Science. 1984 Apr 6;224(4644):83-4. doi: 10.1126/science.224.4644.83.
Sea turtles (Lepidochelys kempi) are being artificially imprinted to Padre Island, Texas, in an effort to establish a new nesting population. These turtles spent more time per exposure in solutions made of Padre Island sand and seawater than in control solutions in a multiple-choice test. This is evidence that sea turtles may detect differences in natural water samples and remember olfactory cues to which they were exposed neonatally and that these differences may affect their orientation behavior. This suggests that imprinting could be used as a conservation technique for establishing new breeding populations of endangered sea turtles.
棱皮龟（Lepidochelys kempi）正在被人为地引入德克萨斯州的帕德雷岛，以建立一个新的筑巢种群。在一项多项选择测试中，这些海龟在由帕德雷岛沙子和海水制成的溶液中暴露的时间比在对照溶液中长。这表明，海龟可能能够检测到天然水样中的差异，并记住它们在新生期暴露过的嗅觉线索，而这些差异可能会影响它们的定向行为。这表明，印记可以作为一种保护技术，用于建立濒危海龟的新繁殖种群。
