The health status of 83 loggerhead sea turtles (Caretta caretta; 39 foraging, 31 nesting, and 13 stranded turtles) was analyzed using physical examinations, hematology, plasma biochemistry, plasma protein electrophoresis, and toxicologic parameters. Significant differences were noted in a number of health parameters between turtles exhibiting each of these behaviors. On physical examinations, s...

Objective: Recently, Red-Eared turtles are kept as pets in Iranian houses; however, because of lack of knowledge about their caring, they are in risk of lots of diseases.  Turtles of all ages should be fed with a diet that contains a wide variety of both animal and plant based items but they are usually fed by one item diet which may make gastrointestinal (GI) sickness. They are also several ba...

Sea Turtles Sea turtles are one of the oldest extant groups of animals, and they have changed little in basic anatomy for millions of years. Sea turtles are found throughout the world, and depending on the species, range from warm tropical water to frigid oceans near the arctic. They can be herbivores, omnivores, or carnivores and can be quite large. For example, the largest species of sea turt...

It is important to understand the population structure and space use of sea turtles because of their potential effects on the dynamics of nearshore ecosystems. Much of our current understanding is skewed because the ecology of sea turtles on their foraging grounds is known best from areas where there are, or have been, major human impacts. We studied green Chelonia mydas and loggerhead Caretta ...

Illegal wildlife trade is a global threat to biodiversity, but its drivers and impacts ways combat it vary by taxa. News media framing of instances illegal provides novel window into understanding public perceptions these dynamics potential support for management actions. We used 54 known cases turtle in the United States occurring between 1998 2021 as case study investigate news this emergent ...

Anthropogenic environmental changes are hypothesized as main reasons for animal species population declines. Heavy metals contamination is one of the worst threats to animals among human-caused threats. As most of the heavy metals bioaccumulate in organisms, analyzing concentrations of heavy metals in long living animals, such as turtles, would be very useful for biomonitoring of environmental ...

Abstract Sea turtles have temperature-dependent sex determination. Because females are produced at high temperatures, increasing global temperature may lead to population feminization. Primary ratios (PSR) of sea turtle hatchlings naturally female-biased, but this translates into a more balanced operational ratio because male reproduce often than females. As consequence, PSR and the that produc...

Interactions between large marine predators and their prey are difficult to observe and little is known about the risk of predation faced by sea turtles. The frequency of predator-inflicted injuries, however, has afforded insights into the predation risk faced by many taxa. We measured the frequency of shark-inflicted injuries on green (Chelonia mydas) and loggerhead (Caretta caretta) sea turtl...

We propose Secure-Turtle, a secure nested virtual system based on Turtles system, which provides a secure execution environment for the L2 guest VM. In particular, Secure-Turtles system builds a trust chain from L0 host hypervisor, L1 guest hypervisor, qemu-kvm daemon to L2 guest VM. Through this security chain, Secure-Turtles can protect L2 guest VM against attacks form the L1 user mode, even ...