Sea Turtles Predicting Hurricane Season Activity

[TheStormExpert]

I just heard not too long ago that Sea Turtles lay their eggs further up on the beach into the dunes if a hurricane season is expected to be active. I found this very interesting as I was at the beach in Juno Beach and saw a Sea Turtle nest in the dunes along the pathway down to the beach and thought that it was pretty far up. The beach there has been re-nourished multiple times and is wide. Does anyone else know much about this theory?

[St0rmTh0r]

I just heard not too long ago that Sea Turtles lay their eggs further up on the beach into the dunes if a hurricane season is expected to be active. I found this very interesting as I was at the beach in Juno Beach and saw a Sea Turtle nest in the dunes along the pathway down to the beach and thought that it was pretty far up. The beach there has been re-nourished multiple times and is wide. Does anyone else know much about this theory?

Never heard this before but it makes sense because animals are in tune with nature more than us. I'm pretty sure you can find several examples of animals behaving like this.

[Jr0d]

I first heard this theory back in 1992. While it was a below average season, it also had one of the notorious storms of all time.

[southportwxfan]

that's very interesting. I don't know if that happened at Oak Island this year, but unfortunately so many dunes were destroyed with the hurricane that it wouldn't have helped the turtles. The people who monitor the turtle nests on Oak Island have only been able to find 2 of the many nests that were there prior to the hurricane. It's very sad.

[Eyesac]

I recently started a show called Connected on Netflix. In one episode the host was working with a researcher in the Mid-Atlantic who has been studying birds called Veeries, members of the Thrush family.

These birds nest and raise their chick's here over the summer then migrate the the Brazilian Amazon to over winter. After several years he started to notice that some years the birds would cut their nesting season short. When he started to look for a why as to their early departure he noticed a correlation between active hurricane seasons and early departure.

Animals are much more in tune...

[toad strangler]

Mark Sudduth did a pc recently on the behavior of seals in relation to a upcoming tropical season. I can't find it at the moment but it was really interesting.