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A female sea turtle may migrate thousands of miles to find a suitable
nesting beach. After depositing her eggs, she uses her hind flippers
to cover them with sand. The threats to turtle eggs and young hatchlings
are so great that a clutch of more than 100 eggs may never make it to
adulthood. These threats include wildlife predators, such as foxes and
sea birds, that eat eggs or hatchlings. Humans are also a threat, some
humans steal turtle eggs for food, and the lights of human dwellings often
disorient the hatchlings, causing them to race toward human developments
instead of into the sea.
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