All the other sea turtles have hard, shells that are like bone, but the carapace on the leatherback is a flexible and rubbery skin to your touch. The ridges on the carapace gives the turtle a hydrodynamic shell. Leatherbacks can dive 4,200 feet. They can hold their breath for 85 minutes. Female turtles come ashore and the only lay about 80 eggs at a time and cover up the nest so the eggs will grow. Then she swims off into the sunset leaving the eggs to fend for themselves. Did you know that the degrees that the eggs are determines whether the egg is a boy or a girl? At about 85 degrees you get a mixed set, but if it is cold then they will be boys and warmer you will have girls. That is crazy. Male sea turtles spend the rest of their lives at sea, the female come on land to lay eggs and once in a great while to sun bathe.
They are endangered species, but the Leatherbacks in the Atlantic seem to be stable or increasing. The Pacific turtles are declining fast do to egg harvesting for human consumption. That is so sad.
Ok, off to finish my report on Leatherback sea turtles. Have a great week,
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The green sea turtle is not named for the color of its shell but for the green skin tone it has on its legs and heads. The green sea turtle is one of the largest turtles in the world, they weigh up to 700 pounds. They have a little head that goes with their heart-shaped carapace that goes up to 5 feet long. It is really funny, the adult green sea turtle eats sea grasses and algae, but when they are young they eat invertebrates like crab, jellyfish, and sponges. The green sea turtle are the only sea turtles that often comes onto land and bask in the sun. I am having so much fun doing my project on sea turtles, it is amazing to see how much the same turtles are and how much different too.
Just a few facts, I will be studying these for a couple weeks. So I might share something exciting soon .. lol .. I love turtles.
I lived with an Aunt and Uncle for the five years I was there. Moms sent money so we had better options than most of my friends. Although my Uncle would not accept much help. My best friend Lisbeth never knew when her next meal would come. We had her over for dinner a lot so she had a meal during the day. There is so much we can do to help out people in need everywhere.
We are both glad to be home, but it is taking a lot to get into the swing of things and my friends wants. Some of them spent more on their first day of school outfit that what we had for food money for the month. My Uncle is weird about accepting help, he works hard and did not want to even 'borrow' the money to build a new home, but finally had to because the old one was falling down around us. He would not take the money he had to borrow it so Mama let him.
Well that is enough today. The photos are all taken by Mama or Nana while we were in Honduras.
We are so excited for school this year, it is going to be a very exciting year for us all. We are enjoying the new year and it is only one day in but we are going to have some fun classes this year.
Those are the few I can dig up today. I will see if I can find some more of the girls. We all have those 'First day of school' photos that our guardians took of us .. BORING!! We love our school and classes, they are so much fun, lots of work they expect 110% out of you, but they are also proud when you do it that mark and help you when you are not hitting it. If you give a little effort you can go far. That is one of the things that we all love about attending our school at Shadow Mountain.
We are in two separate rows, but we face each other sorta. Enough that we can still smile and giggle being so close. We did miss our friend Carlyee but she enjoys home school so she is doing that again this year. She does get to play soccer and things with us. We are so happy. ![]() We saw Kelsyee and Kat who are in 5th grade, they have the same recess as we do. Our lunches over lap too but they sit with their friends. We did talk to them and they were having a great day. They both love their new classroom and are so happy to be in the same class this year. Maybe one of the older girls will get on later. We are not sure why we all had to come to school today and tomorrow. There is no work for two days just meet and greet. We got our books today and had a project of covering them so they stay nice. Then we had time with craft supplies to decorate the books we covered. It was a fun day today.
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