes place in the water so there isn’t too much known about it. This has been confirmed due...
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...in her personal testimony, “Turtles inevitably became deeply rooted in the culture, featured in local dishes and even on the back of the 10 cents.” The Caymans Island worship the turtles and never was ashamed of consuming the turtles to practice their customs. Eating turtles go as far as the first settler in the U.S. More so that it was introduced in the first Thanksgiving. Stephanie Butler wrote in her article, “it (turtle meat) was president Taft’s favorite food.” Turtle meat appeared on a lot of the presidential dinners. It was also served during the revolutionary war. Turtle meat became popular for most of is texture and flavor. Stephanie then writes, “turtle is said to contain seven types of mean, each reminiscent of pork, chicken...
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...gov/pr/species/turtles/green.htm website, government website so will be reliable [2] http://www.iotn.org/iotn-15-6.php [3] http://www.upi.com/Science_News/2013/10/29/Human-impact-on-sea-turtles-shows-up-in-studies-of-genetic-diversity/UPI-16391383084837/#ixzz2jFew9cIu Biological solutions The Indian Ocean - South-East Asian (IOSEA) Marine Turtle Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) protects 6 marine turtles including the green sea turtle. It is a non-binding intergovernmental agreement that aims to protect, conserve, and recover sea turtles and their habitats in the Indian Ocean and South-East Asia region. [1] This includes the turtles on the coast of Nellore. Graph showing total number of nests protected in Nellore district from 2008 to 2012 February [2] The number of green sea turtles is particularly important for creating a diverse ecosystem since they are the only herbivorous marine turtle and so they transfer nutrients from nutrient-rich areas like sea grass beds to nutrient-poor ecosystems like nesting beaches. This is why many organisations, such as the Inter-American Convention (IAC) for the Protection and Conservation of Sea Turtles, trys to increase their numbers and diversity, so they prevent the sea turtle’s extinction and they can continue to play their beneficial role to their ecosystem. The IAC is an intergovernmental treaty that provides the legal framework for countries in the Americas and the Caribbean to take actions for the benefit of sea turtles. [1] Between...
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...Abstract The topic of this paper is Sea turtles endangered by Global warming. It argues that global warming have a bad effect on the environment and threatens some species in the world. In the specially, sea turtles which is the oldest species in live in the world so we need to find solutions to protect this specie. There are three reasons for this argument. The first is that we need to find solutions to decrease global warming. The second is that we need to decrease the pollution due to human. Finally, protect the sea turtle of human and predators. Sea Turtles threatened with extinction A lot of species are endangered because of global warming and more specifically the Sea turtle, which is the oldest species known in the world (Velaquez-Manoff 2007); it lived during the dinosaurs. Now the change of the climate threatens these species, and if we don’t do something in a hurry, this species will disappear. The increasing temperature (more than 2 degrees these last years) have an impact directly on the turtle’s eggs (Velaquez-Manoff 2007, Brahic 2007). The problem is that more females than males are born; that means the future will be difficult for reproduction. According to WWF (2007), it’s not only the future population which is in peril, because there is also habitat loss and degradation, pollution, disease because of human and marine pollution, and natural predators. As Bhattacharya (2007) said, we need to do something and we can already...
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...Hey there do you know anything about leatherback sea turtle? They are very cool animals. Let’s get started. Overall Leatherbacks are sea turtles and the only turtle with no shell. Also, the leatherback sea turtle is the heaviest turtle out there. It can weigh up to 2,000 lb. and grow up to 11 ft. They can swim up to 5km to 8km. Although, they can swim fast, they cannot swim backwards. This is why many of them get caught in fishing nets. Turtles breath oxygen, but they spend most of their time in water. There main adaptations are there flippers, shell, and jaw. Food Leatherback's eat mainly jellyfish because they don't have teeth. Eating hard animals could break their jaw. Also, they are immune to jellyfish's sting which means they eat jellyfish. They also eat small crustaceans too. They are mainly predators unless there is a tiger shark in the area. The relationship would be leatherbacks to jellyfish. If there is a tiger shark it would be tiger shark to leatherback. Their food chain would go from seaweed (producers), small fish (primary consumer), jelly fish (secondary consumer), leatherback sea turtle (territory consumers) and hermit crab (decomposer). There are no...
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...Sea Turtles Sea turtles are amazing creatures and have been around for a long time. They are large marine animals with a leathery shell and flippers that come on shore to lay eggs. A lot of times humans mistaken these sea turtles to be true animals. Including abilities and characteristics of sea turtles humans don’t think of sea turtles to be so close to us. Sea turtles are really old animals and are very important. Sea turtles have a major effect on the environment around them. In the first place, sea turtles’ senses and speed have adapted to help them survive in the turtles’ environment .In the book, Sea Turtles an Extraordinary Natural History of Some Uncommon Turtles it says; “Sea turtles are not like normal fish, they are always holding their...
