(3 Dec 2024)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Quincy, Massachusetts – 3 December 2024
1. Close up of a cold-stunned Kemp’s ridley sea turtle being examined at the New England Aquarium’s Sea Turtle Hospital
2. Overhead shot of Sea Turtle Hospital workers attending to stranded hypothermic animals
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Quincy, Massachusetts – 2 December 2024
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Adam Kennedy, New England Aquarium Sea Turtle Hospital:
"We are in our cold stunning season and in the past couple of weeks, we have seen over 257 turtles come to our facility for care. And in the past five days, we’ve actually seen more than half of those turtles arrive."
4. A Sea Turtle Hospital worker injecting a cold-stunned Kemp’s ridley
5. Close up of the animal receiving an injection
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Adam Kennedy, New England Aquarium Sea Turtle Hospital:
"Cold stunning is hypothermia for sea turtles, for reptiles. Because reptiles such as sea turtles are cold blooded, their body temperature is going to be the temperature of their surroundings. Right now, Cape Cod Bay is at 49 degrees. So those turtles out there at 49 when they’re normally at 75. So, we see these turtles very lethargic. They are floating at the top of the water and then the winds blow them in and they crash ashore and the folks find the turtles and they’re brought up for care."
7. Close up of a cold-stunned Kemp’s ridley receiving an injection of glucose
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Kristen Luise, New England Aquarium Sea Turtle Hospital:
“So, we have a cold-stunned sea turtle here who, based on the blood work, has a low blood glucose. So, we’re administering a mix of saline and dextrose into the vein to, hopefully, increase that blood glucose level.”
9. Close up of a Kemp’s ridley sea turtle floating in a recovery tank
10. Overhead shot of a newly arrived loggerhead sea turtle
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Adam Kennedy, New England Aquarium Sea Turtle Hospital:
"So, three types of sea turtles get stranded there in Cape Cod. You see the Kemp’s ridley sea turtle, which is a critically endangered turtle. And we see loggerhead and greens, both of which are threatened species."
12. Various of juvenile sea turtles swimming in a recovery tank
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Adam Kennedy, New England Aquarium Sea Turtle Hospital:
"We see mainly, you know, pretty much only juvenile turtles as they are moving from the open water or pelagic phase of their life where they’re out in the Gulf Stream. They move inshore as they start to age and get older, as they want to head down to where their breeding grounds are and the foraging grounds. And so they end up in Cape Cod Bay over the summer where it’s nice and warm and forage is plenty. And then unfortunately, as the fall and winter come, the turtles want to head south. But the shape of Massachusetts traps them into Cape Cod Bay."
14. Various of a newly arrived cold-stunned sea turtle being taken into a cold room to maintain their temperature in preparation for transfer into a relatively warmer holding tank
15. SOUNDBITE (English) Adam Kennedy, New England Aquarium Sea Turtle Hospital:
"So, when they arrive here at the hospital, they’re very debilitated. We see heart rates of anywhere between no beats detected to no less than ten. They’re very malnourished or really skinny. They’re very cold to the touch."
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Quincy, Massachusetts – 3 December 2024
16. Close up of a sea turtle undergoing an ultrasound examination
17. Sea Turtle Hospital workers performing an ultrasound examination
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Quincy, Massachusetts – 2 December 2024
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