### animal:

Hatchling
* Most hatchlings eat food.
* Most hatchlings emerge from nests
  - onto the surface of the beach at night
  - end up on the losing end of the food chain
  - follow parents
  - get water
  - go through metamorphosis
  - grow into adults
* Most hatchlings have glands
  - ridges
  - reach water
  - receive water
  - survive exposure
  - use teeth
  - weigh ounces
* Some hatchling freckled pythons are ferociously nippy for the first few months of their life.
* Some hatchlings avoid predation
  - become worms
* Some hatchlings eat fish
  - turtles
  - emerge at nights
  - enter water
  - feed on crickets
* Some hatchlings have bands
  - fathers
  - gills
  - shells
  - never reach the oceans and are snatched up by hungry crabs
  - resemble adults, others have larval stages and successive molts
  - survive to adulthood
* also tend to move away from darkly silhouetted objects such as dunes and vegetation.
* are a favorite with herons
  - almost exclusively carnivores until they are older
  - also a favorite food of herons
  - altricial , naked with their eyes closed
  - chickens that have just hatched
* are extremely vulnerable to disease, ecological contamination, and sea predators
  - predation and other mortality factors
* are independent and rely on their natural instinct for finding food
  - at birth
  - omnivores, eating both plant and animal material
  - primarily carnivorous and become omnivorous as adults
  - very prone to dehydration
  - youngs
* attach themselves to vertically to submerged objects by an adhesive disc on their snout.
* avoid some predation by hatching and moving to the ocean at night.
* break shells.
* can die struggling to implant, and some embryos fail to hatch.
* dig burrows.
* easily tip over onto their backs, usually by climbing against the wall or over siblings.
  - insects and minnows and, as they grow, move on to consume crustaceans and large fish
* eat mostly insects and live in trees
  - small insects
  - small fish and insects, adults go after turtles and baboons
  - their nests at all phases of the moon and successfully find the ocean
  - mostly at night from eggs buried in beach sand and make their way to the sea
* face danger
  - many of the same predators and dangers that the eggs do, plus some
* fall into two main categories, nidicolous and nidifugous
  - prey to raccoons, ghost crabs, gulls, and a myriad of fish in alongshore waters
* feed on small fish, and crustaceans.
* find food.
  - very slowly and require a lot of food
* gulp air.
* have a heart-shaped carapace which becomes elongated as the turtle matures
  - sharp beak so that they can pip the egg open
  - very high mortality rates
* hide under logs and stones and are diurnal, likely because adults are cannibalistic.
* includes brains
  - cell membranes
  - cells
  - corpi
  - cytoplasm
  - faces
  - nuclei
  - plasma membranes
  - sections
  - skulls
  - vacuoles
* look like creatures
  - tiny adults, but they have no reproductive organs
* normally eat newborn mice.
* often dig side burrows off of the adult s burrow but sometimes dig their own burrow.
* possess an inborn tendency to move in the brightest direction.
* produce offspring.
* receive care
* require care.
* seem to feed mainly on other young snakes.
* start with their first meal being a hopper mouse.
* tend to congregate together in groups called pods.
* typically are diurnal , and spend the majority of their time hiding under logs and rocks.
* use a caruncle, a temporary egg tooth to break open their shells
  - the brightest light source as a way to navigate back to the ocean
  - their eyesight to determine the location of the moon, and crawl towards it
  - up a lot of energy in their frenzy to get to the ocean
* wait until nightfall to emerge and head for the water, to avoid predators.