Loggerhead sea turtle

Cobb, G.P. and P.D. Wood. 1997. PCB concentrations in eggs and chorioallantoic membranes of loggerhead sea turtles (Caretta caretta) from the Cape Romain National Wildlife Refuge. Chemosphere 34 539-549. 

Crouse DT, Crowder LB, Caswell H. 1987. A stage-based population model for loggerhead sea turtles and implications for conservation. Ecology 68 1412-1423. 

Clark Jr DR, Krynitsky AJ. 1985. DDE residues and artificial incubation of loggerhead sea turtle eggs. Bull Environ Contam Toxicol 34 121-125. 

Stacy BA, Wellehan JF, Foley AM, Coberley SS, Herbst LH, Manrre CA, Gamer MM, Brookins MD, Childress AL, Jacobson ER. Two herpesvimses associated with disease in wild Atlantic loggerhead sea turtles (Caretta caretta). Vet Microbiol. 2(X)8 126 63-73. 

New evidence indicates that chemical imprinting in sea turtles will have to be even more phenomenal than previously imagined if it indeed occurs. Studies on predicted age of sexual maturity suggest 15-35 or more years for earliest maturation in green and loggerhead sea turtles (Balazs, 1980 ... 

Grassman, M. A., and Owens, D. W., 1982, Development and extinction of food preferences in loggerhead sea turtle. Caretta caretta, Copeia, 1982 965. 

Clark, D.R., Jr. and A.J. Krynitsky. 1980. Organochlorine residues in eggs of loggerhead and green sea turtles nesting at Merritt Island, Florida — July and August 1976. Pestic. Monitor. Jour. 14 7-10. 

In loggerhead turtles (Caretta caretta), PCB concentrations in the chorioallantoic membrane correlate closely with whole-egg PCB concentrations (Cobb and Wood 1997). The authors recommend the use of chorioallantoic membrane tissues as a nonlethal methodology for predicting PCB concentrations in sea turtle hatchlings. 

You may or may not feel the same way. But regardless of how you feel, you would kill every sea otter, every bison, every loggerhead turtle to feed your hungry family. 

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