Turtles
Olive Ridley Turtle
Lepidochelys olivacea · Marine reptile — family Cheloniidae
The olive ridley is the ocean's commonest sea turtle and one of its least seen by divers — a modest, round-shelled animal in gray-green that spends its life offshore rather than posing on reefs. Its fame rests on one of nature's numeric marvels: the arribadas of Ostional and Nancite in Costa Rica and Odisha in India, when a season's females arrive in coordinated waves and beaches vanish under nesting turtles. Underwater encounters are surface crossings — a small head raised mid-ocean, a pair drifting in the blue off Baja or the Revillagigedos. Sheer abundance hides real vulnerability; a species that concentrates itself so densely can be hurt at scale just as fast.
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"상주종"은 해당 다이빙 포인트에서 대부분의 다이빙 시 만날 수 있다는 의미이며, "계절종"은 표기된 월에 안정적으로 출현한다는 뜻입니다. 그 외의 생물은 보너스로 여기세요 — 계획의 근거로 삼지 마세요.
| 목적지 | 신뢰도 | 월 | 참고 사항 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Costa Rica Pacific CoastCosta Rica | Seasonal — reliable in season | Aug–Nov | |
| Socorro & the RevillagigedosMexico | Occasional | 연중 가능 | |
| Sea of Cortez & Cabo PulmoMexico | Occasional | 연중 가능 |
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이해하기
서식지: Open tropical ocean and soft-bottom coastal shelves; not a reef turtle — most of its life passes offshore
범위: Pantropical, with enormous eastern Pacific and Indian Ocean populations; mass-nesting beaches in Costa Rica, Mexico, and India
행동 특성: Famous for the arribada — synchronized mass nesting in which tens of thousands of females storm a single beach over a few nights, a strategy that swamps predators. At sea it drifts and forages alone, often logging motionless at the surface far from land.
먹이: Crustaceans, jellyfish, tunicates, and small invertebrates taken in open water and on soft bottoms
크기: 보통 0.65 m; 최대 기록 수심 0.75 m (carapace length; the smallest sea turtle alongside its Kemp's ridley sister species).
이 생물 주변에서의 행동 요령
Arribada beaches are strictly managed — enter only with licensed guides under national park rules. At sea, give floating turtles space; they may be resting, mating, or accompanied by boats' propellers too often already.
보존
Vulnerable; regulated egg harvest at Ostional coexists with strict protection elsewhere, while trawl bycatch — answered by turtle excluder devices — and coastal development press the big rookeries.
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