Health & Environment

The Turtle With A Straw In Its Nose: The Story Behind The Viral Video

While examining one male turtle, she and her companions found a long plastic straw lodged in the turtle’s nostril.
November 18, 2015

 

Earlier this year, Texas A&M graduate student Christine Figgener traveled to Costa Rica to study ridley sea turtles for her doctoral dissertation. While examining one male turtle, she and her companions found a long plastic straw lodged in the turtle’s nostril. Her video of the team extracting the straw has received more than 5.5 million views on YouTube. This is the story behind that video.

More at the Texas Sea Grant College Program, the College of Science, the College of Geosciences and the Marine Biology program.

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