Name: Turtle, Olive Ridley
Classification: Reptile
Place first seen: San Pancho, Nayarit, Mexico
Date spotted: July 2013
Description:
Thanks to Frank Smith at the Grupo Ecológico de la Costa Verde in San Pancho, we saw newborn turtles and found five nests late at night, including one mother laying the eggs. The mother goes into a trance when she is laying eggs. The incubation period is 45 days, and the baby turtles that survive to adulthood (1 in 500) will come back to the same beach to lay their own eggs. Click here to see the film.