Which raises the obvious question: what else do these turtles want from us, anyway?
At present, if too many turtles are inadvertently caught in Hawaiian waters, the entire fishery is closed down.
Unlike us (who only have one child), many 'sea turtles' have two or three kids and some also need a bilingual daycare center.
Back in the town we are sad to see stuffed turtles and live sea horses for sale in plastic bags. It reminds me of solitary goldfish at the funfair.
Gibbs: Aye, sea turtles.
That means it might represent a stage of gradual evolution of turtles from freshwater to the sea, and the study of its ecology can help to understand the evolution of Marine turtles.
Endangered sea turtles now swim the same water where, three months ago, humans rescued them from the toxic soup created by the BP spill spewing oil deep below.
The heartbreak for conservationists is that the convergence of sargassum and oil offers the best chance of finding young turtles before they suffocate on the crude. But it can also be deadly.
You can pick the fish, shellfish (RMB8), shrimp (RMB48) and turtles from the tank.
Scientists have been puzzled for decades by how turtles manage to navigate across the Atlantic, but now they know.
Every mating season, he says, the turtles leave their home and breeding ground in the salt marshes near JFK and take to the nearby sandy, open areas to lay their eggs and bury them in the ground.
A talkative turtle overheard two hunters say that they were planning to catch turtles the very next day.
The sunsets at Las Lisa's, with its vast sky and open sea, are serious spectacles to behold, and beneath the setting of that fireball sun, a hundred or so newborn turtles were waiting to face a fierce and unforgiving world.
Flotillas of crimson leaves sailed by downstream, andstripe-necked musk turtles swam over to survey us as we counted fish.
In fine weather you can find many green turtles reposing on the sand.
He USES oils extracted from lizards and turtles, the dried tongues of certain fish, coyote skin, eggs, chickens, holy water from the church and less-than-holy water from the lake.
The turtles were cleaned and cared for at the Audubon Nature Institute outside New Orleans.
It was these sharks that would cut the turtles' legs and flippers off when the turtles were asleep on the surface, and they would hit a man in the water, if they were hungry, even if the man had no smell of fish blood nor of fish slime on him.
From the polar bears of arctic Svalbard to the sea turtles of the Mediterranean, from the wild bison of Poland to the snow-covered glaciers of the Caucasus.
