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Posted January 16, Researchers at CSIRO are encouraging the public to become citizen scientists with a competition allowing them to name turtles at the world heritage-listed Ningaloo reef. More than people have voted on the top 10 submitted turtle names, with the three winners due to be turtles nesting exmouth market on Wednesday.
The CSIRO Ningaloo Outlook team will be tagging the nesting female green turtles at Ningaloo with satellite trackers and allocating their names from next week. Jurabi is currently turtles nesting exmouth market most popular name, followed by Ningles and then it is a three-way tie between Myrtle, Beatrix and Budgial.
The entrant who submitted Jurabi said they chose it because it was the first place they had seen turtles with their mother. Budgial is said to be an Aboriginal name for sea turtle from a popular Indigenous story about a turtle, a goanna and a fish.
Researchers have already involved the local community and schools in naming tagged turtles over the past 18 months. You can click on your favourite, so if it's Myrtle the turtles nesting exmouth market you can see where she's been. Researchers are collecting data about the turtle ecology which could then be used for management. We put turtles nesting exmouth market satellite tracker on him expecting him to do some interesting things — after days he was still one kilometre away.
In addition to tagging turtles, researchers are studying the role the species's role in the food webs of Ningaloo to learn more about the diet and habitat of turtles and reef sharks.
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