If you have ever baby sat or watched a younger sibling, chances are you’ve probably switched on the television, and watched the popular kid’s show Phineas and Ferb, which happens to have a very catchy theme song that is nice to hum to. But if you listen to the lyrics, there is a more sinister, sadder message behind the theme song. For instance, the theme song is about all of the possible adventures Phineas and Ferb can do during summer vacation, and most of them are strange and unheard of, such as finding a dodo bird, because they are extinct. It is sad because children will never actually be able to see a live dodo bird because their extinction was mostly anthropogenic and took place mid-1600s (bbc.com). Now in the 21st century, we, meaning
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Fun fact, it is not named the green sea turtle because of the color of its shell, which is usually not green but brown, dark olive or black. It’s green because of the color of its subdermal (another word for under the skin) body fat. In Addition, green sea turtles can grow to be as long as 5 feet head to tail and can weigh up to 350 pounds. They tend to live for quite a while, reaching sexual maturity 30 to 50 years of age and can live up to 100 years of age if they partook in a healthy lifestyle, which includes living on a primarily herbivore diet (seagrasses and algae) as an adult, while juvenile turtles may feed on invertebrates such as insects and crustaceans. Typically, green sea turtles live and grow in shallow waters, most usually around islands and beaches, near reefs and/or bays, and they are attracted to lagoons due to their abundance in nutrients. The only times they remove themselves from the shallows is during breeding season, since they seem to be quite loyal to their favorite breeding sites and will migrate across the ocean over long periods of time if they have to. Yet, their range of habitats never leave the subtropical/ tropical warm ocean waters, so in the United states territories, you might find them in the east coast, so in Puerto Rico, Florida, North and South Carolina, and Georgia, while …show more content…
The r-selected species produce plenty offspring, but there is not that much parental investment in them while growing up, therefore their probability of surviving to adulthood is very low. Contrast to the k-selected species, which produce very few offspring, yet really work on nurturing them to adult hood, therefore have a higher chance of surviving. The green sea turtles falls under the r-selected species, being that the adult female turtles can lay up to 9 clutches per nesting season, each clutch average 136 eggs (75 to 200 eggs in range). Nesting season typically happens between late spring and early summer every two to four years near shallow waters. After mating occurs, the female individual finds their desired sand area to lay her eggs, she digs a pit with her flippers and lays a clutch of eggs, then returns to shore, leaving the eggs to incubate for approximately two months until
Fun fact, it is not named the green sea turtle because of the color of its shell, which is usually not green but brown, dark olive or black. It’s green because of the color of its subdermal (another word for under the skin) body fat. In Addition, green sea turtles can grow to be as long as 5 feet head to tail and can weigh up to 350 pounds. They tend to live for quite a while, reaching sexual maturity 30 to 50 years of age and can live up to 100 years of age if they partook in a healthy lifestyle, which includes living on a primarily herbivore diet (seagrasses and algae) as an adult, while juvenile turtles may feed on invertebrates such as insects and crustaceans. Typically, green sea turtles live and grow in shallow waters, most usually around islands and beaches, near reefs and/or bays, and they are attracted to lagoons due to their abundance in nutrients. The only times they remove themselves from the shallows is during breeding season, since they seem to be quite loyal to their favorite breeding sites and will migrate across the ocean over long periods of time if they have to. Yet, their range of habitats never leave the subtropical/ tropical warm ocean waters, so in the United states territories, you might find them in the east coast, so in Puerto Rico, Florida, North and South Carolina, and Georgia, while …show more content…
The r-selected species produce plenty offspring, but there is not that much parental investment in them while growing up, therefore their probability of surviving to adulthood is very low. Contrast to the k-selected species, which produce very few offspring, yet really work on nurturing them to adult hood, therefore have a higher chance of surviving. The green sea turtles falls under the r-selected species, being that the adult female turtles can lay up to 9 clutches per nesting season, each clutch average 136 eggs (75 to 200 eggs in range). Nesting season typically happens between late spring and early summer every two to four years near shallow waters. After mating occurs, the female individual finds their desired sand area to lay her eggs, she digs a pit with her flippers and lays a clutch of eggs, then returns to shore, leaving the eggs to incubate for approximately two months until