The Official Royal Resorts News Blog » Turtle Record http://www.royalresortsnews.com The Official Royal Resorts News Blog Thu, 02 Feb 2012 22:36:31 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Keeping Track of the Turtles http://www.royalresortsnews.com/news/keeping-track-of-the-turtles/ http://www.royalresortsnews.com/news/keeping-track-of-the-turtles/#comments Thu, 23 Jul 2009 16:31:48 +0000 jgreen http://www.royalresortsnews.com/?p=324 Records are indeed made to be broken and last night The Royal Sands welcomed a green turtle that laid 207 eggs! This incredible mom brought the tally of nests to 37 and protected eggs to 4,446. The Royal Caribbean has now registered one loggerhead nest with 154 eggs.
Meanwhile at The Royal Haciendas where turtle rarely nest, staff reported an early arrival in May and we thought that you would like to see this photo of the baby turtles being released on July 3.

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]]> http://www.royalresortsnews.com/news/keeping-track-of-the-turtles/feed/ 2 A Turtle Record? http://www.royalresortsnews.com/news/a-turtle-record/ http://www.royalresortsnews.com/news/a-turtle-record/#comments Mon, 20 Jul 2009 12:16:30 +0000 jgreen http://www.royalresortsnews.com/?p=301 Last night at The Royal Sands not only did the security team record six turtles, one of them laid 172 eggs! Is this a record for a green turtle, we will certainly be investigating to find out. This weekend’s arrivals brings the tally for the season so far to 24 nests and 2,869 eggs.

We will keep you posted for more turtle news in the next few days.

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