Vertebrate Life 10e Chapter 16 Video Links

Links to interesting videos illustrating some of the organisms and processes related to this chapter, updated on a regular basis.

The Reptile Database

http://www.reptile-database.org/

Turtles (Testudines): The Timetree of Life

http://www.timetree.org/public/data/pdf/Shaffer2009Chap55.pdf

Magnetoreception by Sea Turtles

http://www.sciencemag.org/video/we-dont-know-magnetoreception 

The Heat Is On: Desert Tortoises and Survival, Parts 1-4, USGS

https://www.usgs.gov/media/videos/heat-desert-tortoises-survival-full-length-part-1-4 

The Gopher Tortoise as an Ecological Engineer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5FwvUD2e94 

The Bizarre Mata Mata Turtle

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/videos/category/smithsonian-earth/matamata-turtle/?utm_source=smithsoniantopic&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=20170423-Weekender&spMailingID=28756988&spUserID=NzQwNDU4MzQ4NDYS1&spJobID=1023100963&spReportId=MTAyMzEwMDk2MwS2

 

Domed and Saddleback Galápagos Tortoises: How Does Shell Shape Affect the Cost of Righting?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2&v=8MNNjNKWVuc 

Wider Caribbean Sea Turtle Nesting Sites Viewer: OBIS Seamap, Duke University

http://seamap.env.duke.edu/widecast 

Sea Turtle Tracking, Sea Turtle Conservancy

https://conserveturtles.org/sea-turtle-tracking/

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