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Turtles & Tortoise
Adventures of Lilo the Green Sea Turtle - Follow along as Lilo the green sea turtle makes her way throughout the islands of Hawaii. To help her continue the journey, you will have to answer questions about sharks, pollution, ghost nets, and many more topics. Luckily there are lots of resources to help you find the answers. This site was created by students for the ThinkQuest Junior competition.
California Turtle and Tortoise Club - When Net-mom was little, she read her King James Version of the Bible and saw in Song of Solomon 2:12 the following verse about spring: "The flowers appear on the earth; the time of the singing is come, and the voice of the turtle is heard in our land." Well Net-mom could not understand it, because her pet turtles never seemed to make any noise. (Years later, Net-mom figured out it was supposed to be an abbreviation for the turtledove, and the Revised Standard Version bears this out. Duhhh.) However, should you want to hear the real voices of real turtles, just visit this page, click on Tortoise Calls, and turn up your speakers. There is also an exhaustive selection of links and care sheets.
Cayman Islands Turtle Farm - Welcome to the Cayman Turtle Farm Website. As well as our widely popular Webcams, you will find a wealth of educational and scientific information about the Turtle farm and it's inhabitants. We hope that you have the opportunity to visit us in the Cayman Islands, but until that time, we invite you to our home on the Web.
Galapagos Giant Tortoise - Galapagos giant tortoises are the largest tortoises in the world. Giant tortoises in general are the longest-lived of all vertebrates (animals with backbones). We're not sure just how long they can live, but it's possible that some of the old-timers in the Galapagos today hatched about the time of Darwin's visit. Learn more here!
Love and Death on Turtle Beach - Scientists estimate that only one in 2,500 turtle hatchlings makes it to maturity. That means a lot of others are eaten by predators, entangled in nets, or don't survive for other reasons. Learn all you can about leatherback turtles at this site and associated links; then try the quiz to see if you can get all five of your hatchlings safely to the water. If you get a question wrong, one baby turtle is removed from the game.
Reslider's Swamp - This site has extensive information on caring for pet red-eared sliders, a common type of turtle for sale in pet stores. You'll learn that they need cuttlefish bones to sharpen their "beaks," that raw meat is bad but live crickets and guppies are OK, and that it's important to filter the water in which your turtle is kept. There's a lot more to visit here in Reslider's Swamp: links to info about other species of turtles, a turtle cam, and more. Slide on in, the water's fine!
Turtle Trax - Did you know that all species of marine turtles are either threatened or endangered? That's right, and a major reason for this is danger to their nests. These dangers include increased numbers of people on the beaches where the turtles dig their nests. Also, some people dig up the nests and sell or eat turtle eggs. Another problem is artificial lighting around beaches, which has a disorienting effect on little turtles--they can't find the safety of the sea. In addition to the nesting threats, don't forget about the environmental threats to turtles, which include water pollution and getting stuck in floating trash. These are just some of the most serious threats. For more information about marine turtles, their environment, and ways you can help, visit this page. The Kidz Corner has some wonderful true stories. And don't miss the series of pictures from the Amazingly Way Cool BogusCamTM. (Hint: Keep loading them--you'll get a surprise!) To find these treasures, click the Contents page.
Turtles of the World - Turtles of the World's ultimate goal is to support a near-real-time database of all freshwater turtles and tortoises in the world (approximately 263 known species). Conceptually, turtle researchers, museums, collectors, and other turtle enthusiasts would be able to contribute to and retrieve reference information from the database.
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