Voyage Of The Turtle

Author : Carl Safina
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company
ISBN 13 : 1429900865
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Voyage of the Turtle written by Carl Safina and published by Henry Holt and Company. This book was released on 2007-04-01 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of an ancient sea turtle and what its survival says about our future, from the award-winning writer and naturalist Though nature is indifferent to the struggles of her creatures, the human effect on them is often premeditated. The distressing decline of sea turtles in Pacific waters and their surprising recovery in the Atlantic illuminate what can go both wrong and right from our interventions, and teach us the lessons that can be applied to restore health to the world's oceans and its creatures. As Voyage of the Turtle, Carl Safina's compelling natural history adventure makes clear, the fate of the astonishing leatherback turtle, whose ancestry can be traced back 125 million years, is in our hands. Writing with verve and color, Safina describes how he and his colleagues track giant pelagic turtles across the world's oceans and onto remote beaches of every continent. As scientists apply lessons learned in the Atlantic and Caribbean to other endangered seas, Safina follows leatherback migrations, including a thrilling journey from Monterey, California, to nesting grounds on the most remote beaches of Papua, New Guinea. The only surviving species of its genus, family, and suborder, the leatherback is an evolutionary marvel: a "reptile" that behaves like a warm-blooded dinosaur, an ocean animal able to withstand colder water than most fishes and dive deeper than any whale. In his peerless prose, Safina captures the delicate interaction between these gentle giants and the humans who are finally playing a significant role in their survival. "Magnificent . . . A joyful, hopeful book. Safina gives us ample reasons to be enthralled by this astonishing ancient animal—and ample reasons to care." -- The Los Angeles Times

Author : Kurt Cyrus
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 054742924X
Total Pages : 43 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Voyage of Turtle Rex written by Kurt Cyrus and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2011 with total page 43 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Follows the life of a giant prehistoric sea turtle.

Author : Stephen R. Swinburne
Publisher : Millbrook Press
ISBN 13 : 1541595661
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Run, Sea Turtle, Run written by Stephen R. Swinburne and published by Millbrook Press. This book was released on 2020-03-03 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Can you hear me? Scritch, scratch. I'm a little sea turtle inside an egg." Follow a hatchling's treacherous journey from nest to sea. Longtime science writer Stephen Swinburne creates an engaging first-person narrative from the sea turtle's perspective. Gorgeous photographs by Guillaume Feuillet capture the drama of the hatchlings' race to safety. Back matter includes information on the life cycle of leatherback sea turtles, tips for how readers can assist with sea turtle conservation, and recommended further reading.

Author : James R. Spotila
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 0801880076
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sea Turtles written by James R. Spotila and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2004-11-12 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marine biologist James R. Spotila has spent much of his life unraveling the mysteries of these graceful creatures and working to ensure their survival. In "Sea Turtles," he offers a comprehensive and compelling account of their history and life cycle based on the most recent scientific data and suggests what we can be done to save them. Illustrated with stunning, full-color photographs. 0-808-8007-6$24.95 / Johns Hopkins University Press

Author : Jennifer Shand
Publisher : Triangle Interactive, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1684441056
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Why Do Sea Turtles Look Like They Are Crying? written by Jennifer Shand and published by Triangle Interactive, Inc. . This book was released on 2017-12-13 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Read Along or Enhanced eBook: Why do sea turtles look like they are crying? Come along on an underwater adventure and have fun learning the special things about sea creatures that help them survive in the ocean.

