Pink Travelling Turtle (PTT)
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Owner:
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Sonnetjie
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Released:
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Saturday, November 27, 2010
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Origin:
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Gauteng, South Africa
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Recently Spotted:
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In Thanks to Ger and Bak
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The Pink Travelling Turtle (PTT) would like to travel the world as fast as his cousin the Leatherback Turtle Happy travelling!
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taking a picture of the TB at a cache - 5 points per picture per cache
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taking the TB to a different cache (dipping is allowed!) - 5 points per cache and 20 points per cacher
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moving the TB long distances - 1 point per 100km.
For more information, have a look at the
detailed race rules on the
Official Race Website.
Leather-back sea turtles are more evolutionarily advanced than all other sea turtles alive today.
They have no vestigial claws on their flippers, and their shells are covered in a thick layer of fat and skin, which help insulate them in Arctic waters. Along their backs run vertically aliened ridges that help streamline these reptilian super-tankers, who dive deeper than most whales, to depths of over 2,000 feet.
These
living dinosaurs can stay underwater for up to an hour, and eat their body weight in jellyfish each day, which is a good thing because warming seas have resulted in huge jellyfish swarms that endanger popular bathing beaches around the worldLeatherbacks undertake the longest migrations between breeding and feeding areas of any sea turtle, averaging 3,700 miles (6,000 kilometers) each way.
The temperature inside the nest determines the sex of the hatchlings. A mix of male and female hatchlings occurs when the nest temperature is approximately 85.1 degrees Fahrenheit (29.5 degrees Celsius), while higher temperatures produce females and cooler temperatures produce males. Female hatchlings that make it to sea will roam the oceans until they reach sexual maturity, when they return to the same nesting areas to produce their own offspring. Males spend the rest of their lives at sea.
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