What Kind of Turtle is Loggerhead Sea Turtle?

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Because the size of their heads is not proportionate with their bodies, the name Loggerhead Sea Turtles were given. These sea turtles can be found in the tropical areas of three major oceans: the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian.

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They can either be found deep into the sea or in other bodies of water like wide rivers and lagoons, bays, creeks and salt marshes. These turtles are often seen along coral reefs and rocky areas even shipwrecks when they are feeding.

Some Physical Attributes of Loggerhead Sea Turtles

Beside its large head, which holds a very strong jaw that have very strong biting power that can bite into tough-shelled victim like whelks, they has other distinguishing marks on its body.

Its top shell looks a little bit like a heart and has a mix of red and brown in color. In the other hand, its skin is colored yellow and brown mixed. A mature loggerhead turtle can reach up to 364 kilograms and is about 3.5 feet long.

Nesting and Mating

These kind of turtles normally reach their sexual peak at age thirty-five. March - June would be the start of matting season - usually for the one found in the SE regions of the United States - and they begin to nest somewhere between April and September.

Loggerheads typically nest during nighttime and they can nest up to seven times in one season with intervals of approximately fourteen days apart. The average incubation time is between forty-five to ninety-five days. the present temperature at the time of incubation will determine this.

The baby loggerheads do not take on the colors of the adults and hence, their appearances may also vary ranging from light brown to dark brown; gray to black. Their average size is about forty-five millimeters long and they are only about twenty grams light.

Risks for Surviving

Loggerhead sea turtles are faced with threats to their daily survival mainly from being caught in a fisherman’s net, trawls, traps, and dredges. Another great survival risk that these loveable loggerheads are facing are direct hunts for them usually within Central America.

Although they are not yet an endangered species, these threats have caused their numbers to go down, particularly in the regions of the Bahamas, Mexico, Colombia, Israel, Turkey, Japan and Greece. For this reason, conservation efforts have been implemented to protect them from extinction as well as to look out for their well-being.

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