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by rpshen | August 20, 2008 at 07:33 am
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About 60 newly hatched sea turtles lost their way during their ritual passage to the sea and marched into an Italian restaurant instead, a conservation worker said on Monday.
The baby turtles -- which ended up under the tables of startled diners at the beachside restaurant -- were probably thrown off track and lured by the eatery's bright lights, said Antonio Colucci, who was called to help rescue the group.
"They saw the artificial lights and took the wrong route," said Colucci, who works on a turtle monitoring project for the conservation group WWF (World Wide Fund for Nature).
"The diners were at first quite curious and then someone alerted the coastal authorities."
The stranded turtles, which had hatched on a beach in the southern Italian region of Calabria, were released into the sea.
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at 16:19 on August 20th, 2008
stralsund , germany
meeresmuseum/Museum of seas
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at 17:18 on August 20th, 2008
Happy to share the photo in an effort to share the sea turtles' issues.
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at 17:24 on August 20th, 2008
Happy to share my sea turtle photo.
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at 17:53 on August 20th, 2008
Spotted whilst snorkeling on the Belize Barrier Reef.
nadia.benchabane has contributed a photo to this story.
at 18:15 on August 20th, 2008
rpshen, I like this story. It's good stuff.
at 18:19 on August 20th, 2008
This photo was taken at the New England Aquarium in Boston, MA.
Enjoy!
kjlarochelle has contributed a photo to this story.
at 18:31 on August 20th, 2008
Happy to share my sea turtle photos. These were taken at the NOAA Fisheries Service Galveston Conservatory in Galveston, TX.
at 18:33 on August 20th, 2008
Happy to share my sea turtle photos. These were taken at the NOAA Fisheries Service Galveston Conservatory in Galveston, TX.
Rinz0r has contributed a photo to this story.
at 19:13 on August 20th, 2008
Glad to share my photo too. It was taken off the coast of Maui.
at 19:47 on August 20th, 2008
My sea turtle photo is among several taken at the Texas State Aquarium in Corpus Christi.
at 19:59 on August 20th, 2008
My bad, should've signed in first. Anyways, mine was and is among several sea turtle photos taken at the Texas State Aquarium in Corpus Christi.
at 20:00 on August 20th, 2008
More than happy to provide a photo.
Photo Credit: Jay E. Robinson
robjamysan has contributed a photo to this story.
at 20:29 on August 20th, 2008
This photo was taken at the NOAA Turtle Barn in Galveston, TX.
sassyarts has contributed a photo to this story.
at 20:44 on August 20th, 2008
Glad to share my photo, taken in Durban, South Africa
at 21:06 on August 20th, 2008
These photos were taken at Gulf World in Panama City Beach, Florida.
Check out others like them at my flickr page.
at 21:24 on August 20th, 2008
More than happy to share my photo. Thanks for the invitation.
at 21:24 on August 20th, 2008
Hope you like the phono
Scott_J_ has contributed a photo to this story.
at 21:35 on August 20th, 2008
This picture of turtle was taken at New Orleans Aquarium on Aug 19,, 2008 by Max A. Miller Jr for me.
carlanne74 has contributed a photo to this story.
at 21:56 on August 20th, 2008
This photo was taken on a family trip to Sea World. Enjoy.
mbbillingsley has contributed a photo to this story.
at 23:05 on August 20th, 2008
These turtles photo were taken in the beautiful sea of Seychelles. Down there you can meet lot of these amazing animals: they are friendly ant not even afraid of you. You can swim with them very close and enjoy the grace of their movings
Spidervizz has contributed a photo to this story.
at 00:06 on August 21st, 2008
While driving along the north shore of O`ahu, my wife noticed that there were some large turtles on the beach so we stopped and took these photographs.
slmcmahon has contributed a photo to this story.
at 04:28 on August 21st, 2008
A "pip" (a partially hatched turtle) found when the Turtle Project 2008 excavated a Loggerhead Turtle nest on Alagadi Beach, Northern Cyprus
foxhill34 has contributed a photo to this story.
at 05:56 on August 21st, 2008
These pics were taken in West Palm Beach Florida in August 2008 by Michael F. Kirby. Hope you Enjoy my photos!
incuhead2000 has contributed a photo to this story.
at 06:20 on August 21st, 2008
Hi!
The photos that I took were taken in Aug 2008 at Galveston NOAA Research turtle barn. It was very educational to go and walk thru and hear how plastic bags can kill a turtle. The turtles stay there for 2-3 years then are released back into the wild. This is a great thing to help the population of the sea turtles. NOAA also helps with the testing of fishing nets to help protect the turtles. For more detail information here is their website: http://galveston.ssp.nmfs.gov/seaturtles/
Gotta love that cute face!!
Turtlebug
at 06:35 on August 21st, 2008
my photo was taken at the Baltimore National Aquarium in Baltimore, MD.
There was a diver in the pool feeding the sea turtle, as you can see in the pic the sea turtle is much bigger than the human is. Please do enjoy the photo & thanks everybody else for sharing too! Great story & glad to be a part of it! :-)
~PhotoShy
at 08:06 on August 21st, 2008
photo of a big sea turtle in south america. he was just lazing on the beach...
leadbunnies has contributed a photo to this story.
at 09:00 on August 21st, 2008
Baby Sea Turtle encountered while scuba diving off the coast of Bonaire Island in the South Caribbean. It was very people friendly and swam around us for most of the dive. It didn't seem scared of us...we could have touched it we got that close! See user id: bc320 at www.flickr.com for more underwater pictures :-)
BC320 has contributed a photo to this story.
at 09:00 on August 21st, 2008
Baby Sea Turtle encountered while scuba diving off the coast of Bonaire Island in the South Caribbean. It was very people friendly and swam around us for most of the dive. It didn't seem scared of us...we could have touched it we got that close! See user id: bc320 at www.flickr.com for more underwater pictures :-)
at 10:12 on August 21st, 2008
I am Happy to share my sea turtle photos.
The photos where taken on the Kona side of
the big Island of Hawaii.
at 10:53 on August 21st, 2008
this photo was taken off the island of Kauai
sarahracha has contributed a photo to this story.