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Because turtles are slow.. Hahahahahaha get their slow.

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Q: Why do sea turtles mistake plastic bags as jellyfish?
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How can humans help sea turtles?

cleaning up the beaches, not throwing plastic bags in the ocean because turtles will mistake it for jellyfish which is what they eat.


What endanger's the leatherback sea turtle?

One cause for their endangered state is plastic bags floating in the ocean. Pacific Leatherback sea turtles mistake these plastic bags for jellyfish. Hope that helps.


What is a enemy for a turtle?

for sea turtles, plastic bags. When sea turtles find plastic bags, they assume that it's their favorite food, jellyfish. They can get strangled by these bags. DON'T LITTER!


Why is the leatherback turtle near extinction?

Leatherbacks are threatened species for several reasons:Leatherback Turtles are endangered from plastic waste in the water. The turtles swallow floating plastic bags thinking they are jellyfish. This causes them to suffocate.OverfishingPeople kill them for their shells to make products


What can you do to prevent turtles eating plastic bags?

Turtles mistaken plastic bags for jellyfish so they eat them for food but the plastic bag gets stuck in their throat so that the can't eat any more, therefor they die from lack of food.


What animal gets mostly stuck with the ocean pollution?

Turtles and sea birds eat floating plastic bags, thinking they are jellyfish.


Why is Loggerhead Sea Turtle endangered?

Loggerhead turtles have become endangered because they get tangled in old lost fishing nets and cannot come up to the surface to breath and they drown. They also choke to death when they mistake plastic bags for jellyfish or they try to eat other plastic objects.


What are green sea turtle favorite snack?

Sea Turtle's favorite snack is jelly fish.Since a jellyfish is a sea turtles favorite snack, sea turtles often eat plastic bags thinking there jellyfish and sea turtles die and their bodies get washed up on our beaches.


What may cause its extinction the sea turtle?

Pollution, strictly plastic bags. Leatherback sea turtles are the only animal that eats jellyfish. If this animal goes extinct, jellyfish will multiply rapidly.


What litter kills turtles?

plastic bags


What does rain do to ocean How does it effect the ocean?

by not dumbing garbge and food because some turrtels mistake bags plastic one for jellyfish answerd by awe$ome boy


Do sea turtles die by eating a bag?

Yes they most certainly do! They mistake bags for Jellyfish and swallow them, of course making them choke and 'die'. It is a truly awful death and must be stopped! Ha..