{"id":4042,"date":"2015-04-12T16:11:08","date_gmt":"2015-04-12T21:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=4042"},"modified":"2015-04-13T14:19:16","modified_gmt":"2015-04-13T19:19:16","slug":"swimming-or-drifting-young-sea-turtles-do-swim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/swimming-or-drifting-young-sea-turtles-do-swim\/","title":{"rendered":"Swimming or drifting: young sea turtles do swim"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_4043\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/2375248876_1ac404f6ca_z.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4043\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4043\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/2375248876_1ac404f6ca_z.jpg\" alt=\"Until now it was unknown whether juvenile sea turtles were able to swim under their own power. (Photo credit: Alfonso Gonz\u00e1lez, flickr.com)\" width=\"500\" height=\"359\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/2375248876_1ac404f6ca_z.jpg 500w, http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/2375248876_1ac404f6ca_z-300x215.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4043\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Until now it was unknown whether juvenile sea turtles were able to swim under their own power. (Photo credit: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/alfonsator\/2375248876\">Alfonso Gonz\u00e1lez, flickr.com<\/a>)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u201cToddler\u201d sea turtles appear to be active swimmers moving with a purpose, going against the previously held belief that they drifted with ocean currents.<\/p>\n<p>A team of researchers tracked young Green Sea turtles and Kemp\u2019s Ridley sea turtles using satellite telemetry as well as buoys to follow sea currents.<\/p>\n<p>Comparing the models of ocean currents and the movement of the surface drifting buoys with the movement of the turtles, the researchers concluded that these young sea turtles were actively swimming.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cell.com\/current-biology\/abstract\/S0960-9822(15)00328-0\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Original research paper<\/span><\/a>\u00a0published in <em>Current Biology\u00a0<\/em>on\u00a0<strong>April\u00a09<\/strong><span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_453723367\"><span class=\"aQJ\"><strong>, 2015<\/strong>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><strong>Names and affiliations of selected\u00a0authors<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<h4>Nathan F. Putman, NOAA Southeast Fisheries Science Center, Florida, U.S.A.<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cToddler\u201d sea turtles appear to be active swimmers moving with a purpose, going against the previously held belief that they drifted with ocean currents. A team of researchers tracked young Green Sea turtles and Kemp\u2019s Ridley sea turtles using satellite telemetry as well as buoys to follow sea currents. Comparing the models of ocean currents [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4043,"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":[39,2415],"class_list":["post-4042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-paper-of-interest","tag-animal-behaviour","tag-sea-turtles"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/2375248876_1ac404f6ca_z.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-13c","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4042","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=4042"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4042\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4044,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4042\/revisions\/4044"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}