These sea turtles ‘dance’ when magnetic fields lead them to a snack
Loggerhead sea turtles ( Caretta caretta) are pretty loyal marine reptiles. Even with their roughly 8,000-mile-long migrations across oceans, they consistently return to the same feeding and nesting sites. Sea turtles can travel these distances by remembering the magnetic signatures of an area and storing that knowledge in a mental map.
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Dancing turtles help us understand how they navigate around the worldThe turtle dance is a strange pattern of behaviour that emerges quickly in young captive sea turtles when they figure out ...
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Endangered loggerhead turtles break nesting record at Mon Repos beachRangers at the Mon Repos turtle rookery on the Bundaberg coast say they have seen the biggest influx of nesting loggerhead ...
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