This was the first turtle that they have resited at that location. And she came back three years after the first time they saw her. She obviously likes to graze in fiji and get fat, and then comes back to rose atul to lay her eggs. What a life. Oi, wonder how old' want to go to feed you? I don't know. That turtle's got to be really old. The largeness of her hind flippers digging her nest. It's incredible how they use their flippers like hands. So i thought their back flippers would be like canoe oars and just kind of like, stiffly flinging sand around. But helmo
Hope you dug tortoises because we’re back, shellin’ out the good stuff, with this week’s encore of sea turtles, so get ready to become wildly obsessed with them. Cheloniologist Dr. Camryn Allen met up with Alie on a tropical island (ok, in a hotel room on a tropical island) to chat about flipper slappings, turtle rodeos, nesting BBs, current surfing, endangered statuses, field work, sleeping under water, world records, boopable noses, male:female ratios, mind-boggling navigation, what you can do to help them, and the many mysteries that still remain. Take a deep dive into the world of seartles. Or is it surtles?
Follow Dr. Camryn Allen on Twitter
This week's donation was made to Hawaii Marine Animal Response
More episode sources and links
Sponsors of Ologies
Become a patron of Ologies for as little as a buck a month
OlogiesMerch.com has hats, shirts, masks, totes!
Follow @Ologies on Twitter and Instagram
Follow @AlieWard on Twitter and Instagram
Sound editing by Steven Ray Morris and Jarrett Sleeper of MindJam Media
Theme song by Nick Thorburn