Sea Turtle with Straw up its Nostril – "NO" TO PLASTIC STRAWS
Sea Turtle with Straw up its Nostril – "NO" TO PLASTIC STRAWS
This is the original video! Filmed by marine conservation biologist Christine Figgener, PhD.
***WARNING: Graphic Content & Inappropriate/ Strong Language!***
A research team led by Christine Figgener (Texas A&M University) found a male olive ridley sea turtle during an in-water research trip in Costa Rica. He had a 10-12 cm PLASTIC STRAW lodged in his nostril and they removed it. This video shows graphically why plastic waste is detrimental to marine life, especially single-use plastics (such as straws, which are one of the most redundant items). This turtle suffers from an item that is human-made and used by most of us frequently.
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THE FULL STORY:
My research team found a male Olive Ridley sea turtle during an in-water research trip in Costa Rica.
He had a 10-12 cm PLASTIC STRAW lodged in his nostril.
After initially thinking that we are looking at a parasitic worm, and trying to remove it to identify it, we cut a small piece off to investigate further and finally identified what we were REALLY looking at.
After a short debate about what we should do we removed it with the plier of a swiss army knife which was the only tool available on our small boat (not intended for overnight stays), since we were on the ocean, in a developing country, a few hours away from the coast and several hours away from any vet (probably days from any vet specialised in reptiles, not to mention sea turtles) and x-ray machines. Plus, we would have incurred a penalty (up to time in jail) on ourselves by removing the turtle since that is beyond our research permits. He did very obviously not enjoy the procedure very much, but we hope that he is now able to breath more freely.
The blood from the shoulder is from a 6mm skin biopsy we took previously to this event for a genetic study (part of our permitted research), which usually doesn’t bleed much, but which started bleeding while restraining the turtle.
We disinfected the air passageway with iodine and kept the turtle for observation before releasing him back into the wild.
The bleeding stopped pretty much immediately after the removal of the straw, and when we released him, he swam happily away.
The turtle very likely swallowed the straw while ingesting other food items and then either expelled the straw together with the redundant sea water through her nostrils or regurgitated the straw and it ended up in the wrong passageway. The nasal cavity of sea turtles is connected directly to the palate (roof of the mouth) by a long nasopharyngeal duct.
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RELATED LINKS
The Plastic Pollution Coalition launched a “No Straw” Campaign in collaboration with us.
Take the No-Straw-Pledge and learn more:
http://www.plasticpollutioncoalition….
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The Story behind the viral video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLN52…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4MPHb…
What are single-use plastic items?
http://www.greeneriepa.org/single-use…
http://singleuseplastic.co.uk/what-we…
What can you do?
REDUCE (REFUSE=STRAWS)/ RE-USE/ RECYCLE
http://www.recycling-guide.org.uk/rrr…
Organise your own beach cleanups!
An amazing plastic clean-up project is the TWO HANDS PROJECT, collect trash and post it on facebook!
https://www.facebook.com/twohandsproject
http://www.twohandsproject.org/
MORE INFO:
https://www.5gyres.org/
http://micro2016.sciencesconf.org/
http://www.kcet.org/news/redefine/red…
http://www.plasticchange.org/en/om-pl…
http:/theoceancleanup.com
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Contact Email: christine.figgener@tamu.edu
Christine Figgener, PhD
Pobre tortugita :'(
Porque hablan ingles y español ?
ว้าววววว
#savetheturtles
다들 싫어요. 눌러요!!!!!!! 내
Did you know that it’s not the straws that’s the problem it’s the people who use them that don’t know how to recycle
Oi gente Coitadinho do bichinho da coração por favor a gente tô tão triste com uma tartaruguinha dela mas como é que se como é que esse bicho vai entrar eu Coitadinho do bicho eu gosto de dormir todos os dias viu eu pensei que fosse o vídeo engraçada ia colocar kkk mas só que eu pensei que era o vídeo engraçado e aí coloca kkk entendeu mas só que eu vou tão triste quando eu tava dormindo gente da minha irmã tartaruguinha😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷
5:00
지금 할머니 거북이 가 피도나는대 291,422조아요 실화.
Fuck you
SONMALOSCOMOLEBA. aSER. E. SOAUNATORTUGA
🐢🐢🐢
FUCK THAT TURTLE I NEED DEM STRAWs TO SLURP MY COKE
😠😠
But what? WTF is this
I feel so bad for that 🐢 turtle that probably hurt like heck and probably hurt more trying to breath with that in her/his nose
SAVE THE TURTLES!!!!!
Ойойой
네
At least some people care thank god for people like u
Бедненький жалко
I feel so bad 🙁 oh no
Da do but gives relief also
sksksk and i oop save the turtles
This is like try not to look away challenge
Damn humans
싫어요 고작 30,308 이러면안대지 3000.897이야지 내
Tadinha vey
안 눌루면 싸이코임
할머니 거북이 죽을번 한거갔았어요.
Why didn’t they just put this poor animal to sleep
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtHaxi4GTYDpJgMSGy7AeSw
Humans need to realize that the Earth is made for them. If we keep trashing it we will eventually destroy ourselves!!!
🙁 this is so sad
You bloody hurt that baby turtle
ちゃんと はさんでやれよ 可哀そうに 下手くそ
저기요 싸이코 에요!?
Poor turtle😢
#dontthrowplasticintheocen
Poor baby.🥺
😭😭😭 save the turtle 🐢
Que tristeza que la gente no cuide si no que haga el mal miren esos pobres animales, como se estan muriendo gracias al estupido plastico , ! Cuiden porque despues no tendremos¡ que tristeza 😣😣😣😣😫😫😖😖😢😢😭😦😳
#savetheocen
I feel bad for the turtle and other sea creatures.
HE LOOKS SO HURT IT HURTS ME 🥺
edit: or she))
저 거복이 할머니 거복인대 게아프게다 ㅠㅠ
In crying from the turtle when she started crying
#helptheturtles
I feel like people forget that trashcans exist when I see things like this. It makes me sad.
I think its tha turtles fault just say’n