The green turtle is one of the largest of the sea turtle species and the only species that are herbivores, they mostly eat seagrasses, algae and mangroves but they also eat fish and their eggs, jellyfish, sponges and various shellfish. They are named the green turtle because of the colour of their cartilage and fat not the colour of their shell, their shell has dark grey and yellow colouring. Apart from the females the come to the shore to lay eggs, sea turtles spend most of their lives underwater
you think Green Sea turtles are supposed to get to their nest if they can't crawl over the trash? Green Sea Turtles have been around longer than some dinosaurs. Most people don't think about this when they decide to leave the beach in a worse way then they found it. Humans do many harmful activities such as poaching eggs, constructing homes, and developing coastal areas. If humans don't start doing something about their harmful activities they could make the over 100 million year turtle go extinct
Green sea turtles are an endangered species with a drastically reduced population sizes of 3 to 4 feet. A typical green sea turtle grows to a maximum size of about 4 feet and weight about 440 pounds. They have a heart-shaped shell, small head, and single-clawed flippers. Sea turtles range can be olive-green, yellow, greenish-brown, reddish-brown, or black in color. As for the hatchlings, they generally have a black carapace, white plastron, and white margins on the shell and limbs. The adult carapaces
Magnificent Green Sea Turtles Did you know that the green sea turtles are endangered? I choose them for my research paper because I feel that they are very interesting. I researched their habitat, food, reproduction, conservation activities. After I researched all of that, I feel that I needed more information, so I found their physical description, man’s impact on this animal, and the numbers left. As I write this paper I will tell you about the interesting facts that I found about the green sea turtle
Green Sea turtles are also called Pacific Green turtles and Black Sea Turtles. Its scientific name is Chelonia mydas. It belongs to the family ‘Cheloniidae’ and genus ‘Chelonia’. This species is found in the seas of tropical and subtropical areas. It has two diverse populations in Atlantic Ocean and Pacific Ocean. Green sea turtles have flattened bodies which are covered by big carapace. They have two large flippers. Their colors are light but the species that are living in the eastern Pacific
Elizabeth Bishop is an American poet and short story writer from the 1900s. During her lifetime she became a well respected woman who intertwined her poems with ambiguous meanings that have drawn the attention of many critics for interpretation. . Her extraordinary ability to reflect common topics in her poem creates a thought provoking atmosphere which enables her to convey lucid, complex ideas through her poetry. Bishop’s ability captures the fascination of many critics, thus leading to an in depth
At the bottom of Naple Island Gazette’s front page, I saw the headline: Manatee Habitat Threatened by Local Development. The article explained that a new housing development was planned for an area along the Okee River. Many of the properties would have docks in the river so owners could park their boats and have easy access out into the bay. I knew that the Okee River was the best place locally to spot manatees. They loved floating in the warm water and munching the thick sea grasses that cover
Turtles have undergone an interesting history as they evolved from their Eunotosaurus ancestors. Turtles are very good at protecting themselves from predators. Their ancestors go back to as far as 220 million years ago. The turtles hard shell preserve very well which makes their remains very hard to distinguish. I hope you enjoy my turtle evolution research essay. Turtles are reptiles of the order testudines. They have a bony or cartilage hard shell that is used as a shield for protection against
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Mammalia Order: Rodentia Family: Bathyergidae Genus: Heterocephalus The Heterocephalus glaber, more commonly known as the Naked Mole-rat, is a burrowing mammal with unique features suited to an underground environment. Naked Mole-rats are the only mammalian thermoconformer, which means they don’t have the ability to thermally regulate their own body temperature. The naked-mole rat is neither a mole, nor a rat, but is a rodent closely related to Guinea
The great turtle was not just some ordinary turtle he had something very special about him. The great turtle was named Pete. Pete was just an ordinary turtle until one day his life changed forever. Pete being himself was walking in the grass getting his normal exercise. He also like feeling the warm sun on his shell. Until one day a strange person picked him up and put him in a box. The box was then taken and put in a van and then the van took off. When riding in the van Pete got very scared and
