Amazing Sea Turtles!

Hi its Cassowarygirl and today were learning about SEA TURTLES!

Sea turtles have so many amazing things about them!

Its dangerous in the corral reefs with all those white tipped reef sharks. The sea turtles have a very very strong and hard shell that sea turtles actually use as shields. If the shark gets a fin or tail in its mouth the turtle is done for! The turtles turn their shell to face the shark so the shark will bite the shell not the turtle. But if that doesn't work, the turtle has another plan – the turtle will find a crack in the coral or rocks that it can fit in. The shark cannot fit inside the crack – it swims away. The turtle stays in the crack – the shark could still be around. When the turtle is sure that that the shark is gone, he goes out of the crack and the swims away. 

Sea turtles are great swimmers! They use they use their front flippers to swim through the water and their back flippers to turn and change directions. They don't have a rounded shell like a land tortoise, they have more of a flat shell so the water goes over the shell easily.

Sea turtles are reptiles, so they have to come to the surface to breath. The Hawksbill Turtle puts its snout out of the water – it just breaths through its nostrils.

Sea turtles eat many different things. Some like the green sea turtle eat sea grass. Some turtles like the leatherback sea turtle eat jellyfish. But the hawksbill turtle is the only sea turtle that eats sea sponges.

Some sea turtles eat jellyfish

This green sea turtle is eating sea grass

People are killing sea turtles for their shells – its really sad. It doesn't matter what type of sea turtle it is – all species of sea turtle are endangered. Sea turtles have been around for millions of years. It be a very very sad sad thing if the sea turtles became extinct forever.

And if you want to help sea turtles, you can donate to the World Wildlife Fund.
Go to http://www.wwf.ca/donate/

Bye bye!
Cassowarygirl
 

Baby sea turtles are cute!