Leatherback turtle

the popular cartoon network, Nickelodeon. Nickelodeon started off with a bang. The first three cartoons shown on this network were Doug, The Ren and Stimpy Show, and the Rugrats. Along with these were animated cartoons such as; Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Animaniacs, Hey Arnold, Recess, Dexter’s Laboratory, Ed, Edd and Eddy, and so on. What makes these cartoons better than those of the 2010s…

In Erdrich’s Tracks, the novel tells a story of a Chippewa tribe that is forced to adapt to colonizers in the post-colonization state of America. Through the eyes of two distinct narrators, Nanapush and Pauline, the reader gets an inside view of the perspective of a Native-American tribe in post-colonial America. At the very beginning of the novel, Nanapush describes Native Americans dying from the spotted fever (or yellow fever) due to the colonizers bringing disease as they intermingle with…

The Tale of the Magic Drumstick Once there was a Chippewa Elder named Francis and he loved music. Music was everything to him. He even made traditional Native American musical instruments. The sound of a drumstick hitting against a hand drum would remind him of his own heart beating. Not to mention how music brings people together. So one night while Francis was sleeping. The creator sent Francis a dream of choke cherry bushes swaying in the wind and elks running through the forest. In the…

The Impact of the Wiindigoo in The Round House Louise Erdrich was born in 1954 in Little Falls, Minnesota, and identifies as Turtle Mountain Chippewa. Due to Erdrich’s Native American background, she has written many novels centered around Native American themes. Erdrich’s novel, The Round House, is told from Joe, a thirteen-year-old boy’s, point of view, showing how he copes with the event of his mother’s rape. Joe is outraged that the authorities are not doing more to help find the man…

Dermochelys coriacea, better known as Leatherback Turtle is the world’s largest turtle with a length of 1.6 m and a weight of 300 to 600 kg, fourth-heaviest modern reptile and is the only living species in the genus Dermochelys and family Dermochelyidae. This turtle earns his common name because it lacks the typical bony plates on its carapace, instead, is flexible and covered in a thin layer of leathery skin, is dark in colour with white and pink spots. Females have a characteristic 'pink spot'…

by 0.6°C and is projected to continue to rise. Anthropogenic effects are contributing to the destruction of animal wild life, and the ecosystem. Life is delicate, and changes in the ecosystem due to climate change is endangering wild life. Leatherback turtles or Dermochelys coriacea migrate across the entire basins and according to the 2010 IUNC red list are now critically endangered. The nesting populations for D.coriacea in the Pacific Ocean have steadily declined, while remaining stable in…

for good. Rhinos are fine animals who are struggling against poaching. Rhino numbers are plummeting and if we don't act soon, this wonderful species could become extinct. The leatherback turtle is a majestic sea creature which is mainly being hunted for it's eggs. The main issue is that all seven species of the Sea Turtle are being poached for its eggs, meat and shell.…

the scene where Nemo’s father, Marlin, asks Crush, the hipster sea turtle, how old he is. When his answer was “Hundred and fifty, and still young, dude. Rock on.”, some people might have laughed and did not think much about it and the ones who are insightful about sea life may have said that the writers actually confused the sea turtles with tortoises. If people actually research about sea turtles, they will find that sea turtles usually only live up to 50 years, sometimes 80 years, but rarely…

Sea turtles are among the most extraordinary, charismatic and fascinating creatures, and are some of the world’s greatest nomads, sometimes navigating thousands of miles between feeding and nesting grounds. They are long-lived animals, having a complex life history, low reproductive capacity due to high juvenile mortality rates, and they travel long distances and thus encounter many fishing operations, making them vulnerable to overexploitation and fishing mortality (Spotila, 2004). Five…

causes 1 million birds, 100,000 marine mammals, and 4,600 sea turtles to die. Guess who makes that happen? People! Guess who can stop that, EVERYONE! Innocent animals are dying because of litter in the ocean or any body of water. What are we going to do about it. So many sea animals are dying because of littering. Most of it is happening off the Pacific Coast. The animals are eating the litter and getting stuck in it. Leatherback turtles have been around for 100 million years, and they're…