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Scientists use tiny 'backpacks' on turtle hatchlings to observe their movements

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Scientists from UNSW 's School of Biological , Earth and Environmental Sciences used a small device, known as an accelerometer, to uncover novel findings into the behaviors of hatchlings as they emerge from their nests.

They found that buried hatchlings maintained a head-up orientation and unexpectedly, moved vertically through the sand by rocking forwards and backwards.

The findings have important implications for conserving a declining turtle population globally.

Using accelerometers to monitor hatchlings provides many benefits, including data of movement and behaviors, and crucially, the ability to study turtles when our visibility of them is limited.

The findings have also provided new insights and changed previous assumptions about hatchlings ' earliest days in the sand.

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