Author : James R. Spotila
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 142141709X
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Leatherback Turtle written by James R. Spotila and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2015-10-30 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most comprehensive book ever written on leatherback sea turtles. Weighing as much as 2,000 pounds and reaching lengths of over seven feet, leatherback turtles are the world’s largest reptile. These unusual sea turtles have a thick, pliable shell that helps them to withstand great depths—they can swim more than one thousand meters below the surface in search of food. And what food source sustains these goliaths? Their diet consists almost exclusively of jellyfish, a meal they crisscross the oceans to find. Leatherbacks have been declining in recent decades, and some predict they will be gone by the end of this century. Why? Because of two primary factors: human redevelopment of nesting beaches and commercial fishing. There are only twenty-nine index beaches in the world where these turtles nest, and there is immense pressure to develop most of them into homes or resorts. At the same time, longline and gill net fisheries continue to overwhelm waters frequented by leatherbacks. In The Leatherback Turtle, James R. Spotila and Pilar Santidrián Tomillo bring together the world’s leading experts to produce a volume that reveals the biology of the leatherback while putting a spotlight on the conservation problems and solutions related to the species. The book leaves us with options: embark on the conservation strategy laid out within its pages and save one of nature’s most splendid creations, or watch yet another magnificent species disappear.

Author : Karen Romano Young
Publisher : Mission: Animal Rescue
ISBN 13 : 1426318936
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book National Geographic Kids Mission: Sea Turtle Rescue written by Karen Romano Young and published by Mission: Animal Rescue. This book was released on 2015 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: True adventure stories, photography, and hands-on activities combine in an introduction to the sea turtle and the ongoing efforts of conservationists to protect the species.

Author : Mary Ellen Klukow
Publisher : Amicus Ink
ISBN 13 : 9781681524917
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Turtle's Dangerous Journey written by Mary Ellen Klukow and published by Amicus Ink. This book was released on 2019-08-20 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Animals face scary challenges every day! These narrative nonfiction books focus on describing the changes to animals habitats that affect the animal's way of life—or even puts their species at risk of dying out! Readers will learn about the reasons for changes in habitats that affect animals and small steps they can take to help protect them. A turtle is making her way across a highway to find a nesting spot. She avoids being run over, only to find trash in the nesting grounds which will attract predators to her eggs. Will the turtle survive this dangerous journey? This narrative nonfiction title includes a range map, notes on how to help turtles, further resources, and a glossary.

Author : Sandra Clayton
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1408155850
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Turtles in Our Wake written by Sandra Clayton and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2012-01-03 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most people at some point long to escape - from the weather, the commute, the routine. Sailing off in a forty-foot boat called Voyager comes at a price, however. Indeed, for David and Sandra Clayton it meant selling their house and possessions with a lifetime's collection of memories and emotions attached to them. But the result proved life-enhancing. With her eye for detail and vivid descriptions, Sandra carries the reader with her through some of the Mediterranean's loveliest islands. Charmed by tranquil anchorages, ancient harbours and the people they meet, they also develop a fascination with the sea and its wildlife. And, whilst questioning the things we value and the nature of happiness, this book reveals the growing and sometimes amusing inter-dependence of two people alone at sea. This is the sequel to the popular Dolphins under my Bed, which charted Sandra and David's first long journey: a 2,000-mile voyage from England, down the Atlantic coast and into the warm waters of the Mediterranean.

Author : Donald C. Jackson
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674058909
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Life in a Shell written by Donald C. Jackson and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2011-02-04 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Trundling along in essentially the same form for some 220 million years, turtles have seen dinosaurs come and go, mammals emerge, and humankind expand its dominion. Is it any wonder the persistent reptile bested the hare? In this engaging book physiologist Donald Jackson shares a lifetime of observation of this curious creature, allowing us a look under the shell of an animal at once so familiar and so strange. Here we discover how the turtle’s proverbial slowness helps it survive a long, cold winter under ice. How the shell not only serves as a protective home but also influences such essential functions as buoyancy control, breathing, and surviving remarkably long periods without oxygen, and how many other physiological features help define this unique animal. Jackson offers insight into what exactly it’s like to live inside a shell—to carry the heavy carapace on land and in water, to breathe without an expandable ribcage, to have sex with all that body armor intervening. Along the way we also learn something about the process of scientific discovery—how the answer to one question leads to new questions, how a chance observation can change the direction of study, and above all how new research always builds on the previous work of others. A clear and informative exposition of physiological concepts using the turtle as a model organism, the book is as interesting for what it tells us about scientific investigation as it is for its deep and detailed understanding of how the enduring turtle “works.”