Posted on 12/21/2021 11:07:55 AM PST by Joe 6-pack
The National Aquarium, in Baltimore, Maryland, rescued 30 cold-stunned sea turtles from Cape Cod, Massachusetts, in November.
The turtles were stabilized at the New England Aquarium’s Animal Care Center and were then transferred to Baltimore, according to a news release.
Twenty-six Kemp’s ridely and four green sea turtles were examined in Baltimore after suffering symptoms from cold stunning: pneumonia, dehydration, emaciation, shell and skin lesions, eye lesions and blood infections, the news release said.
The aquarium’s Animal Health and Rescue teams said they will monitor the turtles, with the end goal being to return the animals to the wild.
Every year, the aquarium picks a theme for naming the turtle patients — this year, the names are all musical instruments. The green sea turtles are on the horn and brass sections: Tuba, Trombone, Trumpet and Cornet. The Kemp’s ridley sea turtles were named Triangle, Maraca, Kazoo and Viola.
Since 1991, the aquarium’s rescue team has rehabilitated and released 332 animals, including 270 endangered sea turtles. The aquarium rescues stranded marine mammals and sea turtles up to 3,190 miles of Maryland’s coast year round.
Anyone who finds a marine mammal or sea turtle in distress can call the National Aquarium’s Stranding 24/7 Hotline is 410-576-3880.
no turtle soup for you-
Cool.
“Climate change . . .” something, something.
That was a very nice thing for this Aquarium to do, but if these 30 turtles were ‘stunned’ by the cold, only the strongest of them will survive. Those that perish were not suited for that region of the country. This weather is a natural occurence.
The hard fact is every species will eventually go extinct unless they can somehow adapt, including our own human species.
Yeah, this story has to be false. We all know that climate change is out-of-control to the point icebergs are melting threatening flooding along all of the world’s coastlines.
Polar bears will have to swim further south to feed turtles!
My wife didn’t think the graphic was funny when she was making up the bed.
“The hard fact is every species will eventually go extinct unless they can somehow adapt, including our own human species.”
Fact? FACTS! Is that all you got you cold heartless bast*rd?
What about feeelings? Don’t they matter? Ya know these Turtles could be somebody’s mother.... or something......
So glad they were saved. I happen to like animals better than people, with a few exceptions.
Newspeak requires the use of “Climate Change” and it can do anything and everything.
That said, I posted this mostly as a shot at the global warming crowd who have been telling us the seas are warming, polar caps melting, etc., but your comment does beg a question.
Two of the eco-left's big principles are an atheistic interpretation of Darwinian evolutionary theory and the case that human disruption/interference with, "nature," should be minimized in every way possible (including human depopulation). This begs the question, that if evolution truly is the, "natural course," of things, aren't our efforts to preserve and protect endangered animals disruptive of, and potentially damaging to the natural order?
You just don’t understand science, you denier. The global warming melts the iceberg, and the cold water run off reduces the temperature of the oceans, and cools the earth. This causes more ice to form, and the cycle repeats. Causing turtles to catch cold, and the oceans to rise. Except around Martha’s Vineyard
Get it now?
In other news, Cape Cod locals upset that their annual turtle soup festival is without its centerpiece.
So since 1991 they’ve rescued about 10 animals per year.
How are they going to evolve if they keep doing sh!t like this? Two or three survive and their offspring will be living on glaciers.
I told the waiter I wanted turtle soup. And make it snappy.
LOL :)
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