Multiple and Group Nesting by the Atlantic Loggerhead Turtle

Abstract

Tagging results and studies of unlaid eggs in dissected females demonstrate that individuals of the Atlantic loggerhead sea turtle nest several times on the same stretch of beach in a summer, but it is not yet known whether each individual lays every year. Individual turtles can locate these places with some precision. Tagging results show groups of turtles nest together several times, and it is believed they stay together during the periods between the nesting emergences.