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The research was conducted in the Wildlife Refuge Playa Boca Vieja (RVSPBV)
aiming to census solitary nesting olive ridley Lepidochelys olivacea, obtaining
biometric data from females, nests and eggs, from August 2011 to January 2012
during which he found traces of about 60 turtles.
To compile this information, the team realized night watches along the beach
where twelve turtles nest were censued. While doing so, seven turtles were
watched in the nestling process. This process determined the optima egg-laying
time frames as wellas the most frequented nesting locations along the beach
When a nesting turtle was located, each step of the nesting process was logged
together with the time each interval lasted. After the nesting process was
finished, the nesting turtle's length and width of its shell and tracks were
measured as well as its weight. The nest was then measured for depth. In
addition, the eggs were counted, weighted and measured to find the nest's
average
The olive ridley turtle that nests in RVSPBV measures an average width of 70.14
cm, length of 66.86 cm, track width of 68.14 cm and a weight of 38.24 kg. In
October, a higher frequency of nesting with a total of six nests with the majority of
these nests being located in the high zone of the beach in sand without
vegetation and a nest depth of 42.25 cm
The nesting process has an average time of 46.7 minutes. The construction of
the nest lasts an average of 15.89 minutes while the egg laying process lasts an
average of 16.05 minutes according to the data collected. On average, each nest
contained 99.25 eggs with an average weight of 32.15 grams and a diameter of
3.80 cm. The average hatching success rate was 93.53%.
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