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Nest temperature decides whether turtle hatchlings are male or female
Warmer sand produces more females in most sea turtle species The pivotal temperature sits near 29 Celsius, and a degree either side shifts the sex ratio sharply. That makes nesting beaches vulnerable to warming. Females come ashore on the same beaches where they themselves hatched. It sits in Mondo's animals collection, one of 200 facts that each trace back to the reference below.
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Nest temperature decides whether turtle hatchlings are male or female: the short answers
- Where does this come from, and can I check it?
- Warmer sand produces more females in most sea turtle species. The figure is taken from NOAA Fisheries, which is linked in full on this page. Every fact on Mondo Knows names its source rather than repeating an unsourced claim.
- Is this really a animals fact?
- Yes. It sits on the Animals shelf, one of 2,600 sourced facts grouped into space, animals, the human body, history, science and more. Category pages collect every fact in the same field.
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