Leatherback turtle Essays

Leather Back Turtle and its correlation with Human’s Food and Water Resourcing Activities. Species Description Weight: Adult: up to 2,000 pounds (900 kg) Hatchling: 1.5-2 ounces (40-50 g) Length: Adult: 6.5 feet (2 m) Hatchling: 2-3 inches (50-75 cm) Appearance: primarily black shell with pinkish-white coloring on their belly Lifespan: unknown Diet: soft-bodied animals, such as jellyfish and scalps, and pyro0somes Behavior: females lay clutches of approximately 100 eggs several times during a nesting

reptiles on Earth, the Leatherback sea turtle Dermochelys coriacea. The average adult leatherback turtle can weigh up to a thousand pounds and measure from 4-8 feet in length! This great size allows them to tolerate cooler water temperatures than any other sea turtle. D. coriacea have the broadest distribution of all sea turtle species and they can be found throughout the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian Oceans. This large range is due to the migratory habits of the leatherback turtles, which are pelagic

A leatherback mother turtle lies motionless in the warm waters of the Indian ocean. She knows she has to go somewhere special like she'd done many times before. It was time to lay her eggs. This is the story of her journey to home. She swims though the vast ocean, navigating her way through dangerous waters. Up ahead, she sees something white reflecting the water. Curious by nature, she swims towards it. The fishing net brushes past her flipper, catching it. She struggles, and she pulls free of

Hawksbill turtles, although a vital resource to the ecosystem is dwelling in numbers; and is coming close to being extinct. Scientist have conducted in the Caribbean, Columbian, and Hawaiian islands and found a decrease of turtles showing up on shore (Meylan, 1999). Over the years a massive decrease in sea turtles has been affecting the seas due to the impact that humans have had. As of right now there are only five populations around the world that has female turtles nesting 1000s eggs every year

In a matter of seconds, the course of your life could be altered irreversibly forever. An individual’s defining moment can come at any point in your life in a variety of ways. As you continue to age, the number of these special experiences will accumulate. The moments that define you will pave the way for your future. It was in the summer of second grade when my mother decided to bring me out of the country to visit my father and spend two months in Dubai. At that time, it has almost been two years

The Principal Photography for Jaws began on May 2nd, 1974 and was released on June 20th, 1975. Universal Pictures distributed Jaws, making $470 million on a $3.5 million-dollar budget. This film is still the seventh highest grossing film of all-time. Jaws was directed by Steven Spielberg and edited by Verna Fields, winning 3 Academy Awards they were for editing, best original dramatic score, and another for best sound. Jaws had many production issues when it came to the building of the mechanical

When we read these two books, Walden and The Old Man and The Sea, we are able to realize the importance of dignity for Thoreau and Santiago, the main character of The Old Man and The Sea. I will consider what their dignity is and how they get dignity. Santiago and Thoreau seem to live for their dignity and they act to protect their dignity. Dignity becomes their core. Then, for Santiago, It seems that his dignity is being a fisherman. He has a pride as a fisherman but he is not proud of fishing

BASIC BIOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS Hawksbills, like other marine turtles, have a complicated life cycle and also their own characteristics. Each female leaves the sea, crawls up a sandy beach, and locates a nesting site above the level of the highest tide, typically within, or under, an area with plants. A female hawksbill turtle might make more than one attempt at digging a nest in the sand until she has successfully deposited a clutch of eggs in the nest which is at least 10 cm and as much as 90

Sea Turtle Extinction Sea turtles in the Gulf of Mexico are going extinct. Humans are diminishing and polluting the oceans where the sea turtles swim and live. Pollution such as fertilizers, plastic, and oil in the Gulf of Mexico are causing the sea turtles to become extinct. The ocean is gigantic; many people think that the ocean dilutes the chemicals from the fertilizers that are washed into them. People use fertilizers on their farms, for soil, and for crops. However

When Sea turtles are born, they are separated from their habitat, the ocean. Sea turtles have to crawl inch by inch, from the sandy coast to the shore line, in order to find their home. Life for a baby turtle is horrific, they are burdened with the hardship of traveling to their home, but also given the benefit of learning to survive. In the novel Brave New World, Huxley writes about Linda, a former member of the “new world” and her struggles in the world that was left behind. Leaving home is one

New York is a very popular city that everyone is familiar with when they heard of the names of Statue of Liberty, Time Square, and the Broadway, but this place to me is not only just an ordinary city; it is a home that I most feel safe and protected. It has a very special meaning in my life since it was the first home that my family and I resided when we came to America ten years ago. New York was filled with such wonderful memories such as when we tried to adapt to a new life, culture, new people

The determination to live comes from human nature. But the urge of giving up when we come across a difficult problem is also a part of human nature. There a few people in this world that have the characteristics of resilience. As author Kendra Cherry describes them, "People that are able to keep their cool have what psychologists call resilience, or an ability to cope with problems and setbacks" (Source A; Cherry, 1). An example of someone who has the characteristics of resilience is a bombardier

Since younger age, we are introduced to the very first kind of entertainment called ‘cartoon’. It is presented both as comic books and television shows. As a child, people tend to prefer an animated cartoon or animation. Animation cartoon in various types is widespread and famous all around the world as it does not only entertain people, but many of cartoons and animation cartoons give readers and audiences good moral for the living. It can be said that this kind of entertainment is a good source

When reading Bernard Nietschmann’s, “Subsistence and Market: When the turtle Collapses” explains the effects of long term hunting of the green turtle in the Caribbean waters. He describes in depth the effects on the communities social and mental state as well as showing the effects of the influences of outside fisheries on the Miskito’s. The site of all this takes place in Caribbean waters of the coast of Nicaragua. The coast is a very abundant place for the Miskito. It offered them a way to sustain

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

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. Most

ea otters are an essential keystone species in a marine ecosystem. They help to keep down herbivore populations to keep kelp happy and they keep sea urchin populations down. Sea otters are mammals that live in oceans often around california kelp forests. They live in chilly waters but have no blubber (Picky Eaters, p.1). Instead they have a thick coating of fur. This fur is thought to be the thickest fur of any mammal. The kelp forests that they live in range in temperatures of 42- 72 degrees Fahrenheit

Sea turtles have lived around for 110 million years. Unlike other turtles, They can not put tier limbs and head in their shell. Their shell is more flat than normal turtles so they can swim better. But because of careless fishing, habitat destruction and plastic pollution has made the turtles endangered or threatened. Every year, millions of sea turtles get injured and die from fishing hooks, line, lead sinkers because uneducated or careless anglers leave them behind. People don't realize the

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

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