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Olive Ridley Sea Turtle Arribada

Each year olive ridley sea turtles return to their natal beach. How they find it shore is

Aired 06/21/2017 | Rating TV-PG

Big Pacific

Olive Ridley Sea Turtle Arribada

Clip: Episode 1 | 2m 38sVideo has Closed Captions

Each year olive ridley sea turtles return to their natal beach. How they find it shore is

Olive ridley sea turtles live most of their lives in the open ocean. But each year female sea turtles return en masse to their natal beach to synchronously lay eggs. Ostional, Costa Rica is one of their nesting locations. How half a million sea turtles find this same shore is a mystery.

Aired 06/21/2017 | Rating TV-PG

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