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Turtle Stuck in Europe Freed in Tex. | Essentials

Turtle Stuck in Europe Freed in Tex.

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They named her Flip — a Kemp’s Ridley sea turtle found last December, stranded on the coast of Holland.   She was injured and stunned by the cold. But the scientists and animal lovers who rescued her took advantage of a key fact about Kemps’ Ridleys — that while they’re endangered, they are also among the world’s great long-distance travelers.   Specialists nursed her back to health, and released her into the water today — off the coast of south Texas. “We couldn’t have asked for it to go any better,” said Iain Scouller, the general manager of Sea Life Aquarium Grapevine, based near Dallas-Fort Worth.   “We set her loose at high tide, and off she went. ” A lot of effort went into the rescue of a single four-year-old turtle, but Scouller said it matters for a species very much in danger of disappearing.

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Iain Scouller

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0“It’s as much symbolic as anything,” he said. ...
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Donna Shaver

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0.237495“It is likely that most individuals remain in the Gulf of Mexico for their entire lives,” wrote Donna Shaver ...
0.180896“It is likely that most individuals remain in the Gulf of Mexico for their entire lives,” wrote Donna Shaver of the National Park Service, in an email to ABC News. “However, some juveniles are shunted out of the Gulf of Mexico through the Gulf Stream and travel up the Atlantic coast of the U.S. to forage in nearshore waters and bays as far north as Massachusetts.”
0.0900572Shaver has devoted much of her career to the preservation of sea turtles, and said it was rare, and risky, for a turtle like Flip to have gotten as far as northern Europe.  “There are only a few records of Kemp’s Ridleys being found stranded alive in this region. The waters there are too cold for their survival.”
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Karen Rifenbury

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Kemps

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Scouller.

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0.159719“This is much bigger than a single turtle,” said Scouller.  ...
0.159719“This is much bigger than a single turtle,” said Scouller.  “It shows that every one counts.”
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Region: Gulf of Mexico

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StateOrCounty: Massachusetts

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GeographicFeature: Ridley sea

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GeographicFeature: Gulf

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GeographicFeature: Atlantic coast

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City: Port Aransas

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City: Amsterdam

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Continent: Europe.

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Country: Holland.

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Country: U.S.

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Organization: National Park Service

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