Loggerhead Sea Turtles
Endoscopic evaluation of the esophagus and stomach in three loggerhead sea turtles (Caretta caretta) and a malaysian giant turtle (Orlitia borneensis)
... The esophagus and the stomach in all the turtles were easily examined endoscopically and were of uniform appearance in the loggerhead sea turtles. Although we cannot be certain that the ...
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Pharmacokinetics of oxytetracycline in loggerhead sea turtles (Caretta caretta) after single intravenous and intramuscular injections
... there were mean terminal half-lives of 74 and 131 hr after i.v. and i.m. administration, respectively. There appeared to be a more sustained slow release from i.m. injection in alligators. The major differ- ence between ...
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Multi-year tracking reveals extensive pelagic phase of juvenile loggerhead sea turtles in the North Pacific
... Pacific loggerhead sea turtles travel long distances and across entire ocean basins to reach developmental for- aging grounds, yet connectivity between east-west move- ments has remained ...juvenile ...
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Pharmacokinetics of florfenicol in loggerhead sea turtles (Caretta caretta) after single intravenous and intramuscular injections
... yearling loggerhead sea turtles (Caretta caretta) were ...juvenile loggerhead sea turtles weighing ...in sea turtles when administered at these ...
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Clinical ultrasonography in loggerhead sea turtles (Caretta caretta): imaging of pathological features
... in sea turtles. Scans were carried out in 19 loggerhead sea turtles, weighing from 2 to 21 kg, during the course of clinical examinations using ...placing turtles in dorsal ...
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Ontogenetic investigation of underwater hearing capabilities in loggerhead sea turtles (Caretta caretta) using a dual testing approach
... Sea turtles reside in different acoustic environments with each life history stage and may have different hearing capacity throughout ...juvenile loggerhead sea turtles Caretta caretta ...
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Simulating transoceanic migrations of young loggerhead sea turtles: merging magnetic navigation behavior with an ocean circulation model
... Young loggerhead sea turtles (Caretta caretta) from eastern Florida, USA, undertake a transoceanic migration in which they gradually circle the Sargasso Sea before returning to the North ...
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Deciphering function of the pulmonary arterial sphincters in loggerhead sea turtles (Caretta caretta)
... five loggerhead sea turtles that had drowned or were euthanized by the attending veterinarian owing to severe injuries after fisheries interactions along the Valencian ...in sea ...
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BLOOD BIOCHEMISTRY REFERENCE VALUES FOR WILD JUVENILE LOGGERHEAD SEA TURTLES (CARETTA CARETTA) FROM MADEIRA ARCHIPELAGO
... juvenile loggerhead sea turtles Caretta caretta living offshore Madeira Island, northeast ...sex, sea surface temperature, and body condition index on biochemical parameters including uric ...
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Pharmacokinetics of fluconazole in loggerhead sea turtles (Caretta caretta) after single intravenous and subcutaneous injections, and multiple subcutaneous injections
... ill sea turtles, which places growing importance on the establishment of pharmacokinetic-based dosage regimens for antifungal ...juvenile loggerhead sea turtles (Caretta caretta) housed ...
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Magnetic navigation behavior and the oceanic ecology of young loggerhead sea turtles
... hatchling loggerhead sea turtles (Caretta caretta) respond to magnetic fields that exist at five widely separated locations along their migratory route, and then studied the consequences of the ...
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GEOMAGNETIC ORIENTATION OF LOGGERHEAD SEA TURTLES: EVIDENCE FOR AN INCLINATION COMPASS
... hatchling loggerhead sea turtles can orient using the earth’s magnetic ...the loggerhead magnetic compass, we tested the orientation of hatchlings tethered inside a circular arena surrounded ...
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Activity, not submergence, explains diving heart rates of captive loggerhead sea turtles
... We thank Takuya Fukuoka, Misaki Yamane and Chihiro Kinoshita for their assistance in the field. We also thank Tomoko Narazaki for valuable input on the initial design of the experiment, and James Hicks, Allyson Hindle, ...
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The ontogenetic scaling of bite force and head size in loggerhead sea turtles (Caretta caretta): implications for durophagy in neritic, benthic habitats
... systems. Loggerhead sea turtles are long-lived vertebrates with complex life histories that are marked by an ontogenetic shift from an oceanic habitat to a coastal neritic habitat, and a transition ...
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Forelimb kinematics and motor patterns of swimming loggerhead sea turtles (Caretta caretta): are motor patterns conserved in the evolution of new locomotor strategies?
... of loggerhead sea turtles, we were not permitted to follow experiments with verification dissections that would have required sacrifice of study ...
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Orientation of hatchling loggerhead sea turtles to regional magnetic fields along a transoceanic migratory pathway
... Young loggerhead sea turtles ( Caretta caretta ) from the east coast of Florida, USA, undertake a transoceanic migration around the North Atlantic Gyre, the circular current system that flows around ...
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Perception of airborne odors by loggerhead sea turtles
... to sea turtles in at least two naturally occurring ...First, turtles navigating into the vicinity of remote islands, used as nesting sites, might be able to perceive the targets from considerable ...
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Spatial distribution and residency of green and loggerhead sea turtles using coastal reef habitats in southern Mozambique
... of loggerhead, green and unidentified turtles, species were pooled for this analysis and records of hawksbill (n = 11) and leatherback (n = 2) were removed from the ...
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ACQUISITION OF MAGNETIC DIRECTIONAL PREFERENCE IN HATCHLING LOGGERHEAD SEA TURTLES
... While circling, turtles spend equal amounts of time in all parts of the arena and do not manifest directional preferences. Analyses were therefore based on oriented swimming periods using procedures described ...
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Magnetic orientation by hatchling loggerhead sea turtles (Caretta caretta)
... At the completion of all experiments, the mean angles of turtles swimming in the geomagnetic and reversed fields were analyzed to determine whether: 1 each group was significantly orient[r] ...
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