“necropsies would be carried out to see whether the turtles’ deaths had anything to do with the explosion”
THE explosion or AN explosion? Singular or lpural? Natural or manmade?
I hate to hear that, I love turtle soup!
What the hell do they know about it?
Turtles are amphibians, not mammals.
Someone had better start a map of sea turtle sightings, live and dead, like this one off of Teddy’s home territory:
http://www.seaturtlesightings.org/viabilitymap.html
And here we have a man caused disaster, and our so-called president did nothing for 11 days, to try and stop the spill. If only they had gotten there sooner.
It's sad to see the sea animals die, we had massive die-offs in South Florida over the last winter, it was so cold even the coconut palms succumbed.
The face of the Obama regime.
"Brownie, you're doing a heckuva job!
OK. so the number of deaths ARE reasonably reported to be higher than normal, and not just by a headline writer at the Guardian: “Solangi said that until the results of the necropsies were known it would be impossible to tell whether the turtles had been killed by oil. He pointed out, however, that the number of deaths was much greater than normal, even at a time of year when sea turtles tend to come in closer to shore and are sometimes found washed up dead on the beach.”
But the comment about “red blood” staining the sand, coming from the mouth and other areas might suggest trauma. Dunno.
How sad and what a horrible way for an animal to die.
If only they would have stayed in the shrimp nets. TED’s fault.
This article appeared yesterday in another publication. However, these turtle deaths were occurring BEFORE the oil spill. I was wondering how long it would be before some publication started in on the disinformatsiya, pointing to the oil spill as the possible culprit.
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.
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.