Cheloniology (SEA TURTLES) with Camryn Allen
Ologies with Alie Ward
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Green Sea Turtle Surgery
Green sea turtles have one claw on each flipper. When the males reach sexual maturity, those claws start to grow so that they can hook onto the female's carapace and hold on. hawkspills actually have two claws on all flippers. And then their organs are all just laid out underneath their carapace... And their plastron. To do surgery on a turtle, does that ever happen? Oh yeah. Uh-huh. Most of the time when we do surgeries on turtles, it's actually to remove a flipper because it's got entangled in fishing line and it's dead.
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