How To Use Leatherback In A Sentence
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What adaptations do leatherback turtles have that could make balloons and grocery bags dangerous to them?
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Globally, there has been a sharp overall decline in leatherbacks over the past 15 years.
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My research focus is on the decline and potential extinction of loggerhead and leatherback sea turtles in the Pacific Ocean.
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Have students work in groups to create board games featuring the life of a leatherback turtle.
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The most distinguishing morphological characteristics of leatherbacks are their large size and dark color.
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In 1988, a leatherback was found measuring nine feet in length and weighing nearly 2,000 pounds.
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In the last five years, nests also have been documented for the rare Kemp's ridley and leatherback sea turtles.
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An ancient animal that swam with pliosaurs 100 million years ago, and whose numbers once were so vast they could impede ships, the leatherback is among the most endangered of sea turtles.
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But scientists have documented a precipitous decline of the Pacific leatherback in the past two decades.
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Oceana's scientists attribute the Mediterranean invasion partly to the overfishing of jellyfish predators there, including moonfish, triggerfish, and leatherback turtles, which are often caught accidentally as bycatch.
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Scientists have appealed for international cooperation to protect leatherback sea turtles.
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The coloration of the leatherback, dark above and lighter below, is typical of open-ocean inhabitants.
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It is possible that year-round foraging by leatherbacks has increased as a response to increased jellyfish.
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It has been reported that the leatherback is one of two turtles that are toxic to humans and other animals.
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Thousands of leatherbacks nested at Playa Grande 10 years ago but the number has dropped to below 100 in the last five years.
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The leatherback turtle has survived for more than a hundred million years, but is now facing extinction.
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The leatherback frogmen of the NYPD Scuba Squad patrol a hellish world beyond noir, where body parts abound, the water's filthy, and mob victims wear concrete shoes.
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Another reason for arriving at night and stepping very carefully is that you might encounter a leatherback or hawksbill turtle coming ashore to lay her eggs.
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Both the leatherback and loggerhead turtle could face extinction within 10 to 30 years if international fishing practices are not dramatically altered, he added.
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In the last few minutes I've seen twice as many leatherbacks in the water as were using this beach all last year.
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Probably the first thing concerned citizens think of when the word ‘endangered’ pops up is an animal: the California condor, the giant panda, the bowhead whale, the leatherback sea turtle.
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Monney had never seen a sea turtle before Dec. 17, when he caught a glimpse of the leatherback — estimated weight 1, 700 pounds — and an olive ridley the same night.
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Instead of cod, haddock and herring, you could pick up seahorses, red snappers, and leatherback turtles.
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Scientists are not sure how long it takes leatherback turtles to mature or how long they live.
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Longlines in the Pacific catch 63% of the leatherbacks in the Pacific each year and kill 10%.
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At about this time, female leatherback turtles, heavy with eggs, approach the coast of Central Africa.
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I just read an article on the Leatherback Turtle, a sea beasty that can get very large and has a habit of lazing about on the surface, pretending to be a tiny island.
WMAMing it up.
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Scientists estimate in about ten years all leatherback turtles in the Pacific Ocean may be gone.
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Unlike other turtles, the leatherback has no visible shell; instead, it has a carapace made up of hundreds of irregular bony plates, covered with a leathery skin.
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Scientists and conservationists called on Pacific countries Friday to step up efforts to protect leatherback turtles that are on the brink of extinction.
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Since 2001, areas north of Point Conception to an intersect with the Oregon coast has been closed to drift gillnet fishing from August 15th through November 15th in order to protect endangered leatherback and loggerhead sea turtles.
Permit to Kill Pacific Sea Turtles and Whales Requested by Seafood Company
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The journey, tracked by satellite, provides the first record of a trans-Pacific migration by a leatherback.
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This fishery which targets swordfish with drift gillnet gear, has had no recorded takes of leatherback sea turtles during the past three years.
Permit to Kill Pacific Sea Turtles and Whales Requested by Seafood Company
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Within the U.S., the leatherback is known to nest in Southeastern Florida, Culebra, Puerto Rico, and St. Croix.
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The adult leatherback can reach 4 to 8 feet in length and 500 to 2000 pounds in weight.
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Reptiles, inhabit, species, leatherback, flipper, lung, shell, predator, hatch.
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Leatherbacks are well-known for two remarkable features: their ability to survive in arctic and subarctic waters and their deep sea diving ability.
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Research suggests that longlines take hundreds of thousands of leatherbacks and other turtles each year.
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And what more, Mike tells me that he observes similar surfacing behavior in leatherbacks in Nova Scotian waters where he works… amazing!
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He leaned back in his leatherback chair, and puffed out his Cuban cigar, sending the smoke coiling up to the ceiling.
