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Godley, B.J., Broderick, A.C., Frauenstein, R., Glen, F. and Hays, G.C. (2002) Reproductive Seasonality and Sexual Dimorphism in Green Turtles. <i>Marine Ecology Progress Series</i>, <b>226</b>: 125 - 133. 695109 1 695109 4023974 false 1 12. Zug, G.R., Vitt, L.J. and Caldwell, J.P. (2001) <i>Herpetology</i>. Academic Press, London. 695110 1 695110 4023974 false 1 John Behler and F. King (1979) The National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Reptiles and Amphibians. Chanticleer Press: New York. 731059 1 731059 2392758 false 1 Green turtles are long-lived and may take up to 59 years to reach sexual maturity (6) Undertaking tremendous feats of navigation, adults return to the same beach to breed each season, part of the population in Brazil astonishingly migrates around 2,250 kilometres across the open ocean to breed on the Ascension Islands (12). Mating tends to occur just offshore of the nesting beaches; using a curved claw on each front flipper and a flat nail at the end of the tail, males are able to grip their mates (2). Females haul out onto the beach at night and dig large nests with their back flippers beyond the high tide mark, they typically lay between 100 and 150 eggs in one nest and then proceed to cover the eggs with sand; the whole process takes around two hours (6). A single female returns to breed only once every two to five years but will lay up to nine nests in that one season (2). Incubation takes between 45 and 70 days, and temperature has been shown to determine of the sex of hatchlings; with females being produced at warmer temperatures (6). Breaking open their eggs with a special hooked 'egg tooth' that will subsequently be lost; hatchlings use their powerful front flippers to reach the surface, and then proceed to the sea (7). The soft-bodied juveniles are particularly vulnerable at this time from a variety of predators, such as ghost crabs and gulls on the beach to sharks and dolphins in the water (7).</p><p>Unlike other marine turtles, adult green turtles are almost exclusively herbivorous, grazing on seagrasses and algae (8); it is assumed that juveniles are more omnivorous although the exact composition of their diet is unknown (6) afedd4e221f04334fd9383287c0c23aa 2613544 Wildscreen Copyright Wildscreen 2003-2008 ARKive Copyright Copyright Wildscreen 2003-2008. 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