Entries for date "July 2001"

Scientific American: The trouble with turtles

PUERTO SAN CARLOS, MEXICO-- Here along the Pacific coast of Mexico's Baja California peninsula, a celebration--Easter, a birthday, the arrival of important guests--calls for a meal of caguama, or turtle. Locals also covet the animal's medicinal properties. The best-tasting, according to most, is the East Pacific green turtle (Chelonia mydas).…

Marine Turtle Newsletter: Record of pelagic east Pacific green turtles associated with macrocystis mats near Baja California Sur, Mexico

Wallace J. Nichols, Louise Brooks, Melania Lopez, Jeffrey A. Seminoff, Record of pelagic east Pacific green turtles associated with macrocystis mats near Baja California Sur, Mexico, Marine Turtle Newsletter, 2001, Volume 93, Pages 10-11, http://www.seaturtle.org/mtn/archives/mtn93/mtn93p10.shtml?nocount Juvenile East Pacific green turtles (Chelonia mydas), also known commonly as black turtles, encountered 20…