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I lean over the bucket just brought by volunteers from the white shed on the beach and I can't believe it. Is it really possible that these clumsy, barely seeing, fitting in a palm turtles in about 20 years will transform into one of the largest marine reptiles of this planet? They will reach almost 3 meters in length and over half a ton weigh! But only the bravest representatives of leatherback sea turtles will achieve adulthood. From the moment of their first heroic hike into the ocean, they are exposed to many dangers, including predators, poachers, and drifting garbage which they often confuse with food. That's why a group of volunteers from Todos Santos in Mexico takes the hatchlings under protective umbrella. We had the pleasure to join them and say goodbye to the newborn turtles before ocean waves take the little ones away.
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Slowly losing hope to meet turtles, our Meteor takes us to a town we have been hearing about for some time: Todos Santos. This is where volunteering friends of endangered species such as leatherback turtles operate. The rescue mission is led by Francesca Dvorak and her husband, owners of local company organizing eco-friendly outdoor activities, such as whale watching, kayaks, hiking etc. The idea of regular support for turtles was born during a night patrol they did with friends. Turtle eggs laid in the night are delicacy for many predators, including coyotes, raccoons, birds and even people treating them as aphrodisiacs in some cultures. Under such circumstances, statistics show that less than half of hatchlings are likely to survive. With help of people, who take the eggs to secured location, the chance rises up to 80%. And then, out of the hatched ones that painstakingly make their way to water, assisted by volunteers, the first days will survive 25%, and only 6% will achieve one year. And these reptiles are extremely important in the marine ecosystem. They mostly feed on jellyfish, so if there were no Leatherbacks, the number of jellyfish would rapidly rise. Jellyfish, in turn, feed on fish eggs. If leatherback turtles didn't regulate the number of jellyfish, this would cause decrease in fish number. Fish of course is essential food also for people in many regions of the world.
Apart from the aspect of the unbalanced ecosystem, whose effects would be felt globally, the leatherback turtle is simply a very unique reptile! These giants are the only remaining turtles on Earth that trace its evolutionary roots back more than 100 million years! Ancestors of leatherback turtles roamed the Earth roughly in times of T.Rex. And why are they called Leatherbacks? Unlike other turtles, they don't have a hard shell on the back of the neck (scientifically called a carapace), but they are protected by thick skin with embedded bone structures (osteoderm).
Reptiles: In Hunt to produkcja stworzona przez niewielkie polskie studio Corpix Games. Rozgrywka tytułu kręci się wokół mechanik survivalowych w świecie opanowanym przez dinozaury. Znaczną uwagę poświęcono konstrukcji świata i opowiedzeniu jego historii poprzez wygląd lokacji. 041b061a72