Shark-inflicted injury frequencies, escape ability, and habitat use of green and loggerhead turtles

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Predator lethality, optimal escape behavior, and autotomy (2010, background): “We have presented L as probability of death on contact, but predators sometimes have important sublethal effects, notably injury (Arnold 1988; Heithaus et al. 2002; McCarthy and Dickey 2002).”
Home range and habitat use of juvenile Atlantic green turtles (Chelonia mydas L.) on shallow reef habitats in Palm Beach, Florida, USA (2006, background): “Sharks are the primary marine predators for both adult and juvenile sea turtles (Marquez 1990; Stancyk 1995), and the nearshore waters of Southeast Florida inhabit two (the bull shark, Carcharhinus leucas, and the tiger shark, Galeocerdo cuvier) of the most common turtle predators (Compagno 1984; Wi”
Characteristics of a manta ray Manta alfredi population off Maui, Hawaii, and implications for management (2011, background): “%) had an injury that appeared to have been caused by a shark attack based on wound characteristics described for shark predation on marine mammals and turtles (Corkeron et al. 1987, Heithaus 2001, Heithaus et al. 2002).”