By James R. Spotila,Pilar Santidrián Tomillo
ISBN-10: 1421417081
ISBN-13: 9781421417080
Weighing up to 2,000 kilos and achieving lengths of over seven toes, leatherback turtles are the world’s greatest reptile. those strange sea turtles have a thick, pliable shell that is helping them to resist nice depths—they can swim multiple thousand meters lower than the outside looking for nutrition. And what foodstuff resource sustains those goliaths? Their vitamin is composed nearly solely of jellyfish, a meal they crisscross the oceans to discover.
Leatherbacks were declining in contemporary many years, and a few are expecting they are going to be passed by the top of this century. Why? as a result of basic elements: human redevelopment of nesting shorelines and advertisement fishing. There are just twenty-nine index shorelines on the earth the place those turtles nest, and there's substantial strain to boost such a lot of them into houses or hotels. while, longline and gill internet fisheries proceed to weigh down waters frequented via leatherbacks.
In The Leatherback Turtle, James R. Spotila and Pilar Santidrián Tomillo compile the world’s top specialists to supply a quantity that unearths the biology of the leatherback whereas placing a focus at the conservation difficulties and options concerning the species. The e-book leaves us with techniques: embark at the conservation approach laid out inside of its pages and keep one in every of nature’s so much wonderful creations, or watch yet one more very good species disappear.
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