FedEx Custom Critical Transports Sea Turtle Nests From Oil Spill

[layoutshooter]

NOOOoooo, not that Turtle! lol

I know snapping turtles have like 5 different meats, beef, chicken, pork and a few I cann't remember, maybe I blocked it out.....Oh, maybe frog legs...

Frog legs? Head over to the "Frog Leg Inn" in Erie, MI. Small, quiet, great food. You really should head over to "Trapperz" and try the turtle soup, it is wonderful. Nothing at all what you would think it would be like.

Couple of links:

Trapperz Tavern - Welcome
Frog Leg Inn Restaurant

 

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I've been following this story since it began, from Gulf newspapers to newspapers near the Kennedy Space Center (where the incubators were in storage), to the rather good coverage from Discovery.com. Once the turtles hatch out in the incubators, they get taken down to the beach and released. The first couple of hatching have already been released.

Now science gets to watch what happens to these turtles, who had zero chance of survival if left to swim out into the Gulf, but who have a magnetic homing beacon to let them know to return to where they hatch when it comes time to lay their own eggs. Will they find their way back to the Gulf, or to Cape Canaveral? Time will tell.

 

[layoutshooter]

I've been following this story since it began, from Gulf newspapers to newspapers near the Kennedy Space Center (where the incubators were in storage), to the rather good coverage from Discovery.com. Once the turtles hatch out in the incubators, they get taken down to the beach and released. The first couple of hatching have already been released.

Now science gets to watch what happens to these turtles, who had zero chance of survival if left to swim out into the Gulf, but who have a magnetic homing beacon to let them know to return to where they hatch when it comes time to lay their own eggs. Will they find their way back to the Gulf, or to Cape Canaveral? Time will tell.

It will be interesting. When salmon smolts are transplanted they "imprint" on the new "home stream" and return there to spawn. This has been seen time and again in Michigan when salmon were taken from salmon hatched in hatcheries on Lake Michigan streams fed by those waters. They were raised in those west coast stream hatcheries waters until they were 4-6" long then stocked in Lake Huron streams on the the east coast. This will be an interesting study.

 

[ConfusedMuse]

Hey congratulations to all involved. and as for the money aspect wth, you don't think BP isn't getting some cash on the side, somewhere? Do you really think it would have taken as long to clean up if it happened on England's shores? Beside's it's about time that the general public sees that us commercial drivers are capable of doing something as critical as this,and doing it well.
We have to get a better TV setup, the papers we read on the road didn't cover any of this:-(