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olive ridley sea turtle

Lepidochelys olivacea

Description:

Small turtles going out from the nest.

Habitat:

The olive ridley turtle has a circumtropical distribution living in tropical and warm waters of the Pacific and India Oceans from India, Arabia, Japan, and Micronesia south to southern Africa, Australia, and New Zealand.

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7 Comments

Tere R
Tere R 11 years ago

Thank you Chistiane.

Christiane
Christiane 11 years ago

WOW.. so cute. I have moved it to "REPTILES"..

Tere R
Tere R 11 years ago

Tank you for your comments, I appreciated .

misako
misako 11 years ago

cute!

PatriciaPi
PatriciaPi 11 years ago

love it!

MaryEvans2
MaryEvans2 11 years ago

Wonderful spotting - would love to have been there to witness this!

Ava T-B
Ava T-B 11 years ago

Neat series! Looks like hard work getting out of the sand and into the water.

Tere R
Spotted by
Tere R

Colima, Mexico

Spotted on Jan 6, 2009
Submitted on May 4, 2012

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