Cameron's first week of work was at the sea turtle conference, which happens every year. Shells are pretty much like a dome of fused vertebrae. They can't just ditch em and find another shell, any more than how our brains can crawl out of our own skulls into a new one.
Hope you dug tortoises because we’re back, shellin’ out the good stuff, with this week’s encore of sea turtles, so get ready to become wildly obsessed with them. Cheloniologist Dr. Camryn Allen met up with Alie on a tropical island (ok, in a hotel room on a tropical island) to chat about flipper slappings, turtle rodeos, nesting BBs, current surfing, endangered statuses, field work, sleeping under water, world records, boopable noses, male:female ratios, mind-boggling navigation, what you can do to help them, and the many mysteries that still remain. Take a deep dive into the world of seartles. Or is it surtles?
Follow Dr. Camryn Allen on Twitter
This week's donation was made to Hawaii Marine Animal Response
More episode sources and links
Sponsors of Ologies
Become a patron of Ologies for as little as a buck a month
OlogiesMerch.com has hats, shirts, masks, totes!
Follow @Ologies on Twitter and Instagram
Follow @AlieWard on Twitter and Instagram
Sound editing by Steven Ray Morris and Jarrett Sleeper of MindJam Media
Theme song by Nick Thorburn