Once they're laying their eggs, they tend to go into a little bit of a trance. So often we'll sneak up behind them, and then sort of lift it up just a little bit so that we can see how many eggs she's laying. And once she lays it and cause covers it up, she's, she's outy right yet, she's done. Then she'll wat off shore for about two weeks, and then she'll come back up and lay another nest. How long are they cooking in that nest? Depends on the temper r so if the temperature's warmer, then they'll cook faster than normal.
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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