What's for Dinner?
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Plants
Meat
Both
Depending on the species of the sea turtle is what determines the diet.
1. Hawksbill turtles eat sea grass, sea sponge, and small crabs.
2. Leatherback turtles eat jellyfish, planktonic tunicates, and some fish.
3. Loggerhead turtles eat mollusks, crustaceans, large clams, conchs, and horeshoe crabs.
4. Olive ridley turtles eat crabs, shrimp, jellyfish, and fish eggs.
5. Flatback turtles eat jellyfish, bryozoans, sea cucumbers, prawns, mollusks, other invertebrates and seaweed.
6. Kemp ridley turtles eat jellyfish, fish, squid, sea urchins, shrimp, clams, crabs, and mussels.
7. Green turtles eat seagrass and seaweed.
Plants
Meat
Both
Depending on the species of the sea turtle is what determines the diet.
1. Hawksbill turtles eat sea grass, sea sponge, and small crabs.
2. Leatherback turtles eat jellyfish, planktonic tunicates, and some fish.
3. Loggerhead turtles eat mollusks, crustaceans, large clams, conchs, and horeshoe crabs.
4. Olive ridley turtles eat crabs, shrimp, jellyfish, and fish eggs.
5. Flatback turtles eat jellyfish, bryozoans, sea cucumbers, prawns, mollusks, other invertebrates and seaweed.
6. Kemp ridley turtles eat jellyfish, fish, squid, sea urchins, shrimp, clams, crabs, and mussels.
7. Green turtles eat seagrass and seaweed.