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Nesting / breeding | |||
 | Depending on her age she will lay between 100 to 200 eggs. She then uses the flippers to cover the eggs with sand and returns to the sea. She will return to the same beach 10-20 days later to lay more eggs. Actually she can return several times during a season to lay several nests. | ||
| It takes 50-70 days before the eggs hatch. Just like other sea turtles the eggs will hatch at night and the hatchlings heads for the sea right away. | |||
 | Various predators such as sea birds and crabs are waiting every night to get a small snack out of the newborn sea turtles. Hatchlings are dark-brown or nearly black with a white underneath and white flipper margins. | ||
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