Turtles cannot barf because they have the papilla in their throat. Once it goes in, those papilla keep stuff from coming back up. Around here in hawaii, we're having an increased number of turtles caught in recreationa fishing line. If you catch turtle, just reel it in, cut the line as close to the hook as possible. Usually th the hook will rust out. It will like a bad lip piercing yes. Oh god. To the first question, are sea turtles social? They generally are independent, living on their own. Some of them do aggregate together, and some them just kind of hang out by themselves. I would assume its warm temperature. For logger
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?
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