Turtles

The loggerhead turtles are highly nomadic marine turtles and their habitats are widely distributed throughout their lives. They undertake long migrations between their nesting sites and foraging grounds. Loggerhead Sea Turtle Habitat Loggerhead turtles are found in tropical, temperate and subtropical coastal waters around the world. They do not, however,…

The leatherback sea turtles are highly migratory species. They tend to migrate longest distances among all marine turtles. They are known to swim around 3,700 miles each way from the foraging ground to the breeding site. Leatherback Sea Turtle Habitat Leatherbacks are essentially pelagic turtles but they also frequent coastal…

Leatherback sea turtles are voracious creatures and they tend to eat twice as much as their own weight. They have scissor-like jaws but feed mainly on soft-bodied animals like tunicates, siphonophores, cephalopods and salps. However, they usually feed almost exclusively on jellyfish which is strange because the jellyfish are made…

For nesting, a female leatherback swims ashore. After digging a hole on a sandy beach, she deposits around 100 to 120 eggs. In every nest, there are about 80 fertilized and 30 unfertilized eggs. Each egg measures about the size of a billiard ball. The eggs are incubated for about…

Tigers do not live in Africa they never had and they probably never will! Lately however, conservationists are making deliberate attempts to introduce tigers in Africa. The tiger’s evolution began in the northern Asia but scientists believe that tigers could have possibly arrived in Alaska over the last 100,000 years.…

The loggerhead turtles have powerful jaws enabling them to crush even the hard-shelled prey like sea urchins and whelks. They are mostly carnivores but they eat vegetation as well. Generally, the diet of the adult loggerheads consists of fish, jellyfish, sea anemones, sea cucumbers, sea stars, sea pens, bristle worms,…

Every year, the green turtles are harvested in hundreds or thousands for human consumption and trade around the world. The eggs of these turtles are usually harvested on sandy beaches, the nesting sites of the sea turtles. However, one of the serious threats which may endanger the survival of these…

Green Sea Turtle Habitat Green turtles use three different kinds of habitats. They tend to migrate hundreds of kilometers between their feeding sites and nesting grounds. These turtles use sandy beaches for nesting while the nest is dug by means of digging pit with their flippers. They usually feed on…