The Voyage of Our Turtles: MY4490/MY4491

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Location and movement of MY4490/MY4491

Turtle Name:
MY4490/MY4491
Not officially named yet.

Current Location
Off Pulau Pisang, Johor, Malaysia
as of 29 September 2008

Deployment Location
Pulau Upeh, Melaka

Deployment Date
03 August 2008

Flipper Tag Numbers
MY4490/MY4491

Curved Carapace Length (Shell Length)
83.5 cm

Curved Carapace Width (Shell Width)
73.7 cm

Weight
57 kg

Biography

MY4490/MY4491 was tagged during our first encountered nesting last year on 15 April 2007, on the island (Pulau Upeh), and surprisingly she came back again this year (most hawksbills take a break for a year or more as you would imagine travelling hundreds of kilometres and laying more than half a thousand eggs can be very exhausting to commit to every year). She immediately became our favourite to deploy a transmitter on and we managed to do so on her second nesting on 3 August 2008, which marked her second nesting of the season.

We have encountered her returning to the island to nest for a total of six times including the recent nest of 108 eggs she laid on 23 September 2008. It may just be her final nesting as she cruises out of her nesting waters, indicating that she's ready to head back to her feeding ground.