Costa Rica is invaded every year by these incredible creatures. Nearly a hundred thousand of them can come ashore in one night during one of their ‘’arribadas’’ in order to lay their eggs. Each turtle, (Pacific Olive Ridley Sea Turtle/Lepidochelys olivacea), may lay about 100 eggs. 50 days later the little baby turtles will hatch. Imagine how many of them will be trying to reach the warm pacific ocean. Some of these female baby turtles that make it, will return 15 years to the same privileged Costa Rican beach and community to lay their own eggs, while the males will stay in the waters near the beach to mate with the female turtles and then go back further into to the big Pacific Ocean.
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