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16%OFFJames R. Spotila - Sea Turtles: A Complete Guide to Their Biology, Behavior, and Conservation - 9780801880070 - V9780801880070
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Sea Turtles: A Complete Guide to Their Biology, Behavior, and Conservation

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Description for Sea Turtles: A Complete Guide to Their Biology, Behavior, and Conservation Hardback. Illustrated with stunning color photographs by the world's leading nature photographers, Sea Turtles will inform and inspire readers of all ages everywhere. Num Pages: 240 pages, 117, 110 colour illustrations, 7 maps. BIC Classification: PSVW5. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 285 x 242 x 23. Weight in Grams: 1346.
For more than a hundred million years, sea turtles have been swimming in the world's oceans. These magnificent, long-lived creatures spend their lives in the water, coming ashore to lay their eggs. Upon hatching, the baby turtles leave the nest and enter a dangerous world of storms and predators. The females will return to the same beach to lay their own eggs when they reach maturity a decade later. Today, there are seven species of sea turtle: the grass-eating green turtle; the sea sponge-eating hawksbill; the olive ridley; the Kemp's ridley, which is the smallest species; the loggerhead; the flatback ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
240
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
Baltimore, MD, United States
ISBN
9780801880070
SKU
V9780801880070
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-50

About James R. Spotila
James R. Spotila holds the Betz Chair of Environmental Science at Drexel University, where he is also director of the Center for Biodiversity and Conservation. Dr. Spotila is a leading ecologist and physiologist who has written more than 100 articles published in leading scientific journals and helped create the field of biophysical ecology. One of the world's leading authorities ... Read more

Reviews for Sea Turtles: A Complete Guide to Their Biology, Behavior, and Conservation
In this comprehensive guide, [Spotila] treats in detail the seven species: green turtles, hawksbills, olive ridleys, Kemp's ridleys, loggerheads, flatbacks, and leatherbacks. Each chapter includes tables of data on where the species is found, population estimates of colonies, and, in some cases, a chronology of conservation efforts... Spotila, fittingly, offers vignettes of conservation projects that provide human interest... Spotila's book ... Read more

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