Sea turtles have some sort of magnetism in their head that allows them to a line with the earth's magnetic field. They use geo magnetic imprinting to return to their exact birth aces to nest later in life. So once they're supposedly its, once they start crawling down the beach, they get that imprinting in their head. Once they reach sexual maturity, go back tothat area. Is that reproductively good or bad? I mean, if they're all returning to the same spot, is it possible that they might be related or no, oot y.
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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