Olive ridley nesting season started around December along the coast of Chennai, India. The hatchlings have started to emerge and this is the first release from the Students' Sea Turtle Conservation Network (SSTCN) Hatchery. For viewing a small footage posted by a friend (Sidharth)... click the image above.
The video below is a quick primer on the turtle hatching program in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, where the turtles nest even during the early morning hours and hatchlings emerge during the day... probably a nature's mechanism for regulating their sex ratio. (The sex of hatchlings is decided by the temperature in the area during incubation. If the temperature is below -29.5 degrees Celsius the offspring will be mainly male!). Personally feel this video could be used as a good educational tool.
Courtesy: Mark Lee Read, a sailor in US of A.
The video below is another interesting one on Olive Ridley turtle (Lepidochelys olivacea) nesting during the day in Ostional beach, Pacific coast of Costa Rica. This short video by World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) illustrates the nesting process of this endangered species.
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