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  2. Magnetoreception - Wikipedia

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    The map in sea turtles was the first ever described though similar abilities have now been reported in lobsters, fish, and birds. [48] Magnetoreception by land turtles was shown in a 2010 experiment on Terrapene carolina, a box turtle. After teaching a group of these box turtles to swim to either the east or west end of an experimental tank, a ...

  3. File:Leatherback sea turtle Tinglar, USVI (5839996547).jpg

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    The following 25 pages use this file: Bahía Portete – Kaurrele National Natural Park; Biota of Trinidad and Tobago; Leatherback sea turtle; List of National Natural Landmarks in Virgin Islands

  4. Trichromacy - Wikipedia

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    Trichromatic color vision is the ability of humans and some other animals to see different colors, mediated by interactions among three types of color-sensing cone cells. The trichromatic color theory began in the 18th century, when Thomas Young proposed that color vision was a result of three different photoreceptor cells .

  5. Physiology of underwater diving - Wikipedia

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    The deepest diving sea turtle is the leatherback which can reach 1250 m depth, while the record for the longest dive goes to loggerheads (Caretta caretta) in the Mediterranean at more than 10 hours. For many hard-shelled sea turtles, depths visited on average (i.e. outside of overwintering) range from 2–54 m; for leatherbacks, this ranges up ...

  6. Leatherback sea turtle - Wikipedia

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    The leatherback sea turtle (Dermochelys coriacea), sometimes called the lute turtle, leathery turtle or simply the luth, is the largest of all living turtles and the heaviest non-crocodilian reptile, reaching lengths of up to 2.7 metres (8 ft 10 in) and weights of 500 kilograms (1,100 lb).

  7. 32 fun facts about pet turtles - AOL

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    Some tiny turtles may never grow more than 1.5in long, while the humungous leatherback turtle can reach lengths of up to 8ft 10 long and weigh 1,100lb. Most pet turtles are around 5–12in long. 21.

  8. Color vision - Wikipedia

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    Color vision is categorized foremost according to the dimensionality of the color gamut, which is defined by the number of primaries required to represent the color vision. This is generally equal to the number of photopsins expressed: a correlation that holds for vertebrates but not invertebrates .

  9. A large leatherback sea turtle got tangled in a lobster trap ...

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    A large leatherback sea turtle is swimming freely thanks to the efforts of a Florida fish and wildlife officer assigned to the Florida Keys.