sea. In fact, they were the largest turtles ever, according to paleontologists. A 12 foot long turtle, and yet they were very gentle. They were a fascinating prehistoric reptile that swam around Earth in the late Cretaceous period with fossils that are found throughout some of the states in the U.S. The archelon was a powerful, but a majestic creature from its time. They have a shell that you wouldn’t see on a regular turtle you find in your backyards. Most turtles you see now have hard shells that
The Atlantic Horseshoe Crab is an amazing a unique animal. Despite it 's name it not really a crab. It is actualy more colsly related to spiders, ticks and scorpians. It is in the Animalia kingdom and is in the Arthropoda phylum. It 's most common name is the Horseshoe Crab but it 's scientific name is Limulus polyphemus. The Horseshoe Crab is not just found in Cape Cod, it is also found along the northern Atlantic coast and up the Gulf of Mexico. The horseshoe crab looks very round, it also has
life. Many people in the world struggle with mental illnesses such as OCD and anxiety. John Green happens to be one of those people, as well as many of the characters he writes about in his novels. An example of one of these characters is Aza from his book, Turtles All the Way Down. She suffers from anxiety and OCD, which causes her daily tasks to become more difficult than they should be. The way John Green writes about his characters is extremely personal because he has gone through all these experiences
‘Red Peter’s Little Lady’ by Ceridwen Dovey and ‘A Report to an Academy’, by Franz Kafka, are literary works that use a variety of techniques to represent the concepts and themes of the ‘Animals, Monsters and Machines’. Over the years, animals have climbed their way into our literature and because of authors’ mastery, readers are able to think about and understand, philosophical concepts and social issues without the offense that is often expressed by audiences when writing about humans. ‘Red Peter’s
Zoos are Internment Camps Many cruel things happen in zoos. An article from CBS News states that earlier this year in the UK, three Timber Wolves were shot dead by zookeepers because they escaped the zoo. The zookeepers could’ve figured out a safe way to spare those wolves. Zoos are internment camps for animals and need to be shut down. Zoos treat animals poorly, care more about profit, and rob them from having normal lives. First, zoos treat their animals very poorly and are cruel to them. For
The Mediterranean Loggerhead Sea Turtles tend to nest in the eastern side of the the sea on the coasts of Greece, Cyprus, Israel, Turkey, and parts of northeast Libya and Egypt (Zbinden, Aebischer, Margaritoulis, Arlettaz, 2007). The female adult Loggerheads lay eggs on the beach (terrestrial ecosystem), preferably with coarse sand and a steep incline. The beaches tend to be wide with low dunes in the rear and flat sandy shorelines. However, this is a generalization. Detailed characteristics of the
was a very large oval shaped animal. It was a enormous snapping turtle; by far the largest I had ever seen in person. The place that we were fishing was called “The Turtle Log”. The reason for that name is that there is a fallen tree in the lake that all kinds of turtles hang out on. My brother and I had come up with the name. It is a joke that my grandpa and I had made, that every time we fish at that spot, one of us has to hit a turtle with their hook. We thought it would bring good luck to our fishing
Have you ever wonder how turtles got their shells? It’s questions that have been roaming around in my mind for years. But guess what we finally were able to figure out how turtles got their shell. So imagine this: Evolution Lab just finished on, and you are walking down Lower Lake, and you see your friend Jorge but something is different with Jorge has a new friend visiting him a cute little turtle named Maxine. Maxine is new to the neighborhood and will be joining the Mount Holyoke Campus this
not a hassle. Since I only have a little time, my consideration is efficiency. Let's compare the turtles and the fish! Turtles are animals that can live in 2 realms, water and land. Although on land but it also needs water. The size of the turtle's body can be as small as a baby's fist up to 4m in diameter. That’s why the turtle needs a fairly large area if we keep it from small to large. Long turtle life time, up to hundreds of years can be a satisfaction and pride for the owner. Seeing the growing
Why can’t I just be a normal turtle and not have to worry about anything? Ya I wish but i have to worry about being endangered, It stinks. Plz help me! I mostly live in the sea. When we are active we come to the surface to breathe, when we are under water for several hours. They prefer deeper water or shallow water that directly relates to their diet. The adults turtles eat plants so their herbivores. All the other turtles eat meat so their carnivores, or their omnivores that eat plants and meat