Loggerhead sea turtle

                                           
                                     
                                         Loggerhead sea turtle 
            
The Loggerhead sea turtle is an oceanic turtle distributed around the world. It is currently 
 vulnerable, do to being hunted for their eggs and meat and because they eat plastics or 
 bottles that kill it.  It is a marine reptile, belonging to the family cheloniidae, and its one of
 the most interesting animals in the ocean. 

 1. Description: 
The Loggerhead turtle is the world's largest hard-shelled turtle. Adults weighed more 
than 80 pounds to 200 kg ( 180 to 440 lb) and the head and upper shell are range from yellow to orange, while the underside is plain pail yellow. The shell serves as an external armor,although  loggerhead turtles cannot retract their head or flippers into their 
shells, the lachrymal glands  located behind each eye allowing the loggerhead 
to maintain osmotic balance. 

2. Habitat:
The loggerhead turtle spend most of its time in the open sea and in shallow coastal waters, they rarely come ashore, except for the female's brief visits to construct nests and deposit eggs. Hatchling loggerhead turtles live in floating mats of sargassum algae. Loggerheads like water that is 13.3-28.0 C ( 56-82 F), and tons of small animals or algae are grow on the turtles shell. 

3.Feeding: 
The loggerhead turtle is omnivorous, feeding mainly on bottom-dwelling invertebrates, 
such as gastropods, bivalves, and decapods. They are likely to eat sponges, corals, 
sea pens, isopods, insects, barnacles, sand dollars, and squids. They crush their 
prey with powerful jaws and use some points called the ''pseudo-claws'' to tear l
arge pieces of food in the loggerhead and acid inside the turtle increases as 
temperature increases. 

                         










4. Predators:
The loggerhead turtle does have alot of predators, especially early as they hatch from 
their eggs. Some predators are the ghost crabs, beetles, fly larvae, ants, parasitiod 
wasp larvae, flesh flies, snakes, toads, and even seabirds. When they are fully 
grown they might be attacked by sharks, killer whales, humans, feral dogs,
 and flesh flies. 

5. diseases: 
Dangerous bacteria such as pseudomonas and salmonella attack loggerhead hatchlings 
and eggs.fungi such as penicillium can cause external tumors, which the tumors interupt 
the turtles behavior or can cause blindness.Can cause lesions in the turtles lungs, 
heart,and intestines. 



6. conclusion: 
People have been trying to safe the turtles as they are been captured by seamen in fishing nets or stopping people from selling them illegally, the turtles are proctected by the nature conservation act of 1992 and volunteers looks from nests and takes care of the turtles eggs and when they hatch, some are free and others that died are taken to laboratories to study them, but its important to not capture them.