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Here are related sites if you are interested in knowing more about sea turtles or seeing them in action.

 

1. Youtube.com

This links provides a great illustration of the green sea turtle in action:

"Flight of the Turtle."20 Oct 2007. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yXkn9RAmXk

Video courtesy of: philiptdotcom

2.Wikipedia.org.

This link provides more detailed information on the evolution and history of other species of sea turtles:

"Turtle." 19 oct 2007. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turtle

3. EarthTrust.org

This links provides good background information on the green sea turtle:

http://www.earthtrust.org/wlcurric/turtles.html

4. GoogleScholar.com

This link leads to specific articles addressing oxygen transport, green sea turtle hemoglobin, green sea turtle blood, and cardiovascular impact:

http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=oxygen+transport+and+chelonia+mydas&hl=en&um=1&ie=UTF-8&oi=scholart

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=chelonia+mydas+blood

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=chelonia+mydas+hemoglobin

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=chelonia+mydas+buoyancy+control

This link leads to a journal article that provieds detailed infromation on blood gases in sea turtles:

http://icb.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/reprint/37/1/12.pdf

 

 

 

 

This project was created as a part of a class project in the Animal Physiology class in the Department of Biology at Davidson College

E-mail questions to: snreid@davidson.edu

 

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