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<div id='article-page'><div id='article-content' data-media-url='//news-app-staging.s3.amazonaws.com' data-base-url='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/5620/A9.wav' data-capture-url='//staging.analytics.lingraphica.com/events/capture_news' data-article-title='More Female Sea Turtles a Result of Floridas Hot Summers' data-article-id='6191'><script src='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com/javascripts/getscripts.js'></script><link rel='stylesheet' href='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com/stylesheets/article.css' type='text/css' /><div class='article'><p><span data-start-time='0' data-end-time='6375'>Florida’s sea turtle population is changing because of hot weather.</span> <span data-start-time='6375' data-end-time='19979'>Recent heat waves in the southern state have made the sand on the beaches so hot that almost of all the sea turtles born there are female.</span> <span data-start-time='19979' data-end-time='35438'>When a mother sea turtle digs a nest for her eggs on the beach, the temperature of the sand decides the sex, or gender, of the baby sea turtles, called hatchlings.</span> <span data-start-time='35438' data-end-time='49354'>Bette Zirkelbach is the manager of the Turtle Hospital in the town of Marathon in the Florida Keys, an archipelago off the southern coast of the state.</span> <span data-start-time='49354' data-end-time='61083'>Zirkelbach said that the past four summers have been the hottest on record in Florida, leading to more female sea turtles. </span> <span data-start-time='61083' data-end-time='74875'>Scientists that are studying sea turtle hatchlings and eggs have found no boy sea turtles, so only female sea turtles for the past four years.</span> <span data-start-time='74875' data-end-time='88563'>She said that an Australian study showed a similar effect in which “99 percent of the new sea turtle babies are female,” Zirkelbach said.</span> <span data-start-time='88563' data-end-time='97813'>NOAA is the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the U.S. government weather agency.</span> <span data-start-time='97813' data-end-time='112729'>NOAA’s National Ocean Service website says the sex of sea turtles is not determined at the time of fertilization, but by the temperature of developing eggs.</span> <span data-start-time='112729' data-end-time='124063'>So, if the sand is very hot and the eggs are above 31 degrees Celsius, the hatchlings will be female. </span> <span data-start-time='124063' data-end-time='133813'>If the temperature is below 27.7 degrees Celsius, then the turtle babies will be male.</span> <span data-start-time='133813' data-end-time='142708'>Melissa Rosales Rodriguez is a sea turtle keeper at the turtle hospital at the Miami Zoo. </span> <span data-start-time='142708' data-end-time='154438'>She said, “Over the years, you're going to see a sharp decline in their population because we just don't have the genetic diversity. </span> <span data-start-time='154438' data-end-time='163021'>We don't have the male-to-female ratio needed in order to be able to have successful breeding sessions.”</span> </p></div><div class='control-buttons-sticky' style='display:none;'><div class='control-buttons'><button title='Back' class='back' disabled='disabled'></button><button title='Play' class='play' disabled='disabled'></button><button title='Pause' class='pause' style='display:none;'></button><button title='Forward' class='forward' disabled='disabled'></button><button class='finished-reading' style='display:none;'>Done</button></div></div></div><div id='article-media'><div id='media-image'><img src='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/5620/A9.jpeg'/></div></div><div id='question-content' style='display:none;'><div class='sentence_completion_question question-container' data-question-id=18809 data-hint-location='49354' style='display:none;'><div class='question' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/5620/zirkelbach_said_that_the_past_four_summers_have_been_the_hottest_on__blank__in_florida_leading_to_more_female_sea_turtles_.wav'>Zirkelbach said that the past four summers have been the hottest on <span class='blank'>record</span> in Florida, leading to more female sea turtles. </div><div class='choices' data-correct-choice='record'><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/5620/record.wav'><span>record</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/5620/reply.wav'><span>reply</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/5620/echo.wav'><span>echo</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/5620/ratchet.wav'><span>ratchet</span></div></div></div><div class='multiple_choice_question 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