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How do turtles react to snorkellers?
Check the answer in the following video and poster about to be presented in the International Sea Turtle Symposium 2015:
Link to the poster:
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Link to the video:
The Least Bittern (Ixobrychus exilis):
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Least_Bittern
I'm not 100% sure what this Least Bittern has caught but from what I could tell, it appeared to be a very small turtle: Photograph taken at the Green Cay Wetlands near Boynton Beach, Florida: April 21, 2010
This guy swam ashore at Poipu Beach long enough for me to snap a few pictures before he took off for the sea again.
This Green male turtle was totally absorbed eating small pieces of what looke like sea grass, and was indifferent to our presence.
In one Saturday morning at Honaunau, I saw a shark, two turtles and a big pod of dolphins. I'm truly fortunate to be able to dive with these big animals.
For the Eurobricks Turtle Contest.
Kinda combining Doctor Who's space whale, Discworld's Great A'Tuin, and generic sci-fi space habitats...
Sea Turtle / Meeresschildkröte
Riviera Maya / Akumal Bay / Quintana Roo / Mexico
Photographed with a Canon PowerShot A 710 IS in Waterproof Case WP-DC 6
Freilebende Meeresschildkröten zu sehen , war für mich ein großes Erlebnis - ein großer Traum ging damit in Erfüllung !
To see free-living sea turtles, was a great experience for me - a big dream came true !
Why did the turtle cross the road? Damned if I know but it sure did take him a long time. I blocked the side of the road until he crossed and no I wasn't going to pick him up and move him. Looked like a snapping turtle to me.
Tiger and Turtle – Magic Mountain ist eine einer Achterbahn nachempfundene Landmarke auf der Heinrich-Hildebrand-Höhe im Angerpark in Duisburg-Angerhausen.
This guy was just hanging out on the trail. He seemed content to peek at me like that and never went all the way into his shell. After I left, he wandered off into the trees, presumably to do turtle things.
Found this Painted Turtle after sunset. Living in Montana for 43 years, I've never run across one in the egg-laying process, but that's what she was either, A.) about to do, or, B.) had already done. The light was very poor and I didn't want to bother her, (though I have to say, she didn't move a muscle while I was there. I've heard that they may go into a kind of trance while they're doing this, and she sure seemed to be under some kind of spell.) I took a few shots, wished her and her offspring well, and left. Make the photo big and look at the muddy hole she'd prepared for the eggs. Her posterior hovers over it. It was far from roads and people and on land protected by the Ninepipe preserve, so I think her babies will have as fair a chance as they could have anywhere. Water wasn't too far off .. maybe 100 yards.
TAXONOMY
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Testudines
Suborder: Cryptodira
Family: Cheloniidae
Genus/Species: Chelonia mydas
GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS: Large, weighty sea turtle with a wide, smooth carapace, or shell. It is named not for the color of its shell, which is normally brown or olive depending on its habitat, but for the greenish color of its skin.
Length: Up to 5 ft (1.5 m)
Weight: Up to 700 lbs (317.5 kg)
DISTRIBUTION/HABITAT: Pacific, Above photo taken at Poipu beach Kauai but they are found trough out the entire Hawaiian archipelago.
Note: The Atlantic green turtle, is found off the shores of Europe and North America,
DIET: Herbivore, Seagrass and Algae. Juvenile green turtles, however, will also eat invertebrates like crabs, jellyfish, and sponges.
REPRODUCTION: Mature 25 at years.Green turtles, undertake lengthy migrations from feeding sites to nesting grounds, normally on sandy beaches. Nesting grounds are scattered throughout the entire Pacific region, including Mexico, the Hawaiian Islands, the South Pacific, the northern coast of Australia, and Southeast Asia. Mating occurs every two to four years and normally takes place in shallow waters close to the shore. To nest, females leave the sea and choose an area, on the same beach used by their mothers, to lay their eggs. They dig a pit in the sand with their flippers, fill it with a clutch of 100 to 200 eggs, cover the pit and return to the sea, leaving the eggs to hatch after about two months.
Lifespan: Over 80 years in the wild
PREDATORS: Tiger Sharks. Juveniles returning to the sea are voraciously predated upon by crabs and sea gulls,
CONSERVATION: IUCN Endangered
Threatened by humans who kill them for their meat and eggs. Numbers are also reduced by boat propeller accidents, fishnet-caused drowning, and the destruction of their nesting grounds by human encroachment.
REMARKS: Like other sea turtles, the green turtle cannot pull its head into its shell.
Can swim at up to 35 mph and remain underwater up to 2 hours.
It is one of the few marine turtles known to leave the water other than at nesting times. C. mydas may be seen basking on sandy beaches warming themselves.
References
National Geographic
animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/reptiles/green-tur...
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A basking Florida softshell turtle warily eyes the photographer on the press mound behind the NASA News Center at Kennedy Space Center.
Kennedy shares a boundary with the Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge. The Refuge encompasses 140,000 acres that are a habitat for more than 331 species of birds, 31 mammals, 117 fishes, and 65 amphibians and reptiles. The marshes and open water of the refuge provide wintering areas for 23 species of migratory waterfowl, as well as a year-round home for great blue herons, great egrets, wood storks, cormorants, brown pelicans and other species of marsh and shore birds, as well as a variety of insects.
Photo credit: NASA/Bill White
Tunnels Beach. Another view of the turtle; he/she is very comfortable with people; swam right next to me
Now is the time to watch for turtles! If you see one crossing the road, stop and help it along if it's safe to do so. Walking behind a turtle can encourage it to move along and avoid getting hit by a car. This one was enjoy the sun on a closed road at Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge.
Photo by Courtney Celley/USFWS.
Georgia Aquarium. This photo is featured as Popular Photography's website 'Photo of the Day' for March 14, 2016.
We never get to shoot at Turtles in our region. I was happy to get this one in Invermere, BC.
Just for fun, I added a very close up shot of part of a different species in the comment box below.
If you feel like playing, try to guess what animal that part belongs to. The fact that the main shot is a reptile might be misleading.
I'll post the whole thing in a couple of days.
Captain Don of the Seafire has a great stop to visit the turles on his Molokini tour. As I post turtles, you will see the colors change... it all depends on the light and the depth I guess. For this reason I don't think I'll post them all at once :)
Have a great weekend!!
Kihei, Maui, Hawaii
May 2012
I could not believe my luck as I spotted this little turtle in the muck.....what a wiggler! My first Spotted Turtle! As soon as I put (him/her?) down ....gone! Buried in the mud.....