LEATHER-BACK SEA TURTLES IN OUR OCEAN ARE SUFFERING.

 

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Today I am going to tell you a little more about leather back turtle’s. They are very interesting animals and they are the biggest of all turtles.

Their backs are made up of connective tissue.

They are different from other turtles as they are covered by an oily skin on their backs.

Scientist believes that the first turtle like animal lived over 260 million years ago.

Unlike turtles today they had teeth, and they were a species called "odontochelys" because of the teeth.

Leather back turtles are world travelers and it means that they go all over the ocean.

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Because of the oil in their bodies they can go into any water, cold or not that cold as they can keep their temperature the way they need to.  

This allows them to move around freely in the ocean wherever they can find the best food.

They eat any soft bodied animals in the sea like jellyfish.

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They are very important to sea life as they may prevent some of the species to become too many and if they die out we will have a problem.

They are in danger of dying out because of people not caring where they throw their rubbish and dirtying the sea.

Because they eat soft bodied food they may mistake plastic bags as food, and that is why they are dying out.

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 This is a plastic bag in the sea.

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We really have to try and keep our beaches clean so that there will not be animals suffering because we do not know how to use a dustbin.

People who drive boats on the sea should also not throw waste over the side as these animals will really try and eat it.

It is our responsibility to look after the nature that we were given and it is such a privilege that we should not abuse it.

Nature is one of the places where we all find peace and please look after the animals.

Fortunately they have the ability to dive very deep just like whales and sharks.

This might just prevent them from being caught up in nets of fisherman and eating things they are not supposed to.

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It will be so sad if we lose another animal that children might not ever see.

It appears as if the Atlantic Ocean has more of these turtles than the Pacific Ocean, the reason we do not know at all.

It is also very important to know that they are the 4th biggest reptile-they are the only turtles who do not have a hard shell as I told you before.

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They grow up to 7 feet long and weigh up to 2000 pounds.

They only lay their eggs when they are 8 years old until they are 15 years old.

The female go onto the beach and she lies between 80 eggs that are fertilized the rest about 30 of them are not.

They don’t always go to the same beach as they are travelers and may put their eggs on another beach the next time they mate.

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Male turtles spend their whole life under water but the females come out to lay their eggs.

These leather-back turtles can go as far 1000 feet deep into the ocean.

I hope you found this interesting as some children have not seen them before.

Have a lovely day from me here at the Wild Coast.

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