Another hazard...
This leatherback was still nesting on the beach after sunrise when I took this photograph. There were dozens of big yellow flies biting her and sucking blood from the soft tissue around the neck and shoulders. But some flies were also focused on the pink-spot on the top of the head. The bite of these flies was shockingly painful, although they seemed largely to prefer leatherbacks to hairless apes in terms of prey.
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