A local poacher hides at the beach to capture female turtles as they swim ashore to lay eggs. Two of your female turtles are captured and die.

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1 A local poacher hides at the beach to capture female turtles as they swim ashore to lay eggs. Two of your female turtles are captured and die. Shore birds come to your island for lunch! Large turtles are too big to eat, and small ones can fit in spaces between rocks to hide, but the birds eat one of your medium sized turtles. A large crab on the shore is no threat to the medium or large turtles. It can only eat the small turtles, and it captures all of yours. Global warming causes algae blooms that make the water look darker. Sharks can t see the dark turtles, but they eat two light colored turtles. Over-fishing causes a lack of fish in the ocean near your island. Turtles with webbed feet can swim faster and capture the fish that remain, but one of your turtles without webbed feet starves to death. Raccoons come to your island. Turtles with no webbing are faster on land and get away, but one of your webbed feet turtles is too slow and gets eaten. Fishermen throw their nets out in the middle of the ocean. Small and medium-sized turtles can fit through the netting, but all of your large turtles get stuck and are left to die. People leave their trash on the beach, which attracts predators. Two of your turtles die. One of your turtles finds an old grocery bag in the water, tries to eat it, and dies.

2 Deforestation removes many trees and foliage from the island. The light turtles blend in with the light sands, but the dark colored turtles can no longer hide in the leaves and two dark colored turtles are eaten by a fox. A nearby plastics company releases their waste into the water. Chemicals that resemble estrogen (endocrine disruptors) cause two of your male turtles to become sterile and then die. An oil spill kills three of your turtles.

3 Lif Lif Lif A new law is passed to prevent overfishing near your island. Because of the extra food and energy, your turtle has one extra offspring. A new law is passed to prevent construction near your island. Because of the extra food and energy, your turtle has one extra offspring. Volunteers help protect eggs from predators and poachers. Your turtle has two extra offspring.

4 A new housing development builds on your island and depletes your habitat s space and food. One of your turtles dies of starvation. Fertilizers in the water cause the fish population to decrease. One of your large turtles starves to death A pet bullfrog species is released onto your island. They take habitat space and food that was normally yours. One turtle dies of starvation. Farmers on your island decrease their use of fertilizers. Because of the extra food and energy, your turtle has one extra offspring. People stop eating turtle eggs at fancy restaurants, and poachers lose their jobs and stop capturing turtle eggs. Your turtle has one extra offspring. Offshore drilling for oil is made illegal. Without the regular oil spills, the water is cleaner and more organisms can thrive. Because of the extra food and energy, your turtle has one extra offspring. A non-native fish species is released onto your island. They eat the fish that your turtles normally eat. One turtle dies of starvation. Volunteers clean up the beach. Fewer predators come to the beach, so your turtle has one extra offspring. A new boardwalk is constructed along the beach on your island. Two of your turtle s habitats are destroyed, and one turtle dies.

5 One of your turtles d alleles is mutated, causing your dd turtles to be hot pink rather than light. All predators can now see you and you will get eaten in addition to the other turtles if you encounter any predators in your lifetime. One of your turtles d alleles gets a freckle. It is not passed down to future generations. One of your turtles f alleles is mutated, so that ff individuals have modified webbed feet, so that it can swim quickly but also run quickly on land. It escapes all predators. One of your turtles F alleles is mutated and it has claw-like extensions on its feet rather than webbing. It can hunt better, so it does not die of starvation. One of your turtles gets a mutation on its Y chromosome that makes it more likely to develop fibropappiloma tumors. It has more difficulty eating and will die of starvation if any issues threaten its food supply. One of your turtles f alleles is mutated, which causes your turtle to have a longer tail. This does not help or harm your turtle, but it does get passed through generations.