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Swimming Sea Turtle!

At Fort Fisher Aquarium, I viewed many different aquatic animals. There was one thing that caught my eye; it was the sea turtle. This sea turtle was in a large tank with many other large fishes. The sea turtle was swimming around and playing in the air bubbles. I was on a lab field trip and we were supposed to document the locomotion types of the animals. The sea turtle uses its flippers to lift itself through the water column. As I was in the aquarium I thought about the niche of this sea turtle and a niche of a sea turtle in the wild. I knew it had to be different. Animals in captivity are not exposed to certain dangers or environmental stress that animals would encounter in the wild.

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Uploaded on February 22, 2018
Taken on February 7, 2018