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Gulf spill, day 85
Thursday, Jul 15, 2010
It's day 85 of the BP Gulf oil spill. The oil is still spilling, the animals are still dying, and it's hurricane season. And this week the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) this week began the long process of performing necropsies on the animals killed by the spill.
From the Herald Tribune:
Under the practiced knife of Dr. Brian Stacy, a veterinary pathologist, the specimen began to reveal its secrets: First, as the breastplate was lifted away, a mass of shriveled organs in the puddle of stinky red liquid that is produced as decomposition advances. Next, the fat reserves indicating good health. Then, as Stacy sliced open the esophagus, the most revealing clue: a morsel of shrimp, the last thing the turtle ate.
"You don't see shrimp consumed as part of the normal diet" of Kemp's ridleys, Stacy said.
Reports of Kemp's babies being released are a bright note in this all. We can only hope that the upcoming storm season does not effect their ability to survive.
The first sea turtle hatchlings whose eggs were moved from parts of the Gulf Coast threatened by the oil spill to the Kennedy Space Center in Florida have been released into the Atlantic Ocean. Jane Provancha, a biologist working on the turtle rescue, told The Associated Press that the newborn Kemps ridley sea turtles did well after their release.
Read the full article on the The New York Times website.
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