Book Fauna Palaestina 4 Year 2014 By Prof Dr Norman Ali Bassam Khalaf von Jaffa ISBN 978-9950-383-77-7

loggerheads eat jellyfish, floating molluscs, floating egg
clusters, squid, and flying fish (Wikipedia).
Loggerheads crush prey with their large and powerful jaws.
Projecting scale points on the anterior margin of the forelimbs
allow manipulation of the food. These points can be used as
"pseudo-claws" to tear large pieces of food in the loggerhead's
mouth. The loggerhead will turn its neck sideways to consume
the torn food on the scale points. Inward-pointing, mucuscovered
papillae found in the fore region of the
loggerhead's esophagus filter out foreign bodies, such as fish
hooks. The next region of the esophagus is not papillated, with
numerous mucosal folds. The digestion rate in loggerheads is
temperature-dependent; it increases as temperature increases
(Wikipedia).
A fisherman is carrying the Loggerhead Sea Turtle on the coast of Gaza,
State of Palestine. 28.08.2013. Photo by Ihab Fasfous (Dunya Al Watan,
2013).
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