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...The endangered Hawksbill Sea Turtle is found in the Atlantic, Pacific, Indian Oceans (World Wildlife, 2018). Not too keen on deep water, found mostly near the coast line. Not being as large as other seat turtles they still grow up to be big to us. Known to eat sponges, sea anemones, and jellyfish (World Wildlife, 2018). Weighing in at 90-150 lbs, Length of 30-35 inches. Feeding on mostly sponges there pointed beaks to get them from tight spots (World Wildlife, 2018). Their benefit is they help maintain the health of coral reefs and seagrass beds (World Wildlife, 2018). Hawksbills Maintain the health of coral reefs. Removing sponges and providing better access for reef fish to eat (World Wildlife, 2018). Their colored and patterned shells...
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...Turtles, as I’m sure you know, are known for being slow. Sadly, this slowness, along with speeding cars and highways, causes thousands of turtle/tortoise deaths each year, especially in places like Burwash Ontario, where the amount of turtle roadkill is substantially high. Here I will be explaining my reasoning for why wildlife crossings should be constructed. First off, these wildlife crossings would not only aid in the preservation of the turtle, but also every other wandering animal that may not be quick enough to dodge a car. Numerous possum, deer, skunks, racoons, squirrels, you name it get run over every year, and these passages would provide a massive aid in the reduction of roadkill. For example, a biologist named Matt Aresco was able...
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...Rising Temperatures Put Sea Turtles at Risk Sea turtles are said to be one of Earth’s most ancient creatures and the seven species that can be found today have been around for roughly 110 million years, which dates back to when dinosaurs ruled the planet. Their unique shell allows for easy movement through the water and unlike other turtles, sea turtles cannot retract their legs and head into their shells (“Sea Turtle Migration”, 2013). Depending on the species of sea turtle, their diet tends to consist of smaller sea life such as jellyfish, seaweed, crabs, shrimp, sponges, snails and algae. It is also interesting to note that green sea turtles can stay under water for as long as five hours even though the length of a feeding is usually five minutes or less. Their heart rate slows to conserve oxygen and nine minutes may elapse between heartbeats (“Sea Turtle Migration”, 2013). It is often quite difficult to gauge the total population count for sea turtles because both male and juvenile sea turtles do not return to shore once they hatch and reach the ocean, which makes it extremely difficult to keep track of numbers (“Sea Turtle Migration”, 2013). Most of the behavioral information that has been gathered on sea turtles is based off of females and their hatchlings. When females come to shore to lay their eggs they dig out a hole, bury their clutch of eggs and then return to the ocean. The eggs are left unattended to hatch and make their way back to the ocean, which is where...
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...Sea Turtles and The Gulf Oil Spill On Tuesday, April 20th, 2010 an event occurred that would change marine life forever. On that horrifying day BP’s deep horizon oilrig in the Gulf of Mexico exploded. The spill was considered the 4th major oil spill in the Gulf in over 50 years. The oil spill affected a lot of marine life, but mostly affected the sea turtles. The sea turtles in the Gulf were greatly affected by this catastrophic event in many ways. Sea turtles have lived in the Gulf for over hundreds of years, and one of the major things that were affected by the spill was their breeding. Around this time every year the female turtles head shore to lay their eggs. Since the oilrig exploded, there is a lot of oil in the ocean where the turtles are swimming, there is oil on the beaches where the turtles are laying the eggs, and there is oil where the new hatchlings are going to be swimming. This is not good for the turtles because the oil is going to cause harm and death in most of these newborn sea turtles. Another reason the sea turtles were affected was that their habitats were ruined. Five out of the seven species of sea turtles live in the Gulf of Mexico. The Gulf is home to a lot of sea life, including the turtles. Since the Gulf is covered in oil, the habitat that these turtles are living in, are not fit to live in. So now the turtles are confused and have nowhere to live. They need to relocate or they are going to die. The oil spill affected a lot of...
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...1. Brief history of the brand The Founder of Hoi Tin Tong, Mr. Ng Yiu Ming, in his youth years started off a business "Hoi Tin Ye Mei" selling turtles and wild animals for medicinal purposes and studied Chinese Traditional Medicine and Herbs. Through years of experience he has mastered the knowledge of applying different turtles and herbs to Chinese traditional medicine. Mr. Ng's mother weighed less than 100 pounds during sickness, but after taking Hoi Tin Tong Herbal Jelly consecutively for quite a period of time, her health has improved dramatically and she can eat normally with her weight getting back to about 140 to 150 pounds. Everyone wanted to try this Herbal Turtle Jelly for other health reasons. Since then Mr. Ng opened his first store called, "Hoi Tin Tong" in 1990 on Bowring Street in Jordan to facilitate the large growing demand of this Herbal Turtle Jelly. Because Mr. Ng uses only the finest quality or raw ingredients in his Turtle Jelly, the price is HK$50 a bowl. Customers at first hesitated because of the price; however, after consuming the Turtle Jelly, they felt its worthiness and the benefits to their health. They gain confidence of the turtle jelly and returned for more with their friends. As the demand of the Turtle Jelly grew in Hong Kong, Mr. Ng open a chain of retail stores in Hong Kong, Kowloon, New Territories, Macau and Mainland China. The market has then expanded to Taiwan and North America as well. Mr. Ng is still engaged in research...
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