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If you can predict when a turtle nest will hatch, you can protect them much better. A special egg-shaped sensor should help with this.
The sea turtle is in poor condition all over the world. So there are various attempts to protect different species. For example, there is a GPS egg that can be tracked when poachers empty a nest and it is already tracked when the eggs are about to hatch, so baby turtles can be helped. They sometimes want to crawl towards the lights of a city rather than towards the sea.
Only the estimation of the result of the eggs is labor intensive and the estimation is not always correct. That’s why scientists have now developed a cheap egg-shaped sensor. One that can be placed in the nest and – now always via a wire to a communication mast – transmits movements in the nest live. This allowed them to establish patterns and accurately determine when the turtles would climb through the sand almost until daylight.
According to the researchers, the new TurtleSense system can make a significant contribution to animal protection, but can also help determine how long a beach should remain closed to visitors, for example.
Read more: Sensor disguised as sea turtle egg lets conservationists remotely predict nest hatch time
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