Observations of Male Green Turtles Chelonia mydas on the nesting beach at Tortuguero National Park, Costa Rica
Publication Year: 2000
Authors: Sebastian Troëng
Abstract: Most descriptions of male green turtles (Chelonia mydas) behavior have been of turtles at sea (Boothand Peters, 1972; Ehrhart, 1982; Limpus, 1993; Hirth, 1997). Exceptions are observations of green turtles in the Indo-Pacific region where males occasionally emerge on land to bask (Whittow and Balazs, 1982). In addition, in Cyprus male green turtles have been seen twice on land while still attached in mating positions to females comping ashore to nest (Broderick and Godley, 1997). Both times, the male dismounted and returned to the sea after the females had ascended 5-10 m up the beach.
