Olive Ridley Turtles.

Turtles are mostly found in seas.The come out to the sand beaches also sometimes. I am not referring to the "Hare&Tortoise " Story fo kids in which the fast running hare was defeated by a Tortoise who used his presence of mind&intelligence in race of running.The turtle moved slowly to reach desyination.The hare who was clever after running some distance thought the slow running tortoise would take hours to arrive at the destination. In the meantime,the hare thought,she could take long rest closing her eyes. But unfortunately the hare fell asleep & got up refresh after many hours.In the meantime the slow running/walking tortoise had reached the Destination&thus won the race to take the crown meant for the race as reward. So goes the story. But in respect of all kinds of Turtle the slow nature is main reason for threat to their life The Female turtles generally keep their species by laying eggs.The hatching period for the tutles depend up on the type of the turtles There are large number&different types of the turtles all over the world are found in seas all over the world There are some types of turtles living in rivers ,lakes &even ponds probably migrated from sea via shore to their new shelter.Basically Turtles are sea animals. A few of the different types of turtles are Box turtles,Painted turtles & so on. A few of the well known turtle4s of many a turtles in the world are shown above :

Rhe above pictures are a few out of enormous number of turtles found all over the world. %They are Seanecked Turtle,Side necked ,Russian Tortoises,Loggerhead sea turtles,Hidden necked ,Green sea turtles,Galapagos turtles . It is next to impossible to depict all turtles in the world because whereever sea &seashore are available Turtles are are supposed to be the members of the Turtles are very beautiful but helpless creatures.Their shell on the back is the only weapon that protects them from being killed by other animals&birds. Men&women are not less in this regard as compared to animals &birds because fortunately or unfortunately the the flesh of turtles are found to be one of the most nutritious diet for human beings also. So whereever turtles are available poachers&hunters also exist. Turtles are very costly commodity which has high selling value &market all over the world. The food habits of Turtles:Generally yurtles eat leaf items likeLettuce,Corn,Green beans,CarrotsApples,Banana&Tomato. Generally they are vegetarians especially sea turtles.A Turtles ,however eat meat also. The main Nonveg diets of turtles are Jelly Fish,Seaweed,Crabs,Shrimp,Sponges&Snails. Reproduction habits:The turtles are egg laying species. The eggs are hatched out by male or female Turtles depending upon the temperature of the ar It is not easy to ensure the number of turtles all over the world because Male&Juvenile turtles do not return to shore once they hatch&return to the ocean.So it is very hard effort to track them again. Sea turtles are found in all warm&temperate waters throughout the world &migrate hundreds of miles/or hundres of KMs between nesting &feeding grounds.Most of the sea turtles encounter long migration even to a distance of around 1400 miles(2240 Kms approx)between their feeding ground & beaches/Shores where they nest. Sea Turtles spend most of their life in water.When females come to the beach/Shore the dig out nest in the ground using their flippers.They bury their clutch of eggs in this nest &return to ocean.BUT THEY NEVER RETURN TO SEE# WHAT HAPPENED TO THIER EGGS OrTO SEE THEIR young ones. The young ones,however, after hatching takes more than a week to emerge by digging out themselves out of their nest digged by their mother female.What a peculiar phenomenon!!!.And alas!they emerge only at night ,perhaps, to avoid the deadly eyes of human beings& move to the sea slowly without being noticed by their animal enemies and Human Enemies.They remain in the sea until the mate time is approached.that is until they mature!. This is the way the God taught to protect themselves&also by using their hard shell behind them.When they pull neck inside &lie motionless they mostly ecape notice by Animals.The human at midnight do not wander in beach or shore fearing themselves.Fear is the Key for Men,Women&Animals!!!. WHAT A SECRET TRUTH THE ANIMALS &HUMAN EQUALLY SHARE!!!. Let me be a bit personal in this context.When I was a kid of 6 years ,I still remember, I had waited for a **************************************************************************************************************** tortoise gone into water to emerge.Hours long wait did not produce any result until my mother searched & found me ******************************************************************************************************************* at the shore of the Pond where I was waiting & took me home.The rest what could have happened is left for the ******************************************************************************************************************* readers to imagine. *********************** The mating season of Turtles/Tortoises is from March to October depending on the Species. The Gestation is from 6 to 10 weeks depending on the species again. The size/Number of eggs is from 70 to 190 eggs again depending on the species. I had read a news in Media recently that a voluntery orgahisation during their routine watch over the beach shore in Kasrgod Beach in the early morning found a freshly dug Turtle nest very well concealed.There were more than 100 turtle eggs in the nest .The organisation, luckily for the turtle,being voluntary nature transferred the eggs into a bucket,took them to a hatchery where they are being protected from predators&poachers.It is also said that after carefully protedting them secretly,perhaps,without being noticed by unscrupolous poachers. Their idea behing offering this protection was with a view to ensuring that they are allowed to go back to the sea at the right time. This Media report PROMPTED ME TO ATTEMPT THIS BLOG ON ONE OF THE MOST INNOCENT SPECIES IN THE WORLD. THE "SEAWORLD" AT SAN DIEGO,CALIFORNIA [USA] is the BEST PLACE TO FIND ALL KINDS OF TURTLES IN THE WORLD. Besides,It is also underdtood that the species they rescued at Kasargod belonged to the Species OLIVE RIDLEYTURTLE Species{Please refer to the PICTURE at the TOP of this BLOG} This Turtle is a rare one & is visiting KASARGOD after a very long time of missing the beach.For that matter it also gathered that many a years different species of Turtles were regular visitors.But they stopped visiting, it seems,they feared becoming the victims of poachers who are cruel human beings who do not spare the most innocent slowly crawling creatures of the God.BE KIND TO ANIMALS!THEY HELP US IN MANY WAYS!OFFER THEM HELP IN RETURN!!!. SreedharanMundanat 30th JULY2013(19-03Hrs IST)