Nesting population and frequency of visits in Dermochelys coriacea in Malaysia

• Main Author: Tock, Hing Chua
• Format: Article
• Language: English; English
• Published: Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles 1988
• Subjects: QL640-669.3 Reptiles and amphibians
• Online Access: https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/33992/2/Nesting%20population%20and%20frequency%20of%20visits%20in%20dermochelys%20coriacea%20in%20Malaysia.ABSTRACT.pdf; https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/33992/1/Nesting%20population%20and%20frequency%20of%20visits%20in%20dermochelys%20coriacea%20in%20malaysia.pdf; https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/33992/; https://www.jstor.org/stable/1563998; https://doi.org/10.2307/1563998

A total of 37,654 leatherback turtle visits were recorded over a period of 10 yrs (1967- 1976) on the east coast of peninsular Malaysia. The mean number of visits/yr was 3765 (range 1962-6721), made by 1924 individual turtles (1067-3103), with a mean number of visits/turtle/yr of 1.96 (overall gener...