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Sea turtles rely on the temperature of the sand in which the eggs incubate for the embryo to develop. The nest temperature should be between 24 and 33 ° C, since below or above this range, no embryo is likely to survive to hatch.
Banco de Imagens Projeto TAMAR2015
TAMAR
Mata de São João, Brazil
Due to natural factors, only one or two in every thousand hatchlings survive to adulthood. Even if a turtle is safe at birth, it is at sea where the majority of problems that they are challenged to face, happen.
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- Title: Sea turtles rely on the temperature of the sand in which the eggs incubate for the embryo to develop. The nest temperature should be between 24 and 33 ° C, since below or above this range, no embryo is likely to survive to hatch.
- Creator: Banco de Imagens Projeto TAMAR
- Date Created: 2015
- Location: Praia do Forte, Bahia, Brasil
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