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An olive turtle, considered a vulnerable species, has traveled a long journey of 4,500 km to lay eggs on the west coast of India, local media reported.
An “olive turtle” – a kind of turtle which owes its name to the olive color of its shell – in 2021 has become the first of this species considered vulnerable to swim several thousand kilometers from the east coast of Orissa to the west coast of Maharashtra (in the south of the country), reports international mail citing the Indian daily Times of India
“At the start of the year, volunteers from the Maharashtra forest department found a lonely turtle nesting on Guhagar beach in Ratnagiri,” said The Indian Express. By examining it, they discovered his ring. The turtle had an identity – 03233 – and a story.
The researchers discovered that the turtle had made “a long and difficult trip of almost 4,500 kilometers”, starting from Gahirmatha, in the state of Orissa, descending the east coast, “perhaps bypassing Sri Lanka, going up to Jaffna, in the north of the island, turning around and descending to Thiruvananthapuram [Trivandrum] Before going up the west coast and finally reaching the Ratnagiri coasts ”, details the same media.
Tortoise number 03233 had been banded by the Zoological Survey of India (ZSI, Indian Zoological Study Center) on March 18, 2021, in the Marine Sanctuary of Gahirmatha, in Orissa, specifies international mail stressing that the adventurer is part of a group of 12,000 olive turtles, whose fins have been bathed to allow researchers to follow their migration diagrams and Food search.
The epic journey of turtle number 03233 would be the first migratory feat of this type recorded in olive -meter turtles, which are known to be excellent navigators, underlines Courrier International.
Previously, the researchers thought that olive turtles from Sri Lanka arrived en masse in orissa for their nesting or this discovery suggests that “all olive -olivatous turtles do not come to Orissa or on the eastern coast for mass nesting and that some move to the western coasts for nesting. Oriental but also the western coasts, ”explains Basudev Tripathy, of ZSI, which itself labeled the turtle 03233.
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