Kelly Sloan, an intern working for the SC Department of Natural Resources, came up to NMB on July 28 to pick up our stranded turtle. She took the loggerhead back to Charleston and ran some tests to try to determine the cause of death. The more they learn about these animals, the better they understand the causes of illness and mortality. This was what she wrote:
"We did a necropsy of the Waites turtle at the aquarium and the consensus was that the initial boat trauma led to a slow death in this immature female. The veterinarian guessed that the prop wounds were at least a few weeks old. She was emaciated but had been eating horseshoe crab and blue crab. Other than that, there wasn’t much else to note."
No hatchings overnight, but it was a beautiful morning on the beach!
Posted by Barb and Steve
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