Cheloniology (SEA TURTLES) with Camryn Allen
Ologies with Alie Ward
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Is Sea Turtle Soup Still a Threat to Turtles?
It depends on what sort of samples we need to collect. If they're adult turtles, we will tag them, measure them and take a photo then usually let them go. That's how we figure out which nesting beach they were born at. But if they're the immature turtles, like for my study, we need to bring them on board to collect a blood sample from them to figure out their sex. Do people eat sea turtle soup? People do still eat sea turtles and sea turtle soup. There are locations worldwide where people still collect and harvest eggs and will eat eggs as well. I often people don't just put it in soup. They will eat the muscle as meat and stuff too
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