Loggerhead turtle

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. 

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. 

Pond slider, Pseudemys scripta Loggerhead musk turtle, Sternotherus minor Common musk turtle, Sternotherus odoratus Common box turtle, Terrapene Carolina... 

Turtles also use chemical cues for food, as shown for the marine loggerhead turtle, Caretta caretta (Grassman etal., 1984). Among freshwater turtles, the European pond turtle, Emys orbicularis, locates food hy chemoreception. This species moves chemical stimuli from the pond water to the chemoreceptors of the nasal and oral cavities by slow jaw testing movements . The frequency of these movements increases in response to the amino acids alanine, arginine. 

Tortoiseshell is the name given to the mottled, golden or reddish and brown, translucent, homy plates or scutes covering the shells of certain species of marine turtle. The best known and by far the finest tortoiseshell comes from the hawksbill turtle, but the scutes of the green and the loggerhead turtles have also been put to some decorative uses. 

The scutes on the carapace of the loggerhead are not nearly as pretty as those of the other turtles, and are as thin and fragile as those of the green turtle. Nonetheless the material has been used as tortoiseshell, thou mainly as veneer. The shells are also sold whole. 

The following applies mostly to tortoiseshell om the hawksbill turtle, as that from the green and loggerhead is thin and more britde, and takes less easily to the various treatments. 

The Bluebottle is eaten by other animals, including the loggerhead turtle. The small Bluebottle Fish lives among the tentacles of the Bluebottle and feeds on the tentacles, which are constantly regenerated. Clown Anemone Fish and Yellow-Jack Fish reportedly have a similar relationship and all are nearly immune to the poison from the stinging cells. 

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. 

Box turtle, Terrapene Carolina, 510 Green turtle, Chelonia mydas, 510 Loggerhead turtle, Caretta caretta, 510, 630... 

Tortoise, desert (Gopherus agassizii) Turtle, Atlantic loggerhead (Caretta... 

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. 

Caretta caretta Loggerhead turtle Blood Baja California Sur <0.01 Ley-Quin6nez et al. (2011)... 

Caretta caretta Loggerhead turtle Fat Baja CaRfomia Sur 0.028 Kampalath et al. (2006)... 

Ley-Quin6nez C, Zavala-Norzagaray AA, Espinosa-Carreon TL, Peckham H, Marquez-Hetrera C, Campos-VUlegas L, Aguirre AA (2011) Baseline heavy metals and metaUoids values in blood of loggerhead turtles Caretta caretta) from Baja CaUfomia Sur, Mexico. Mar Pollut BuU 62 1979-1983... 

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. 

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. 

Guitart, R., Martinez Silvestre, A., Guerrero, X., and Mateo, R. (1999) Comparative study of the fatty add composition of two marine vertebrates striped dolphins and loggerhead turtles. Comp. Biochem. Physiol, 124B, 439 43. 

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