View Single Post
  #212  
Old 02-26-2010, 08:03 PM
The Lone Ranger's Avatar
The Lone Ranger The Lone Ranger is offline
Jin, Gi, Rei, Ko, Chi, Shin, Tei
 
Join Date: Jul 2004
Posts: MXDXCIX
Default Re: A Question For The Lone Ranger

In most sea turtle species, since the eggs in a given nest are all laid at once, they tend to hatch at pretty-much the same time. But the youngsters do coordinate their emergence. It usually takes them 3 - 7 days to dig to the surface, and then they'll wait until nightfall and all emerge at once. (Presumably, this decreases their chances of being seen and captured by predators.)


Cheers,

Michael
__________________
“The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.”
-- Socrates
Reply With Quote
Thanks, from:
JoeP (02-26-2010), LadyShea (02-26-2010)
 
Page generated in 0.68204 seconds with 10 queries