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Wildlife Puzzle: Olive Ridley Turtle

Put together this jigsaw to see an olive ridley turtle take a dip in Odisha
Photo by: Dhritiman Mukherjee
Updated   September 29, 2023
Photo by: Dhritiman Mukherjee
Updated   September 29, 2023
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Wildlife Puzzle: Olive Ridley Wildlife Puzzle: Olive Ridley
Put together this jigsaw to see an olive ridley turtle take a dip in Odisha
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One of the most abundant sea turtles in the world, the olive ridley is also the second smallest of all the sea turtles. Usually solitary by nature, the mass nesting where they can gather in numbers of over 50,000 at a time is unique to the olive ridley and Kemp’s ridley. In India, the mass nesting of olive ridleys is nothing short of magic. Read about it here


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