To date, profile stability has been indirectly evaluated
for 1046 days for green sea turtles (Reisser et al., 2008) and for
1155d on hawksbill sea turtles (Dunbar et al., 2014),which are relatively
short periods of time considering the highly migratory nature of turtles
and the potentially long time intervals between individual resightings.
Féliz et al. (2010) also noticed the stability of facial scale patterns
on a hawksbill individual for ∼6 years, but acknowledged a change
in colormarkings in successive sightings.