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The Leatherback Turtle

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by Isabelly

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A leatherback turtle

Table of contents

body parts of a turtle

1

what it eats

2

where it lives

3

Glossary

4

A leatherback turtle is not a turtle you see. It is dark blue or gray and it does not have a hard shell and it is very smooth and it is very different from all the other turtle you see.

1

A leatherback turtle can go under it's shell and hide under it to defend it's self

When a leatherback Turtle sees another turtle they usually don't like each other for the first part but then they'll come and be friends.

A leatherback turtle Sleeps for 12 hours a day and the rest of the day they swim or walk .They generally get tired for swimming so they'll go and just sleep but when it's a mommy turtle that usually have to take care of there baby's

This is a diagram.

A leatherback turtle usually eats twice a day, for breakfast and usually eat fruits or stuff hanging around the sea, for lunch or dinner at usually each jellyfish. It's favorite food it is jellyfish. But they can't eat jellyfish all the time. They usually share it with their babies or usually share it with their soulmate

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A leatherback turtle usually eats once they wake up and once it's time to go to sleep.
They go all around the ocean.
A leatherback turtle Usually stays with its babies and the daddy goes and find the food. Once the leather back turtle is born. They start to learn how to swim. And follow their mommy all around.

A leatherback turtle usually lives in the Atlantic ,Pacific or Indian Ocean it usually is in the western east of the ocean.
A usually lives in the sunlight zone because of their babies.

3

once they are adults they sometimes go to the mid-zone and they like to live in the warm water

this is a baby turtle learning how to swim

Glossary

4

sunlight zone

it is the top of the ocean

soulmate

a boyfriend or girlfriend

defend

to protect itself

generally

under normal conditions

mid-zone

the middle of the ocean