{"id":21098,"date":"2021-08-19T15:30:54","date_gmt":"2021-08-20T01:30:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.temanaotemoana.org\/?p=21098"},"modified":"2021-08-25T15:31:49","modified_gmt":"2021-08-26T01:31:49","slug":"did-you-know-learn-more-about-what-defines-sea-turtles-gender","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.temanaotemoana.org\/en\/did-you-know-learn-more-about-what-defines-sea-turtles-gender\/","title":{"rendered":"Did you know? Learn more about what defines sea turtles gender"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q\">\n<div class=\"o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<p class=\"o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-21100 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.temanaotemoana.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/LE-SAVIEZ-VOUS--394x213.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"394\" height=\"213\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.temanaotemoana.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/LE-SAVIEZ-VOUS--394x213.jpeg 394w, https:\/\/www.temanaotemoana.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/LE-SAVIEZ-VOUS--768x415.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.temanaotemoana.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/LE-SAVIEZ-VOUS--1024x554.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.temanaotemoana.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/LE-SAVIEZ-VOUS--600x324.jpeg 600w, https:\/\/www.temanaotemoana.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/LE-SAVIEZ-VOUS-.jpeg 1748w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 394px) 100vw, 394px\" \/>The sex of baby turtles is defined by eggs incubation temperature. Above a certain temperature, hatchlings will be female. Below, they will be males.<\/p>\n<p>This \u00ab pivot \u00bb temperature is observed at around 28.5\u00b0C for green turtles. The hatchlings in the lower part of the nest where temperature is cooler, will therefore more frequently be males and the emerging turtles located in the upper warmer part of the nest will mostly be females.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\ud835\ude1e\ud835\ude29\ud835\ude22\ud835\ude35 \ud835\ude24\ud835\ude30\ud835\ude36\ud835\ude2d\ud835\ude25 \ud835\ude23\ud835\ude26 \ud835\ude35\ud835\ude29\ud835\ude26 \ud835\ude2a\ud835\ude2e\ud835\ude31\ud835\ude22\ud835\ude24\ud835\ude35 \ud835\ude30\ud835\ude27 \ud835\ude28\ud835\ude2d\ud835\ude30\ud835\ude23\ud835\ude22\ud835\ude2d \ud835\ude38\ud835\ude22\ud835\ude33\ud835\ude2e\ud835\ude2a\ud835\ude2f\ud835\ude28?<\/p>\n<p>A warmer temperature would result in a disproportion of the male\/female ratio with a dominance of females.<\/p>\n<p>In Polynesia, this phenomenon has not yet been proven. However, in some countries the results are alarming!<br \/>\nA study conducted in Australia on Raine Island by Dr. Camryn Allen, demonstrated a ratio of 116 females to 1 male in a population of adult green turtles.<\/p>\n<div class=\"o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q\">\n<div class=\"o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q\">\n<div class=\"o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q\"><\/div>\n<p dir=\"auto\">\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The sex of baby turtles is defined by eggs incubation temperature. Above a certain temperature, hatchlings will be female. Below, they will be males. This \u00ab pivot \u00bb temperature is observed at around 28.5\u00b0C for green turtles. The hatchlings in the lower part of the nest where temperature is cooler, will therefore more frequently be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":21100,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[578,13,474],"class_list":{"0":"post-21098","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-did-you-know","9":"tag-sea-turtles","10":"tag-te-mana-o-te-moana","11":"entry","12":"override"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.temanaotemoana.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.temanaotemoana.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.temanaotemoana.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.temanaotemoana.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.temanaotemoana.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21098"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.temanaotemoana.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21098\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21104,"href":"https:\/\/www.temanaotemoana.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21098\/revisions\/21104"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.temanaotemoana.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.temanaotemoana.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.temanaotemoana.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.temanaotemoana.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}