Travel Bug Dog Tag Pink Travelling Turtle (PTT)

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Owner:
Sonnetjie Send Message to Owner Message this owner
Released:
Saturday, November 27, 2010
Origin:
Gauteng, South Africa
Recently Spotted:
In Thanks to Ger and Bak

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Current Goal

The Pink Travelling Turtle (PTT) would like to travel the world as fast as  his cousin the Leatherback Turtle Happy travelling!

  • taking a picture of the TB at a cache - 5 points per picture per cache
  • taking the TB to a different cache (dipping is allowed!) - 5 points per cache and 20 points per cacher
  • 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. 

About This Item

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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Write note 11/27/2010 Sonnetjie posted a note for it   Visit Log

Placed it in 2010 Christmas and Year-End Celebration.
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