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January 14th, 2010 by KittyKitty

related article: Loggerhead Sea Turtle Size

Because their head’s size is not proportional with the bodies, it was named Loggerhead Sea Turtles. These sea turtles are living in the tropical water of three major oceans: the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian.

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They can be found either 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.

Physical Attributes of Loggerhead Sea Turtles

Beside its unproportional large head, which holds a very strong jaw that have very strong biting power, they has other distinguishing marks on its body.

Its top shell looks like a heart and mixed colored red and brown. Its skin on the other hand is a mix of light yellow and brown. A mature loggerhead turtle can reach up to 364 kilograms and is about 3.5 feet long.

Nesting and Mating

These turtles reaching their sexual peak at age 35. They start mating some time between March and June – usually for loggerheads found in the South-East regions of the US – 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 45 to 95 days. This variation is dependent on the present temperature at the time of incubation.

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.

Struggling to Survive

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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