South Carolina is home to a wide variety of habitat types, including hemlock-blanketed mountains, rolling sand hills, flooded cypress forests, and sunny palmetto-lined beaches. Another fascination are Sea Islands. Morgan Island, aka Monkey Island, is an uninhabited island in South Carolina that is home to the only free-ranging colony of Old World monkeys in the United States. There are around 3,500 monkeys on the island. Though law strictly prohibits people from going onto the island, the monkeys are often seen walking the beaches, sun bathing in the tree-tops, and in the marshes.
South Carolina is also home to a noteworthy reptile, namely, the loggerhead sea turtle. This is the most common sea turtle in South Carolina. The nesting season is just beginning and runs from mid-May to mid-August. Nests are typically made between the high tide line and the dune front, on ocean beaches and occasionally on estuarine (where a river meets the sea) shorelines with suitable sand. The average clutch size in South Carolina is 120 eggs, with the average incubation duration of 55 – 60 days. Loggerheads are named for the size of their head relative to their body. These sea turtles can be found hundreds of miles out to sea or in inshore waters such as bays, lagoons, salt marshes, creeks, ship channels, and the mouths of large rivers. Coral reefs, rocky places, and ship wrecks draw large amounts of marine life and are great feeding areas. Scientists believe that loggerheads are long lived and could live to 50 years or more.
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