Sentence examples for leatherback turtle from inspiring English sources

It was closely followed by the leatherback turtle, at 15Hz.

WE could perhaps learn something from the female leatherback turtle.

"On my first day, I raced to the water," a baby leatherback turtle boasts.

Perhaps it is a mercy that, unlike the leatherback turtle, humans don't live to be 150.

The common hippopotamus and leatherback turtle are also being affected by climate-related droughts and high temperatures.

FIFTY years ago Malaysia's northern state of Terengganu played host to 6,000 to 10,000 leatherback turtle nests every summer.

The area is rich in marine life, including humpback whales and La Plata dolphins, but Almeida's greatest concern is for the endangered leatherback turtle.

Consider the newly realized long-distance connection between logging deep in the Congo River basin and the nesting grounds of the rare leatherback turtle.

The thousands of logs clogging beaches have prevented the endangered leatherback turtle and others from nesting, according to a study in the journal Oryx.

According to projections from Brazil's environment ministry, the tide is expected to spread along 5.5-mile (9km) stretch of the coastline, threatening the Comboios nature reserve, one of the only regular nesting sites for the endangered leatherback turtle.

I was lucky the day I was there: The guide spotted a leatherback turtle--the largest turtle species in the world.