Olive Ridleys get their name from the coloring of their heart-shaped shell, which starts out gray but becomes olive green once the turtles are adult. Hatchlings are dark gray with a pale yolk scar, but appear all black when wet. Carapace length ranges from 37 to 50 mm. Olive Ridleys are omnivorous, meaning that they consume a varied diet from both plant and animal sources. Distribution Although Olive Ridleys spend time in the open ocean, they also forage in coastal waters and estuaries.Olive Ridley turtles are found only in warmer waters, including the southern Atlantic, Pacific and Indian oceans.
Adults tend to eat sea grass and algae. Green Sea Turtles who live in aquariums are fed romaine lettuce, gel food made from algae, and a balanced mixture of essential vitamins and minerals. Unlike regular turtles, a green sea turtle’s shell has evolved so that they can propel through waters at a great speed when needed. Their front flippers help them to do so, as well. A green sea turtle’s carapace has a mottled brown top with a creamy white color under its shell; which is often covered in algal growth.
This species has diverse color variations. The base color is usually brown to white and the tentacles may or may not have magenta, purple, or green tips on its long tapering tentacles. The tentacles may occasionally develop a bubble-like appearance to them. It prefers to bury its base in the sand or into the crevice of a rock for protection. The Condy Anemone requires
Predators eat animals they have killed. As an example, lobsters are predatory. Crabs, on the over hand, can be predators, herbivores or scavengers. They use their large claws to attack the prey. The crusher claws are used to
Excluding the occasional feeding frenzy, white tips also eat a diet that consists mostly of cephalopods. However, its diet can be far more varied and less selective—it is known to eat threadfins, stingrays, sea turtles, birds, gastropods, crustaceans, mammalian carrion, and even rubbish dumped from ships. It has a unique Mating season is in early summer in the northwest Atlantic Ocean and southwest Indian Ocean. Once the female is pregnant then the gestation period is one year. Litter sizes vary from one to 15 with White Tips are a commercially important animal to humans seeing as how its fins are used for shark fin soup and its meat and oils utilized for consumption, its hides are often used for leather as well.
The most dangerous species of jellyfish is the box jellyfish, which is widely known as the sea wasp as well. This type of jellyfish is the most poisonous animal in the world. The box jellyfish belongs to the class Cubozoa. Their tentacles are usually several feet long, and their body has a box-like shape to it and can be as small as a few millimeters in diameter to the size of a
deep) off the coasts of the Gulf of Mexico all the way down to Brazil, in the Amazonian River Basins, around the islands of Cuba, Haiti and Puerto Rico, as well as along the central west and east coasts of Africa, up the Nile and down to Madagascar. The West Indian/Florida manatees currently inhabit the warm sub-tropical waters along the coast of Florida (as far north as the Carolinas and west along the coast of Louisiana and Texas). Though their range is quite large, manatees today exist in only a few small populations due to centuries of hunting them for meat and hides, coastal development and boating, and environmental changes. It is currently estimated that there are only about 2,200 manatees remaining in the US. They have no natural enemies except man and power boats which are responsible for most manatee deaths- (in 1990, 218 manatees or 12 % of the total population were killed by boats), though the red tide (toxins released from the bloom of dinoflagellates) of 1982 and1996 killed over 15% of the population.
The buoyancy allows the cuttlefish to hover over the floor of the oceans. The siphuncle is highly modified, running on the ventral side of the shell. Although the cuttlebone is unique to the cuttlefish, it does have a minor set back. Between the depth of 200 and 600 meters the cuttlebone can implode. Because of this factor cuttlefish have adapted to the seafloor in shallow marine waters as their habitat.
Some manta rays live in a particular location while others travel from places to places. Manta rays are filter feeders. They consume a large quantity of zooplankton by filter seawater through their mouths while swimming. And usually many manta rays swim in lines with their mouths open to filter more zooplankton. Manta rays are huge in size so only sharks and killer whales can harm them and eat them.
Polyp discharges a hard skeleton that protects them from predators. The majority of corals have a symbiotic relationship with zooxanthellae, also known as algae. Algae