The word 'loggerhead' is a correct and usable word in written English.
It is an adjective that means "stubbornly or foolishly obstinate." For example: "The two sides had different opinions, but the loggerhead attitude of the opposition prevented any progress being made."
Our progress is hampered by windy conditions and by sticking to a big group, but the sight of an endangered Loggerhead turtle poking up from an underwater rock is enough to make the effort worthwhile.
There are also warnings that the reef's six species of turtle, including the endangered loggerhead and Olive Ridley turtles, and the snubfin dolphin, Australia's only endemic dolphin, would be affected by any mass industrialisation of the Queensland coast.
JELLYFISH may not be most people's idea of a tasty snack, but if you are a loggerhead turtle, they are top of the menu.
But to loggerheads it is the smell of a banquet.Ms Endres and her colleague Kenneth Lohmann showed this by collecting 11 loggerhead hatchlings from local beaches and testing them to see which smells most interested them.
If that works, the plan is to extend the system from Baja California in Mexico to the Bering Sea a project that would involve about 1,000 underwater tracking stations.Meanwhile, Andrew Read, a marine biologist at Duke University in North Carolina, is following 45 tagged loggerhead turtles.
Others, such as loggerhead sea turtles (Caretta caretta), are long-lived species that require 25 or more years to mature and have life spans that exceed 50 years.
For example, the Asian black marsh turtle (Siebenrockiella crassicollis), the American loggerhead musk turtle (Sternotherus carinatus), and the African Zambezi flapshell turtle (Cyclanorbis frenatum) eat only mollusks.
The only other New World species is the similar but smaller loggerhead shrike (L. ludovicianus) of North America.
Sea turtle, any of seven species of marine turtles belonging to the families Dermochelyidae (leatherback sea turtles) and Cheloniidae (green turtles, flatback sea turtles, loggerhead sea turtles, hawksbills, and ridleys).
While most species usually have two to four egg-laying events per nesting season, the loggerhead has up to seven.
Loggerhead (Caretta caretta) and green (Chelonia mydas) sea turtles have adult shell lengths between 0.9 and 1.2 metres (3 and 4 feet) long.
