Loggerhead turtles can maintain a body temperature several degrees warmer than their environment. Stomach temperature data were compiled in order to see how the female loggerhead turtle adapted her body temperature to the different water temperatures near the frontal zone. She passed from the warm water into the cooler water and out again. In the cooler water, the stomach temperature gradually went down. Although this was largely due to thermodynamic transfer of heat from the skin, it was also

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... ound that the female loggerhead turtle drinks cold water during a deep dive, thereby cooling body temperature from the inside.