Babies turtle on instinct

Turtle is one of the reptile family categories grew up with carapace and leave into the sea, from seven species of them on migration live to find feeding ground, and choose the beach to lay eggs at the night, and the place which comfort on processed to lay eggs.  1 to 3 hours.

Sea turtle has susceptible with predator and disturbance, threat for their nest. sea turtle will use their paddle to dig the sand creating their hole for incubating their nest with 60 cm deep, with help back paddle flipper to close the nest to protect from other disturbance of predator, totally 80 to 150 turtle eggs can be release by female turtle in one night, on nesting season sea turtle can come to beach with 5 time to make their nest. After all, proceed sea turtle will back and leave the nest until they hatchling by their self.

Baby sea turtle hatchling will help by sand temperature to creating their gender male or female, from warm nest with more sun temperature most of the eggs hatch with male baby’s turtle, in other side lower temperature most hatch with female 

Small turtle will hatchling after 45 days to 60 days directly to find the direction to the sea by their instinct to lead their step to bright place or lower place according the scientist say that sea turtle has the instinct record area with magnetoreception which remind them to come back to same area on turtle season after their long migration to lay eggs 

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