Inter-nesting movements and habitat-use of adult female Kemp’s ridley turtles in the Gulf of Mexico
Fig 7
Examples of three different types of behavior for Kemp’s ridley turtles during the inter-nesting period.
(A) No fidelity: Turtle P42, Tag number 17804 (non-SSM) did not display nest site fidelity between two confirmed nests (red circles, 36.8 km apart) or site fidelity to any in-water habitat during the 2003 nesting season. (B) Nest site fidelity only: Turtle P28, Tag number 82214 (non-SSM) displayed nest site fidelity between two confirmed nests (red circles, 0.3 km apart) but not site-fidelity to any in-water habitat during the 2008 nesting season. (C) Nest site and in-water fidelity: P121 displayed both nest-site and in-water habitat fidelity between two confirmed nests (green circles, 12.9 km apart) during the 2007 nesting season (Tag number 70703 (non-SSM), solid line) and three confirmed nests (yellow triangles, 1.1 and 4.0 km apart) during the 2012 nesting season (Tag number 112758 (SSM), dashed line).