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单词 olive ridley
释义

olive ridley

noun

: a relatively small sea turtle (Lepidochelys olivacea) that has a uniformly olive-colored carapace and is found along coasts and in the open sea of the tropical parts of the Pacific, Indian, and Atlantic oceans

called also olive ridley turtle

Example Sentences

Recent Examples on the Web The assignment was simply to go to Mexico and see the arribazon—the arrival of hundreds of thousands of olive ridley turtles, which were endangered at the time, lay their eggs on the beach. Elizabeth Hightower Allen, Outside Online, 28 Dec. 2021 After the garbage was removed, olive ridley turtle hatchlings were spotted on the beach in 2018 for the first time in decades. Mckenzie Sadeghi, USA TODAY, 4 June 2017 In a two-year research project that began in 2017, Pheasey deployed 101 fake eggs in the nests of olive ridley and green sea turtles across four beaches in Costa Rica, to test their effectiveness in tracking trade routes. Nell Lewis, CNN, 15 Dec. 2020 According to National Geographic, olive ridley sea turtles are commonly found in warmer waters, and the reptiles can live to be 50 years old. Benjamin Vanhoose, PEOPLE.com, 5 Nov. 2020 The researchers then went to four Costa Rican beaches, where green sea turtle and olive ridley sea turtles come ashore to make their nests. Lucy Hicks, Science | AAAS, 5 Oct. 2020 Scientific Reports detailing a northward shift of 67 species, including bottlenose dolphins and olive ridley sea turtles, during the marine heat wave that occurred between 2014 and 2016. Nick Rahaim, SFChronicle.com, 16 Oct. 2020 Her team placed InvestEGGators in 101 different nests of both green sea turtles and olive ridley sea turtles across Costa Rica. Corryn Wetzel, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Oct. 2020 The team received tracking data for five other decoys, three of which had been hidden in olive ridley nests and two of which had been concealed in green turtle nests. Lucy Hicks, Science | AAAS, 5 Oct. 2020 See More

Word History

First Known Use

1980, in the meaning defined above

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