Nickel, the green sea turtle in the 90,000-gallon Caribbean Reef exhibit at the Shedd Aquarium, debuted at the aquarium 20 years ago this month, but her epic tale began a few years — a nickel’s worth — earlier.
) last year. Lots of turtles are making false calls and are confused because the vegetation is gone. So, they’re going places they shouldn’t be,” she said. “We’re having a rough year.”Kraus remembers making the 30-minute drive to Finn’s home due to the handwritten report she still holds onto.
“Most of sea turtles that sustain a vessel-strike injury die,” Foley wrote in an email to the Tribune. “So this turtle is very lucky in that regard.” Harman calls a turtle in this condition a “floater” since it probably had some spinal damage from the boat strike that made it impossible for it to dive and stay submerged.
Since Pete was incapable of finding food in the wild due to its inability to dive for seagrass on the sea floor, it had to remain in captivity. Visitors to the Clearwater aquarium watched the light green turtle with a healing shell swim happily with its peers.Nickel, a green sea turtle rescued near Goodland, Florida, swims the waters of the Shedd Aquarium's Caribbean Reef exhibit in its debut in 2003. Volunteer diver Stephanie Baranko, right, is seen feeding fish.
Pete had an X-ray taken and some blood drawn as part of an evaluation. That’s when the turtle was found to be female.
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