Leatherback Turtles' Newly Discovered Migration Route May Be Roadmap To Salvation
Saturday, July 19, 2008 - 19:21
in Biology & Nature
A major effort to tag and track leatherbacks that nest on the Pacific coast of Costa Rica has yielded unprecedented insight into their behavior. While most sea turtles have widely varied dispersal patterns, the leatherbacks from the beaches at Playa Grande consistently follow a relatively narrow corridor out into the sea, past the Galapagos Islands to an area in the South Pacific where they linger at length.