Felicity Fallas, Memorial School
Warren County
Second Place, Warren County, Atlantic Green Sea Turtle (c) Felicity Fallas
Atlantic Green Turtle
Oh hello didn't see you there. My name is Tana, Tana Cleonia Mydas, also known as Atlantic green turtle. I weigh between 200 to 300 pounds. My shell length ranges from 36 to 43 inches. Adults carapace (shell) can be brown and yellow with splotches of black.
Hatchlings are black with white on the edge of their legs, face, arms, shell, and neck.
My habitat well its in the ocean. Green turtles spend most of their time at sea, but come to the surface to breathe. I can be found in Tropical and Subtropical waters. My favorite food I love to is eat marine algae, marine grasses, invertebrates, and eel grass.
Hatchlings may be hunted by raccoons, crabs, and birds on the land. At sea we are hunted by large fish. I am threatened because to many fisherman leaving their nets ALL over the place and there are too many oil spills, my habitat is being destroyed. Garbage, I don't even want to talk about it. Also direct killing and injuries.
We go to the same beach that we had hatch from like our mothers, grandmothers, and even great grandmothers did. Atlantic green turtles may live to be over one hundred years old. Green turtles cannot pull their head inside shell. I can lay about two hundred eggs per clutch. Like lots of other pieces of turtle there is completion for the girl. While breeding another male will bite the other male if the other is UN liked. Well got to go......Help please someone help me I am stuck! Well got to go Haley got stuck in a fisherman's net. I have to go help her get out of the net.
Written by: Felicity Fallas
Memorial School, Washington, NJ
Teacher: Mrs. Hausamann