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Deepwater oil spill: turtle deaths soar amid fight to save wildlife
Guardian UK ^ | May 3, 2010 | Ed Pilkington

Posted on 05/03/2010 12:51:02 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

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To: humblegunner

“Institute of Sea Mammal Studies”

Institute of Marine Mammal Studies?


21 posted on 05/03/2010 1:21:42 PM PDT by ColdWater ("The theory of evolution really has no bearing on what I'm trying to accomplish with FR anyway. ")
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To: beaversmom

OK, that’s funny.


22 posted on 05/03/2010 1:28:09 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Damn, that’s more turtles than I knew were ever in the entire Gulf of Mexico. I wonder what attracts them to the localized oil spill, which only occupies less than 1% of the Gulf of Mexico.

Try to find a turtle from Port Arthur to Mobile during good fishing weather.


23 posted on 05/03/2010 1:31:39 PM PDT by Cvengr (Adversity in life and death is inevitable. Thru faith in Christ, stress is optional.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

This is just sad. Sea Turtles don’t die of old age and have a hard time reproducing. I hate to hear of them dying from this.


24 posted on 05/03/2010 1:32:18 PM PDT by autumnraine (America how long will you be so deaf and dumb to the chariot wheels carrying you to the guillotine?)
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The laughable thing is that the media has glossed over the irony that Napolitano presided over the 2003 Phoenix Gas crisis:

"The governor says she was misled. Three days before the pipeline was shut down, Governor Napolitano departed on a 7 day raft trip down the Colorado River. On Friday, August 15, as gas lines were beginning to form in Phoenix, she departed for the annual National Governors Association Conference in Indianapolis, scheduled to run through Monday, August 18. She would later say that Kinder Morgan had assured her that there would be only "spot shortages" of fuel. On the basis of those assurances, at a press conference on August 13, she predicted that there would be some outages at independent stations, but that there would be no widespread shortage.

About 1:30 PM on Sunday, Governor Napolitano returned to her room from a seminar on the economic allure of biotech companies to return a phone call. The news she heard was not good. While she was away, long lines were forming at gas stations. The prediction that there would be no widespread shortages was turning out to be seriously in error. Seventy percent or more of stations in the Phoenix area were out of gas."

25 posted on 05/03/2010 1:40:03 PM PDT by Joe 6-pack (Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
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To: Blueflag

Didn’t they fix that deal with the turtles so that they are now an order of their own, not mammals or reptiles or birds at all ~ just turtles, and you know what that means ~ IT’S TURTLES ALL THE WAY DOWN!


26 posted on 08/31/2010 10:37:52 AM PDT by muawiyah
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Kingdom - Animalia
Phylum - Chordata / Vertebrata
Class - Reptilia
Order - Testudines <— Chelomia
Two primary sub-orders: Cryptodira (sea turtles, snapping turtles et al.) and Pleurodira
Family - Chelonioidea

You’re on your own below that. Lotsa Genera.

Most people know the green turtle - Chelonia mydas

They’re still reptiles.


27 posted on 08/31/2010 10:58:31 AM PDT by Blueflag (Res ipsa loquitur)
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