Turtles have a jugular vein in their neck, which we call it the dorsal cervical sinus. It's easiest if you can get the turtle inverted slightly so that the blood rushes to that region. You collect the blood from the vein and the neck. Do they get a lolly pop or anything? And now, so monally harrowed er, i should really ask, from like, a field work perspective, how hard is it to get a blood sample on a turtle?
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?
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