What is Olive Ridley?

Olive Ridley or Lepidochelys Olivacea is the smallest sea turtle in the world. With maturity, they diameter 27.5 inches (70 centimeters) long and usually weigh less than £ 100 (45 kilograms). It is the most abundant sea turtle, which inhabits tropical location in Indian, Pacific and Southern Atlantic. Olive Ridley has an olive carapace or upper shell. It was named after H.N. Ridley, a Malyassan botany and a scholar that was well known at the turn of the 20th century. Their diet also includes crabs, shrimp, snails, fish and fish eggs. If their usual food sources are not available, they will eat eyelashes. During the arcribada, hundreds or thousands of turtles are collected at sea. At the synchronized time, they were crawling on the ground to lay eggs.

ARRIBADA is unique for Olive Ridley turtles and no one knows what they will move. Scientists have suggested several theories to explain it. Some believe that arcribada can be triggered by pheromones issued by women and others assume they are ZODPVerified coastal winds. Lunar cycles were also designed as a possible cause.

Adult women put eggs once or twice a year. Their couplings contain an average of 110 eggs. These eggs have an incubation period of approximately 52 to 58 days.

nests of eggs are vulnerable to a number of predators. Possums, raccoon, snakes, ghost crabs and wild dogs enjoy feasting on unharmed eggs. When hatchlings crawl over the beaches of their nests into the water, they become food for vultures, coyote, raccoons, crabs and snakes. Once it is in the water, the olive ridley becomes the prey of crocodiles, sharks and fish.

Olive Ridley was listed as an endangered species. People are considered their worst predator. Adult olive Ridleys are killed for their meat and skin. People also collect their eggs in too large numbers to keep the turtle population.

Olive Ridleys also become a random catch in large fishingThey suffer and suffer from mortal wounds as they collide with ships. Pollution, coastal development and erosion reduced their nesting sites and had an unfavorable impact on their food areas. Although in many countries there are sanctions against the collection of eggs and harvesting of adult olive ridley, global recovery challenges have caused them to largely ineffective.