Olive Ridley Sea Turtle Lepidochelys olivacea Taxonomy Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Reptilia Order: Testudines Family: Cheloniidae Genus: Lepidochelys Species: L. olivacea Overview An adult Olive Ridley Sea Turtle weighs around 100 pounds and is 22-31 inches long, while hatchlings weigh less than 1 ounce and are on average 1.5 inches long (NOAA, 2014). They spend most of their time at
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DANTA is delighted to announce a new course offering for winter 2016! Neotropical Bat Biology will be held from January 1-15, 2016 at Osa Conservation‘s Piro Research Station in Costa Rica’s spectacular Osa peninsula. As the one of the largest tracts of rain forest north of the Amazon (roughly 400,000 acres in the Osa Conservation Area), it is renowned for high species
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“No matter what religious or spiritual beliefs you hold, it’s impossible to deny we have been blessed with a planet that has everything we need to survive and be healthy. It is up to us to care for it and to keep it livable for ourselves and all of the living things that share it with us.” -David Suzuki I
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Feels Good! An awesome video recorded during DANTA’s Winter 2015 Methods in Primate Behavior and Conservation Course in the spectacular Osa Peninsula, Costa Rica by Kelly Haggerty, a course participant. For more information about our programs, please visit our website and/or contact us at conservation@danta.info.
Read morePrimate Connections 2015 Calendars Now Available! What fundraising project brings together 13 primate conservation organizations, four independent wildlife photographers, three primate conservation societies, two zoos, and half a dozen youth organizations, all in the name of primate conservation? The 2015 Primate Connections calendar, of course! Click here to view the calendar. Yes, that’s right. The 2015 Primate Connections Calendar Project
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