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English Glossary
Following you will find all the specific terms about turtles. Every word is accompanied by its meaning and by iconographic documentation, for better understanding.
Arribada
Beach
Beach Success
Body Pit
Body Pitting And Digging Track
Carapace
Chance Encounter
Cloaca
Clutch Frequency
Cold Stunning
Conservation
Curved Carapace Lenght/Width
Egg Chamber
Emergence
Emergence Pattern
False Crawls
Frenzy
Homing
Imprinting
Lost Year
Moved Sand
Passive Integrated Transponder
Pipping
Pivotal Temperature
Platform Terminal Transmitter
Probing
Remigration Interval
Renesting Interval
Secondary Body Pit
Social Facilitation
Temperature Data Logger
Turtle Excluder Device
U-Turn Track
Wandering Track
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