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From the Vault: Sea Turtles with Christine Figgener

Stuff To Blow Your Mind

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What's the Arabata?

Aribada is from the spanish word for arrival, and describes a synchronized mass nesting. The olive ritley and the camsritley do nest in those synchronised mass nestings which usually happen about once a month. It's all happening in one night, it's usually over the course of four to seven days. If you forget your back pack somewhere, there's a good chance that one of the females just gets stuck with her flipper and just like drags it down into the water. And itss they crawl over each other. They throw sand in your face when you're trying to do something. So if you ever get a chance to see one, definitely do

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