Anyone going to participate in #mermay this year? We’re just two days away until the challenge begins. I don’t know how many mermaids I’m going to be able draw in May but I hope I can do a lot.
Also, I like to thank you guys for over 10k followers here on Tumblr! Its been a long accomplishment here, but we finally made it! I really appreciate you guys for sticking with me this long!
Here’s something green for St. Patrick’s Day: the green sea turtle (Chelonia mydas)! Its signature color comes from its herbivorous diet, which includes seagrass and algae.
In fact, it’s one of the few sea turtles to mainly feed on vegetation. You might notice that its shell is brown; this is because its diet only affects the color of its fat. The reptile is big, too. It can grow to be as much as 4 feet (1.2 meters) and weigh a hefty 350 pounds (159 kilograms)! It has a wide range across tropical and subtropical waters and can be spotted in the Atlantic Ocean, Indian Ocean, Mediterranean Sea, and Pacific Ocean.
I’m so unbelievably excited to play new horizons! The long long wait is finally in it’s final hours so to celebrate i made the boys as villagers!!
It’s not perfect since I only have 3Dpaint but looking at these all finished makes me so giddy and happy!! Can’t wait to start playing in the near future!!
TheSeri, or Comcaac, people of the Sonora coast have had a long and important relationship with the leatherback. Considered to be one of their five creator deities, the capture and release of a leatherback is cause for ceremony and celebrations. In recent years, however, the nation has noticed the drastic decline of the leatherback population and decided to take action. The new conservation movement, called Grupo Tortuguero Comaac, consists of both elders and youths and uses both modern technology and tradition knowledge to monitor turtle populations and research their foraging habits. Five person teams consisting of an elder, two younger team members, and two trainees make monitoring expeditions into the Canal de Infiernillo, the center of Seri territory and a site of extreme importance for migrating juvenile turtles. This has proven an effective means of both monitoring local turtle populations and passing traditional knowledge on to the younger generations.
Theleatherback turtle has no teeth. Instead, its throat is lined with backwards-pointing spines designed to snag prey and prevent it from escaping once the turtle bites down.
During the breeding season, a female leatherback turtle will return to a sandy beach in the same region where she was born. At night, when the chances of predation are lowest, she will haul herself up onto the sand, dig a pit, and lay her eggs. She may lay up to nine clutches of over one hundred eggs, with nine days passing in between the laying of each clutch.
Nesting season is the only time adult leatherbacks will be found on the land, and the animals will consist only of females. Once a male leatherback has entered the sea, he will never leave it.
