Sailors Without Sails
Hello everyone! Hope you all doing well.. Here I'm with a another post about sea turtle's migration.
As we all know, sea turtle's birth happened at the sandy beaches, although they spend more time in the ocean. Where are they going after their birth? After baby turtles emerge from the sand, they crawl towards the ocean and join with the ocean.
Their first few years are still a mystery and that unknown stage is called as the "Lost years". They reappear after they have grown up to much larger juveniles.
They have different sites for different purposes; for feeding, for mating, and for nesting. For nesting, they migrate towards the beach where they emerged as babies. After laying eggs, they head back to their usual feeding sites. For these things, they have to migrate thousands of miles through the ocean. Modern studies had been discovering their movement patterns using "Satellite telemetry". In here, a small radio transmitter is settled on the turtle's shell and it gives a signal when they come up to breath. This is a migration map which make by using the satellite telemetry technology.
So... How they find the exact place for nesting, mating and feeding in this endless ocean without any clues??
Actually, they use the Earth's magnetic field and water chemistry to identify the pathway and exact places.
Once I heard a professor said that the first few hours (after birth) of sea turtle's life is very important in detecting the magnetic field and they start to detect it just after they emerge from the sand. Also they learn many things and gain many things in the time period of their crawling which necessary to their survival.
Raising up them in a tank and releasing them after become young can cause bad effects on them. They can lost their way to home because of the poor magnetic field detecting and they can't survive without their home.
It would be better, if we can conserve them by protecting their nesting sites and eggs, and expose them to natural process without any disturbances. Finally, I want to say, let's make a better world for everyone.
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Now in Sri Lanka these natural nesting grounds are really in danger with the current situation of X-press pearl ship which released billions of plastic nurdles to the ocean. Hope we could protect those places for their secure future.
We should akkaa ❤
Que hermoso post, cuidar de nuestra naturaleza debe ser tarea y responsabilidad de todos.