AE 1153 - Pete's 2c: Strewth! My Daughter Spat the Dummy!
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Heron Island - The Turtle Nests
The temperature of the beach determines the gender, the sex of the turtles in the nest. When the temperature gets past 32 degrees, i think they all become male. And if it's below 30 degrees, they're all female. It's kind of cools like crocodiles, where, i think, i think crocodiles as the same thing,. The turtle nests would explode during the night and hundreds of them were running into the water. They didn't realize that it was still morning, or it had just become day time.
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