{"id":2177,"date":"2014-07-02T17:05:00","date_gmt":"2014-07-02T22:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=2177"},"modified":"2014-07-02T11:03:13","modified_gmt":"2014-07-02T16:03:13","slug":"digesting-dinner-keeps-leatherback-turtles-warm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/digesting-dinner-keeps-leatherback-turtles-warm\/","title":{"rendered":"Digesting dinner keeps leatherback turtles warm<img src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/canada_flag_icon_small.gif\">"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2149\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/CSTN_DSC_7736_E_CASEY_JEB_press.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2149\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2149\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/CSTN_DSC_7736_E_CASEY_JEB_press.jpeg\" alt=\"Leatherback turtles like this one \u2014 photographed off the coast of Cape Breton Island \u2014 rely strongly on the heat produced as they digest their jellyfish meals to keep themselves warm in the cold waters off Canada\u2019s Atlantic coast. (Photo credit: Canadian Sea Turtle Network)\" width=\"300\" height=\"413\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/CSTN_DSC_7736_E_CASEY_JEB_press.jpeg 300w, http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/CSTN_DSC_7736_E_CASEY_JEB_press-217x300.jpeg 217w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2149\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Leatherback turtles like this one \u2014 photographed off the coast of Cape Breton Island \u2014 rely strongly on the heat produced as they digest their jellyfish meals to keep themselves warm in the cold waters off Canada\u2019s Atlantic coast. (Photo credit: <a href=\"http:\/\/canadaseaturtle.wordpress.com\/\">Canadian Sea Turtle Network<\/a>)<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Scientists have determined that metabolic heat produced from digesting prey is a key component of what keeps leatherback turtles warm in the cold waters off Canada\u2019s Atlantic coast. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Researchers attached temperature monitors to seven leatherback turtles off the coast of Cape Breton and discovered that they cool down during the day (most likely due to feeding on cold prey) and warm up at night (as they digest the prey.) <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">On average, turtles kept their body temperature 10 degrees higher than the surrounding water; the authors estimate that up to half of the heat required to maintain this temperature comes from the process of digesting its prey.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1242\/jeb.109694\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Original research paper<\/span><\/a>\u00a0published in the\u00a0<em>Journal of Experimental Biology\u00a0<\/em>on\u00a0<strong>July 2,\u00a02014<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Names and affiliations of selected\u00a0authors<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<h4 dir=\"ltr\" style=\"color: #222222;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Mike James, Fisheries and Oceans Canada<\/span><\/h4>\n<h4 dir=\"ltr\" style=\"color: #222222;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">James Casey, Barnard University,\u00a0U.S.A.<\/span><\/h4>\n<h4 dir=\"ltr\" style=\"color: #222222;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Kathleen Martin, Canadian Sea Turtle Network, Nova Scotia\u00a0<\/span><\/h4>\n<h4 dir=\"ltr\" style=\"color: #222222;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Amanda Southwood Williard, University of North Carolina Wilmington, U.S.A.<\/span><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists have determined that metabolic heat produced from digesting prey is a key component of what keeps leatherback turtles warm in the cold waters off Canada\u2019s Atlantic coast. Researchers attached temperature monitors to seven leatherback turtles off the coast of Cape Breton and discovered that they cool down during the day (most likely due to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2149,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[39,174,113,917,1287],"class_list":["post-2177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-paper-of-interest","tag-animal-behaviour","tag-animals","tag-biology","tag-evolution","tag-nova-scotia"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/CSTN_DSC_7736_E_CASEY_JEB_press.jpeg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-z7","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2177"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2181,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2177\/revisions\/2181"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}