Loggerhead Sea Turtles! Why Have Over 160 Needed Rescue In Texas This Year?

Published on the YouTube channel The Wild Side with Clay the 23.07.2022. | By: Clay Carabajal

At the Amos Rehabilitation Keep, Clay Carabajal investigates why over 160 loggerhead sea turtles have already needed rescue this year.

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Note: Modern zoos and aquariums are often the only chance of survival for the endangered loggerhead sea turtles. In many places, experts save them, take care of them, and release them back into the wild if possible or, if a release would kill the animals, keep them under their care. Turtle Frederica is one of these long-term patients. She lives in Loro Parque in Tenerife – seen from Texas – on the other side of the great pond:

Turtles like Frederica could not survive without zoos & aquariums.