Leatherback+Sea+Turtle

__Category__: Reptile
====__Physical Description__: ====

Since the leatherback sea turtle has spikes all along the range of its throat, it can easily hold down slippery foods.
====The leatherback is also vital to the population of jellyfish, keeping it in a reasonable range; because of their poisonous nature, jellyfish have few predators, and the leatherbacks, immune to their harmful stings, keep the population stable.====

They travel long miles from their nesting grounds to their feeding grounds; leatherbacks feed in coastal waters due to the abundance in their prey.
**PROBLEMS:**

New regulations in trawling fishing have been introduced, forcing fishermen to include turtle excluder devices, which allow turtles when caught in a net, to escape without harm.
====Many leatherbacks have been taken into captivity in the safety of zoos and wildlife refuges as to save some of the species; when reproduced, turtles are brought up in captivity and prepared for release into the wild.====

REFERENCES:
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, [] Marine Turtles, [] Home of the Leatherback Turtle, [] Florida Vacation and Travel Guide, [] Sea Turtles, [] Animal Diversity Web, []