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Origins

Return to the shore.

Animals grouped here express a similar quality through their behavior in nature. Each species still has its own principle, lesson, meaning, and field-guide page.

2 species

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Green Sea Turtle

Species principle: Natal Return

Return to the shore.

Some journeys are completed by finding the shore that began you.

Green Sea Turtles migrate long distances between feeding areas and nesting beaches, with females returning to beaches near where they hatched to lay eggs.

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Olive Ridley Sea Turtle

Species principle: Arribada

Return in waves.

A great return becomes safer when many lives answer the tide together.

Olive Ridley Sea Turtles are famous for mass synchronized nesting events called arribadas, where many females come ashore to lay eggs on the same beaches.

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