A female green turtle at Huyong Island rests at the drop off

• YASUDA, TOHYA

• ARAI, NOBUAKI

• KITTIWATTANAWONG, KONGKIAT

• KLOM-IN, WINAI

Abstract

This paper gives preliminary results of diving behavior for one female green turtle during an inter-nesting period at Huyong Island in Thailand. A depth/temperature logger was used to examine the habitat utilization of the female green turtle during an inter-nesting period at Huyong Island in Thailand. In general, it has been believed that female turtles during this period rest at shallow water (typically less than 20 m) because they save energy for the nesting activities. However, time-series of depth for the female turtles at Huyong Island indicated that she sometime dived into the deep area (more than 20 m) although she tried to save energy by performing U-shape diving. A relationship between dive depth and dive duration suggests the deep dives were not resting dives. Previous satellite tracking study indicated that they stayed near the Huyong Island during this period. According to these results, female turtle used a reef edge or a drop-off, as their habitat during inter-nesting period.

Organized by Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University ; JSPS Bangkok Liaison Office ; Japanese Society of Bio-logging Science ; Informatics Research Center for Development of Knowledge Society Infrastructure

December 13-15, 2004, Imperial Tara Hotel, Bangkok, Thailand

Journal

• Proceedings of the International Symposium on SEASTAR2000 and Bio-logging Science (The 5th SEASTAR2000 Workshop)

  Proceedings of the International Symposium on SEASTAR2000 and Bio-logging Science (The 5th SEASTAR2000 Workshop) 34-36, 2004

  Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University

Keywords

• green turtles
• diving behavior
• Huyong Island
• inter-nesting period

Details

• CRID: 1050001202173634688
• NII Article ID: 120006653673
• HANDLE: 2433/44101
• Text Lang: en
• Article Type: conference paper
• Data Source:
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  • CiNii Articles