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Reproduction

Return in waves.

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.

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Olive Ridley Sea Turtle animal lesson image on AnimalDex

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.

Yellow-spotted River Turtle (Podocnemis unifilis) thumbnail image on AnimalDex

Yellow-spotted River Turtle

Species principle: River Nesting

Choose the shore.

A future is protected by knowing which shore can hold it.

Yellow-spotted River Turtles inhabit Amazon and Orinoco river systems and nest on sandy banks during suitable seasons, linking reproduction to river levels and exposed shorelines.

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