Turtle trip
A female Olive Ridley Turtle has surprised scientists. The turtle has decided to travel 3,500 km from Odisha to Guhagar Beach in Maharashtra. It was believed that turtles on the eastern and west coasts make their nests for breeding at different places but this long journey of this female turtle has proved this idea wrong. Scientists have said that this is very surprising.
Why did the turtle do such a long journey
This year, the nest building season was very good, so she traveled so long. This is the first time scientists have seen so. But it seems that she must have come on this coast several times in the last few years and when breeding was needed, and especially she has breed a double nesting, it is more surprising that she chose this place for nesting. Explain that double nesting occurs when the female turtle lays eggs twice in a single reproductive season and makes the female turtle nest to lay eggs.
Female turtle trip
What is the name of this turtle
The name of this turtle is 03233, which is its tag number which has been identified. The turtle was tagged by Dr. Basudev Tripathi, a senior scientist at the Zoological Survey of India (ZSI), on March 18, 2021 during the activity of building a collective nest on Gahirmatha Beach in Odisha and on January 27 this year, the scientists were surprised when the same tortoise was found when the same tortoise was found to be nesting on Guhagar Beach.
Olive Ridley Turtle visit
A team of Mangrov Foundation in Maharashtra saw the turtle laying eggs at night. When he went to him after building the nest, he saw that he was already tagged on him which was from Odisha. The tag is applied on the turtle’s back so that it could be identified.
Turtle laid 120 eggs on Ratnagiri Beach
In this way it was revealed that the turtle traveled at least 3500 km from east to west coast. Olive Ridley Turtles nest on several beaches from December to March. However, it has been recorded for the first time that a turtle nested on two different beaches at the same time and traveled between them. He first built a nest on Odisha Beach and then a nest on Maharashtra Beach. Scientists say that the turtle must have pursued the way from Odisha to Sri Lanka, and then from there to Ratnagiri in Maharashtra. There this turtle laid 120 eggs, out of which 107 children came out.
Turtle children
Nesting will be done on Odisha coast before Ratnagiri
According to Dr. Suresh Kumar, senior scientist at the Wildlife Institute of India, the turtle must have done double nesting. The female turtle built a nest at a collective nest site in Odisha and then traveled to Maharashtra to build more and more children alone. It was already believed that turtles are very loyal to their nests. However, the new information received by applying the tag has proved this to be wrong.
Female turtle surprised
Sea turtles do nesting
Since it is not possible for turtles to build a nest in the sea, the turtles who live in the sea come to the sea shore to lay eggs and make their nests on the coast. Olive Ridley falls in a species of turtles that build mass nests. Creating collective nest means large amounts of female turtles lay eggs on the same beach together and this number of eggs occurs in thousands.
3500 km travel of olive ridel turtle
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