Loggerheads Nest In Gnaraloo

Baby red-eared slider turtles are brightly colored. With bold patterns on their yellowish under shells. Which serve as a warning to predators. the bright colors of skunks and other animals. They signal that the animals will spray nasty chemicals. In contrast, the turtle's colors warn largemouth bass. that the baby turtle will actively defend itself. When a bass gulps down a turtle, the feisty baby laws and bites. Forcing the bass to spit it out. To avoid a similar painful experience. The bass will avoid other baby red-eared slider turtles. The turtle loses its bright colors as it grows too big. For a Bass's afternoon

Now, as most may know sea turtles are both marine and land animals depending on what stage of life they are in. Which means that they need to be able to go on land during certain stages of their lives. One of the main reasons why a sea turtle will go on to land is to lay their eggs. Within the last few years this has become harder and harder for the already endangered species. It

The Hawaiian Duck is blessed with one of the best habitats in the world. It resides in the beautiful islands and the epitome of all beautiful islands known as Hawaii. They are mostly found in lowland wetlands, river valleys, and mountain streams. This works to this bird’s advantages. They mostly try to stay away from the more urban parts of Hawaii and stick to their usual wetland setting. However, there not much of these habitats around on the virtually miniature island of Hawaii, which makes this bird’s effort of trying to stick around, just that much harder. Its endangerment has a large part to do with the fact that you cannot find all of these elements in many places on the island of Hawaii. The Hawaiian duck’s habitat is a huge part of what this bird is and how it functions through its

This project will help me to make connections with the world because I will be working with one of the most-well known organization on Maui. I will learn more about turtles and their habitats. This will challenge me because I will need to dedicate my time during the week. This means I need to organize my time and plans. I have a list of five questions that will be answered to finish my project. These questions are: How do turtles hatch their eggs and how it looks like? What can we do to help turtles? What does turtles do in their daily life? How many turtles still remain in Hawaii? How much does turtles affect our environment?

The Red-bellied Cooter is being threatened by both man-made and natural causes. Do to economic growth, areas that used to be a good habitat for these turtles are now being turned into new, buildings like apartments, houses, and stores. In areas where the turtles can live, they are threatened before they have even hatched from their eggs by other predators like raccoons, skunks, or even snapping turtles. Almost all of the eggs in a nest are harmed before they have a chance to hatch. So while humans taking up land takes the Red-bellied Cooters’ homes, their predators take their lives.

The magnificent leatherback sea turtle is a precious species that exists in the world today. It has endured and evolved through the years, and it would be terrible if humans put an end to their amazing existence. By learning more and taking an active role in supporting conservation programs, hopefully the leatherback population can grow and

Roanoke Logperch are all very similar in size and color . Most of these fish at the bottom are a cream color that fades to a green-yellow color as you go up , they also have dark markings on their bottom half . Since all of these fish look very similar it is hard to tell the genders apart from one another . Therefore there is one distinctive way to tell and that is that the males have a more vivid orange ring around their first dorsal fin .The top jaw is longer than the bottom so that the fish has more strength to push rocks and sand over . They also can get up to 16.5 centimeters but they usually stay in between 5-7 centimeters . These fish also have bilateral symmetry as in one side is similar to the opposite side .

The threatened bog turtle is a very small turtle, averaging 3.1 to 4.5 inches in length (USFWS 2015z) and it is characterized by a light brown to ebony shell and bright yellow, orange, or red blotches on each side of the head (USFWS 2001). The FWS proposed a final rule in 1997 to list the northern population of the bog turtle as threatened and southern population as threatened due to similarity of appearance, under provisions of the Endangered Species Act of 1973 (62 FR 59605 59623, November 4, 1997). Regionally the northern population of the bog turtle is known to occur in localized distributions from western Massachusetts and Connecticut southward to Maryland, and the southern population is known to occur from Virginia southward to Georgia (USFWS 2001). In New York it is known to occur in 15 counties in the southeastern region of the state or along the south coast of Lake Ontario (USFWS

Spawning occurs once a year in the spring, mid-April through early June in this region, with ideal water temperature of 14.5-24°C. Females prefer a more gravelly substrate when laying eggs, which is the type of habitat they already reside in. If they can’t find this substrate, they will migrate to the right location. Males excavate bowl-shaped pits in the gravel close to riffles and guard them until a female arrives. Females typically choose bigger males if they can. Once spawning is successful, they both leave; no care by either parent is given to the eggs. A maximum of 4,800 eggs are laid and appear bright yellow when fertilized. The eggs hatch in about 3 days, and the young grow very fast. They are quite large by the end of one year, but continue to grow. Central Stonerollers typically live 4-6 years at most (Etnier, 140 and

The great hammerheads migrate seasonally and are often seen in mass summer migrations moving poleward seeking cooler water. They move back towards the equator over the winter months. During the day they are often found near the shore in schools of up to one hundred. At night they hunt further offshore, adults occur alone, in pairs or in small schools while young hammerheads occur in larger schools. Great hammerheads are most common at seamounts, especially near the Galapagos, Malpelo, Cocos and Revillagigedo Islands and within the Gulf of California.

Snakeheads are capable of spreading to many different areas and habitats. They do this by swimming underwater into other waterways. Snakeheads also have the ability to breathe out of water, so they can travel short distances on land to get to different areas. Even though snakeheads only breed when temperatures are warm, their eggs only take 1 to 2 days to hatch; causing quicker births of individuals.

Horseshoe crabs are an important part of the wetland ecosystem, however they are going extinct. Due to harvesting, pollution, and other animals consuming their offspring their numbers are dwindling. They play an important part in the ecosystem and need to be protected so they do not become extinct. The Delaware bay has decided to protect them for their future uses in medicine and to keep them as an important role in the ecosystem.

The Graptemys caglei, also known as the Cagle’s Map Turtle, is an endangered turtle species found in San Antonio, Texas and along the Guadalupe River. It identifies easily by the pattern on its shell which resembles an aerial view topography, as well as its spiked shell edges, which are not as sharp as other map turtles of the same genus. Although the Cagle’s Map Turtle has natural predators pose a threat to the individual turtles’ lives, the predators are not a greater threat than habitat disturbances created by humans. Unfortunately, this species suffered a significant drop in population since the mid-1970 through changes in its habitat disallow support of a larger population of the turtles(van Dijk, P. P., 2011).

Over one hundred million years of existence, capable of traveling through the oceans of the world. One creature so magnificent that it is able to live up to 70 years old and weigh between 200 to 500 pounds. This creature is the majestic Hawaiian green sea turtle. Although they are found throughout the world, Hawaiian green sea turtles are distinctly different from other green sea turtles (NOAA Fisheries par. 4). They travel to the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands to nest and then travel to the main Hawaiian Islands to feed. Such a unique creature is very important to the Hawaiian Islands. Hawaiian green sea turtles play an important role in the ecosystem, the economy, the culture, and the

Sea turtle hatchlings are now having trouble finding their way to the sea because of all the lights from buildings that are built on the coast. They get disoriented when they are born and will wander in the wrong way away from the sea. This leads them to predators that live inland or will even cause the turtle to become dehydrated and die. Humans are also building coastal armoring that is blocking female turtles from reaching a suitable nesting habitat. This is a severe problem in Florida where they have many coastal rock elevations and sand bags. Where all this beach development is occurring thousands of sea turtles are trying to nest. Beach dredging is also having a direct effect on sea turtle's trying to nest. If the sand is too impacted or is drastically different from native beach sediment, the mother will have trouble creating the