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There is little known about the leatherback sea turtle in comparison to the amounts to studies made on other species of sea turtles. As far as I can tell there isn't a real defense mechanism that the Leatherback use to defend themselves but they are extremely fast swimmers once in the water which could allow them to escape some of it's predators also keep in mind that due to it's large size not many animals would venture out to catch a leatherback sea turtle with the exeption of sharks. Shark bites by far is the most common attack recorded on leatherbacks by other animal.

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