Leptiles

Caretta caretta

Loggerhead turtle

Family Cheloniidae. It is a sea turtle breeding in the northernmost area among the sea turtles. In Kushimoto, it lands on the beach every year from May to August, and lays eggs. It usually lays about 100 eggs, and baby turtles hatch after 60 days. Baby turtles right after hatching are the carapace length of about 4cm and the weight of about 20g. When they grow up, they are the carapace length of about 1m, and are often over the weight of 100kg. In our aquarium, we succeeded in the first breeding of the loggerhead turtle in the world in 1995. Since that, our loggerheads have laid eggs and hatched every year.

Baby loggerhead turtle

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