Leatherbacks

Graph of GPS data of Leatherback turtle migrations. This is data from transmitters attached to hundreds of the giant sea turtles.

 

"The map resulting resulting from the transmissions, published in the July Ecosphere, shows creatures that don’t just drift in instinctive obedience to migratory impulse. The leatherbacks navigated in time with season and temperature and current, visiting eddies and boundaries and blooms. They demonstrated the sophistication and pickiness of a savvy grocery-store shopper, except their store covers a tenth of Earth’s surface."

 

Amazing how much there is yet to learn about the natural world. There are a million reasons why we should carefully evaluate how we interact with it. Here's a few hundred of them.