Turtles
Loggerhead Turtle
Caretta caretta · Marine reptile — family Cheloniidae
The loggerhead is the heavyweight journeyman of the turtle world — thick-necked, barrel-bodied, its outsized amber head built around jaws that crack conch like walnuts. Divers meet it in less glamorous places than its reef cousins: trudging across shell hash off Florida, wedged on a North Carolina wreck, cruising sandy gutters at Sodwana ahead of summer nesting. What it lacks in delicacy it repays in presence; a big female pushing past resembles slow-moving furniture and utterly ignores you. Its hatchlings ride ocean gyres for years — the 'lost years' — before returning to coastal shallows, one of the great migration stories in the sea.
इसे कहाँ और कब देखें
"निवासी" का अर्थ है कि उस गंतव्य पर अधिकांश डाइव्स में उनसे मुलाकात होती है; "मौसमी" का अर्थ है कि वे सूचीबद्ध महीनों में विश्वसनीय रूप से मौजूद रहते हैं; इसके अलावा जो भी मिले वह बोनस है, योजना नहीं।
| गंतव्य | विश्वसनीयता | माह | नोट्स |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florida KeysUnited States | Resident — seen on most dives | साल भर | |
| Sodwana BaySouth Africa | Seasonal — reliable in season | Nov–Feb | |
| Malta & GozoMalta | Occasional | साल भर | |
| North Carolina Outer BanksUnited States | Occasional | May–Sep |
एक नज़र में सर्वश्रेष्ठ महीना
| माह | विश्वसनीय गंतव्य |
|---|---|
| January | Florida Keys · Sodwana Bay · Malta & Gozo |
| February | Florida Keys · Sodwana Bay · Malta & Gozo |
| March | Florida Keys · Malta & Gozo |
| April | Florida Keys · Malta & Gozo |
| May | Florida Keys · Malta & Gozo · North Carolina Outer Banks |
| June | Florida Keys · Malta & Gozo · North Carolina Outer Banks |
| July | Florida Keys · Malta & Gozo · North Carolina Outer Banks |
| August | Florida Keys · Malta & Gozo · North Carolina Outer Banks |
| September | Florida Keys · Malta & Gozo · North Carolina Outer Banks |
| October | Florida Keys · Malta & Gozo |
| November | Florida Keys · Sodwana Bay · Malta & Gozo |
| December | Florida Keys · Sodwana Bay · Malta & Gozo |
इन्हें समझना
आवास: Hard bottoms, wrecks, ledges, and open shelf waters; less reef-bound than greens or hawksbills
रेंज: Temperate and subtropical oceans worldwide — the US Atlantic coast, Mediterranean, southern Africa, Oman, Japan, and eastern Australia hold major nesting populations
व्यवहार: A powerful, big-headed cruiser often met plodding across open sand or hauled up on a wreck deck like a boulder with flippers. Less site-faithful underwater than reef turtles, it covers ocean basins between feeding and nesting grounds; barnacle-crusted shells testify to the mileage.
आहार: Hard-shelled prey — conch, whelks, crabs, and urchins — crushed with massive jaw muscles housed in the oversized head
आकार: आमतौर पर लगभग 0.9 m; दर्ज अधिकतम गहराई 1.1 m (carapace length; a heavily built turtle commonly well over 100 kg).
इसके आसपास कैसे व्यवहार करें
Standard turtle rules: no touching or riding, clear path to the surface, and extra distance during nesting season near mating pairs, which are focused and easily stressed.
संरक्षण
Vulnerable; longline and trawl bycatch remains the central threat, answered in part by hook and excluder-device rules, while beach protection has stabilized several nesting populations.
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