Bob the turtle recovers after pooping out plastic balloons
Bob, a green turtle is finally paddling its way to recovery almost one and half years after he was discovered injured on a beach in the De Hoop Nature Reserve, just outside of Cape Town in November 2014. The sub-adult green turtle was weak, dehydrated and had two fractures on his bottom shell when he was first found by Lieze Swart of the Department of Environmental Affairs (Oceans and Coasts). The injured reptile was subsequently brought to the Two Oceans Aquarium in Cape Town which also takes in injured marine animals to nurse back to health and release back into the ocean. Click the link to watch and read more about Bobs recovery…
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Crime & Punishment
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Miscellany
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Who’s Who…
John Edward Gray a British Zoologist (1800 – 1875). Gray was Keeper of Zoology at the British Museum in London from 1840 until 1874. He describe some of the following: The Dermatemydidae family of turtles, Heosemys grandis and Chelonoidis chilensis etc…
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Photo from Two Oceans Aquarium.
