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Exercise warms adult leatherback turtles
Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part A: Molecular & Integrative Physiology, 2007Leatherback sea turtles (Dermochelys coriacea) can maintain body temperature (T(B)) up to 18 degrees C above that of the surrounding sea water (T(W)) which allows leatherbacks to enter cold temperate waters and have the largest global range of any reptile.
Brian L, Bostrom, David R, Jones
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Pacific leatherback turtles face extinction
Nature, 2000Fisheries can help avert the alarming decline in population of these ancient reptiles. The dwindling numbers of leatherback turtles are signalling a threat to biodiversity in the oceans. A mathematical model based on our assessment of a once-large leatherback population predicts that unsustainable adult mortality, apparently due to human fishing ...
J R, Spotila +4 more
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Leatherback Turtles in Vanuatu
Chelonian Conservation and Biology, 2007ABSTRACT Leatherback turtles, Dermochelys coriacea, have not previously been reported nesting in Vanuatu. A review of archival data, unpublished reports, interviews with key informants from coastal communities, and a nesting beach survey indicates that leatherback nesting occurs on a number of islands, including Pentecost, Ambrym, Malakula, Epi, and ...
George Petro +2 more
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Global phylogeography of the leatherback turtle (Dermochelys coriacea)
Journal of Zoology, 1999AbstractAnalyses of mitochondrial (mt) DNA control region sequences from 175 leatherback turtlesDermochelys coriaceafrom 10 nesting colonies revealed shallow phylogenetic structuring of maternal lineages on a global scale. Eleven haplotypes were observed, and mean estimated sequence divergence,p= 0.00581, is much lower than the deepest nodes reported ...
Peter H. Dutton +4 more
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Population level “flipperedness” in the eastern Pacific leatherback turtle
Behavioural Brain Research, 2010Limb preference is a behavioral indicator of lateralized brain function that was recently elucidated experimentally in lower vertebrates. We assessed natural spontaneous limb use of nesting eastern Pacific leatherback turtles by recording which hindlimb flipper was extended overtop the cloaca to cover the egg chamber during oviposition.
Annette E, Sieg +4 more
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Endangered species: where leatherback turtles meet fisheries.
Nature, 2004The dramatic worldwide decline in populations of the leatherback turtle (Dermochelys coriacea) is largely due to the high mortality associated with their interaction with fisheries, so a reduction of this overlap is critical to their survival. The discovery of narrow migration corridors used by the leatherbacks in the Pacific Ocean raised the ...
Sandra, Ferraroli +3 more
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