turtle-egg evacuation

Turtle-eggs nest by the polluted shores of the gulf. by doing this evacuation, it is able to save a generation of sea turtles that are endangered by the oil from Gulf of Mexico. They plan to rescue 70,000 turles eggs and send them to Kennedy Space center. When they are ready to be released they would be soaring throught the unoiled waters of the Atlantic Ocean. but they dont know if they migration of the eggs would bring them back to the Gulf. Turtle eggs take about 50 days of laying. It takes this long because the turtles are able to imprint while being in the egg. Imprinting is important to them because the female turtles can go back to they same place where they were hatched. So the problem is that scientist dont know weather turtles start imprinting in the egg or when they are hatched. If imprinting happens when they are in the egg, they have to gather all the eggs and out them somewhere else because they dont want the female turtles to tract back at the polluted waters of gulf of mexico.

Its important to keep the turtles in a safe place because if this evacuation doesnt happen it can lead to the death of the eggs and closer to extinction.

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