What we don't know about those wonderful creatures, the Turtles?

.............Those distinguished fascinating creatures are facing a great danger of extinction because of the great losses in numbers, difficulty of reproduction and humans’ destructive environmental interference. Turtles eat soft corals and jelly fish it is why the plastic bags for example are responsible for killing around 45% of the turtles in the Red sea of the lost turtles each year, as they think it can be jelly fish and eat them. As well waists of boats and cities lies near by the Red sea cause big harm to the turtles. A turtle can live very long time, but first needs to survive in the very tough conditions as it goes out of the egg. Female turtles make the meeting in the sea but after should search for a beach to lay the eggs. Furthermore some reports say that turtles lay eggs in the same place that they have been laid at. They crawl until they get above the high tide mark (a place water level doesn't reach), then they start an uncoordinated digging to be able to get into the hole they dig. After it succeed, it takes a rest for a while then start another digging but only with it hind flippers to make a Brood chamber to lay the eggs in. After it takes another quick rest then start a rather fast laying for eggs (80-120 depends on kind), like so, eggs are felling in the brood chamber but never break due to the leathery covering surrounding it. At this time turtles never respond to what ever happens beside. They continue laying eggs without interruption. When the laid of the eggs is done they cover it again with sand and have some rest again before the trip back to the sea. However, usually this takes longer time to reach the sea as they lost a lot of energy during laying the eggs. But they are pretty sure they have done well with laying.

Baby turtles hatch after one to two months (depends on the kind as well) crawling directly after hatching towards the sea instinctively. They use one-time-only purpose tooth which is on the tip of their mouth (egg tooth) to get out of the egg which they lose it after hatching directly. In most cases the babies hatch at night, crawl to the surface, orient to the ocean and crawl to the water. In some cases the babies hatch in the day and they may go to sleep until it is night before they emerge from the sand. Sometimes the babies emerge in the middle of the day and then they are easy prey for birds flying over the beaches..... They can loose around 50-60% of their numbers in this short migration. The same on land as into the sea, they can be easy prey for big fishes and marine predators. Only 2-3% make it to adulthood and can be able to come back for nesting. After all the man is the greatest danger threatening turtles as they construct facilities and build on these beaches ............................. Really poor turtles! Lets all try to help them letting them the beaches to lay their eggs peacefully.