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SEA TURTLE NESTING BEHAVIOR
There, using her rear flippers, she digs an egg chamber cavity about eight inches in diameter and 18 inches deep ... the eggs with sand and then spreads sand over a wide area with her front flippers to obscure the exact location of the chamber. She then leaves the nest site and ...
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The Filey Encounter
Authors (poor ... profile of the animal’s head. There is no tail apparent or described, just the rear flippers that could give a divided “ tail” impression. Now seals are common around the Orkneys ...
www.cornes1.fsnet.co.uk
CRESLI seal page
Their front flippers are short and haired and equipped with large claws, while the hind flippers are webbed and directed backward. The rear flippers propel the seal through the water ... and fur seals are quite different from true seals. Their long flexible front flippers and versatile hind flippers enable these mammals to actually run on land and their long agile necks give ...
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Euroturtle
(DN). Now she uses only her rear flippers, alternately, like hands, and scoops out flippers full of damp sand. She scoops sand ... she can reach no deeper, she pauses and begins contractions, her rear flippers raising off the sands surface simultaneously. Soon she begins laying ... her clutch is complete, she closes the nest (CN). Using her rear flippers in the same way as she did during the DN ...
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Euroturtle
(DN). Now she uses only her rear flippers, alternately, like hands, and scoops out flippers full of damp sand. She scoops sand ... she can reach no deeper, she pauses and begins contractions, her rear flippers raising off the sands surface simultaneously. Soon she begins laying ... her clutch is complete, she closes the nest (CN). Using her rear flippers in the same way as she did during the DN ...
euroturtle.org
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The Marine Mammal Center
We tag phocids (true seals) on the rear flippers, and otariids (eared seals) on the front flippers. Generally, males are tagged on the left flipper ...
marinemammalcenter.org
Arctic Studies Center
Arctic waters eating fish like arctic cod as well as crustaceans and mollusks. Their rear flippers are turned backward. This improves their swimming, but makes it difficult to move around on ...
www.mnh.si.edu
Pinnipeds: Seals, Sea Lions, and Walruses - Office of Protected Resources - NOAA Fisheries
They lack external ears and use their hind flippers for propulsion through ... hind limbs are under the body. In the water, walruses use either fore flippers (like otariids) or hind flippers (like phocids) for propulsion. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) has ...
www.nmfs.noaa.gov
Critter Corner | Green Sea Turtle
When the sea ... on land. Nesting only at night, the female must use her front flippers to pull herself out of the water and all the way to ... the upper beach. She uses her front flippers to dig a broad pit in the sand and her rear flippers to carve out a bottle-shaped burrow ...
refugenet.org
Archives | floridaleatherbacks.com
In 2003, a turtle with the same problem ... season Chris spotted her again and remembered the scalloped rear flipper. After looking through files and blogs, we realized ... rear flipper down causing sand to fall into her egg chamber and then tried nesting again. Every time she tried dropping eggs you could see the strain in her rear flippers ...
floridaleatherbacks.com
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