Thermal Influences on the Swimming Speed of Loggerhead Turtle Hatchlings
- 5 December 1980
- journal article
- research article
- Published by JSTOR in Ichthyology & Herpetology
- Vol. 1980 (4) , 773-780
- https://doi.org/10.2307/1444456
Abstract
Loggerhead turtle hatchlings in laboratory tanks had a sustained swimming speed of approximately 20 cm/s at temperatures between 25.6.degree. and 28.9.degree. C. Test temperatures of 30.0.degree. and 33.0.degree. C significantly reduced this speed. The swimming speed of hatchlings exposed to fluctuating temperatures varied with the temperature. A temperature of 33.0.degree. C eliminated phototactic orientation.This publication has 4 references indexed in Scilit:
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