A few days ago I went down to the beach and saw 2 baby leatherback turtles emerge from their nest (shown below). After they had quickly swum to the ocean, the turtle patrol dug up the nest where the rest of the turtles had hatched 4 days ago. They kept digging until an arm length hole had been formed and at that point we had found:
- 65 hatched eggs (the 65 turtles that had hatched 4 days ago)
- 3 live hatchlings in nest (3 live turtles we found while digging and watched slowly swim to the ocean)
- 12 dead hatchlings (the turtles that had gotten out of their shells but then died or were killed))
- 0 live pipped (what would be a turtle still coming out of it's shell)
- 4 dead pipped (died half way out of it's shell)
- 5 whole (the 2 turtles found emerging at first + the 3 live hatchlings = 5 whole)
- 8 damaged (turtles that never made it out of the shell)
50 hatchlings emerged
82 total eggs
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