Sentence examples for mass nesting from inspiring English sources

Up to 150,000 females can turn up and, laying 120 eggs each, such mass nesting events are a phenomenal sight.

For me, it combines all of the creatures I want to see - the mass nesting of Olive Ridley sea turtles, howler monkeys and frogs, toucans, volcanoes and boiling mud pits, hammerhead sharks and jaguars - with some of the best creature comforts and friendliest people in the world.

The Duke Marine Robotics and Remote Sensing Lab is calculating nearshore marine turtle densities in the Eastern Tropical Pacific by partnering with researchers from the University of North Carolina whose work focuses on gaining a better understanding of the environmental cues that lead to sea turtle mass nesting events (arribadas) in Costa Rica.

There are very few places on the planet where the olive ridleys come ashore for mass nesting.

Olive ridley turtles (Lepidochelys olivacea) (along with their congener, Kemp's ridleys), are unique among marine turtles for their polymorphic nesting behavior; i.e. synchronous mass nesting at particular beaches (termed arribadas) and disperse, asynchronous or solitary nesting at the rest of the species' nesting beaches.

The internesting interval for females varies according to species: from 10 days on average for leatherbacks [ 16] up to 28 days for olive ridley (Lepidochelys olivacea) females in mass nesting events [ 17].

The model included nestling age, body mass, TAC levels, tGSH, homogenate mass, nest identity and laboratory assay number (Table 2).

Other terms in the model were nestling mass, homogenate mass, nest identity and laboratory assay number (Table 1).

We examined nest morphology (e.g., mass, nest-wall thickness, internal and external nest-cup depth, internal and external nest-cup diameter) and nest composition of four phylogenetically independent lineages of birds to determine if nest morphologies converge under similar breeding conditions.

Welcome to one of nature's most cinematic scenes — the synchronized mass-nesting, or arribada (arrival), of female olive ridley sea turtles along Mexico's Pacific coast.

The mass spectrometer accounted for 52.3% of variability (see bottom bar of Figure 5), and the batch nested within each mass spectrometer accounted for 30.3% of variability, with the remaining 17.4% unexplained.