Table 1:

Descriptive statistics of the body mass (in kilograms) of hawksbill turtles nesting in Rio Grande do Norte State, Brazil

Descriptive statistics	Body mass according to nesting event					Variation in relationship to first nesting event
	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	2nd	3rd	4th	5th
n	41	27	14	7	3	27	14	7	3
Mean	82.2	78.4	80.6	80.3	81.0	−4.4	−7.8	−9.5	−10.1
SD	11.7	10.6	8.3	8.2	1.8	3.7	4.7	3.6	3.5
Minimum	60.2	58.0	65.6	63.9	79.5	−18.5	−18.3	−15.1	−13.4
First quartile	72.8	69.6	74.6	75.1	79.5	−5.6	−10.4	−11.0	−13.4
Median	82.9	79.2	84.2	83.4	80.4	−3.6	−7.1	−10.4	−10.5
Third quartile	91.8	88.4	86.2	85.6	83.0	−1.6	−4.1	−7.3	−6.4
Maximum	103.4	92.3	90.5	87.2	83.0	−0.9	−1.2	−3.8	−6.4
P-value for Wilcoxon test (in relationship to the first nesting event)						<0.001	<0.001	0.016	0.250a

Negative numbers indicate mass loss. ^aNot significant because of the number of individuals that nested five times (n = 3).