What is the Loggerhead sea turtle?

The turtle Loggerhead or Caretta Caretta is an endangered species that lives in waters around the world. These turtles spend almost their entire life in the water, adults come as shore to lay eggs. They are particularly remarkable because of their migration habits, as they are known to travel on the ocean extremely long distances.

Since the male sea turtle, which reaches about 36 inches (92 centimeters), these turtles are the largest hard turtles. It usually weighs about £ 250 (113 kilograms), but even larger turtles were observed. Their shells are usually red or brown, with a yellow lower shell and are characteristic because they have a slightly heart -shaped. Their lifespan is definitely not known, but it is estimated that they have lived for almost 50 years.

These turtles can be found in the oceans around the world, especially in mild and tropical waters, and you are particularly cold water. Turtles Loggerhead are known for their tendency to travel very long distantSTI and can even swim all over the oceans. The Loggerheads do not have a particularly preferred environment in which they live. They can be found in open waters as well as closer to the coast.

The loggerhead sea turtle diet includes crustaceans, crabs, fish and jellyfish. Loggerheads have strong jaws that then allow to break through the shells and consume a number of other sea lives that are protected by hard exteriors. They can also eat shells, shells, molluscs and Wheelks.

Its practices for laying eggs are a distinctive feature of the Loggerhead sea turtle. Females will lay eggs every few years and swim ashore to do so, crawling along the sand until they are safe distance from surfing. Here they will dig a hole for the nest and lay about 100 EGGS. It is not uncommon for these turtles to return to the same beach where they hatched to lay their own eggs even when it requires traveling thousands of poundsof the darkens. This time the laying of eggs and a trip from Nest to the shore, which subsoil Hatchlings, is the only time to spend time on the ground.

When the eggs hatch, the turtles immediately get into the ocean surfing, transporting them to ocean currents because they are too small to swim in themselves. Ideally, these currents store them in the area protected by seaweed, where they can be protected and separated from predators and where there are enough food for them to grow and continue to swim themselves.