Thanks Nikhil for sharing as part of the I am a Young Zoologist Badge Programme
1)This is the green sea turtle.
1. They think jellyfish are delicious.
Leatherbacks and hawkbill turtles feed on jellyfish and keep their populations in check. Plastic looks like jellyfish when it's floating in the water and that's why so many turtles die from ingesting plastic—they were going for a tasty snack.
2.They cannot retract into their shell like other turtles.
Since they don't have to protect themselves from predators for most of their life on water, sea turtles cannot retract their flippers and head into their shells. Their anatomy makes them more agile when under the sea but highly vulnerable when nesting and hatching.
3.Temperature dictates the sex of baby turtles.
Warmer nests lead to more females and cooler ones lead to more males—which is why climate change could drastically affect their populations by creating too many females and too few males to match them for reproduction.
2)This is the sea nettle.
1.Their mouth is located on the underside of their Bell.
2.Sea nettles can grow and reach 15 feet long they swim by expanding.
3.sea nettles live for about 6 months.
This is a Indo-pacific bottle nose dolphin.
1.It has a fusiform body, a large dorsal fin, small head, and face that narrows from the base.
2.Compared to other mammals, the dolphin has more red blood cells and 29 times more myoglobin (muscle protein).
3.The length of its skull is shorter compared to the bottlenose dolphin. Size and weight. It is a small dolphin whose average length is 2.6 meters being males slightly larger than females.
Why is marine habitat conservation important ?
Oceans generate half of the oxygen we breathe and, at any given moment, they contain more than 97% of the world's water. Oceans provide at least a sixth of the animal protein people eat. Living oceans absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and reduce climate change impacts.
