Chelonia mydas

Chelonia mydas is the scientific name of a marine turtle more known as green turtle, or cahuama in the Caribbean Sea. This species has a shell of olive green color or brown smoothed enough and hydrodynamic, and fins with form of oar to move skillfully in the water. The adult green turtles, which are herbivorous, go so far as to measure up to 1,66 m long, reach a maximum weight 300 kilos and can live 100 years. His habitat spreads over the tropical and subtropical oceans of the whole world, and even in the Mediterranean. At present extinction danger is seriously.

The green turtles are born out of the water, in nests buried in the sand of the beach. When to the females it touches the turn to be mothers, big distances migrate between the places selected to feed and the beaches where they were born. It is known that some C. mydas has covered up to 2.600 kilometers to come to his spawning places. In every putting 100 eggs settle, since the possibilities that all the babies survive are quite remote. After two months of incubation, the "tortuguitas" break the shell and, in full night, they initiate a frenetic career towards the sea, where they will come instinctively for being the most brilliant place of the horizon.