{"id":12042,"date":"2012-11-30T13:29:18","date_gmt":"2012-11-30T18:29:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/?p=12042"},"modified":"2012-11-30T16:20:18","modified_gmt":"2012-11-30T21:20:18","slug":"turtle-journal-rescues-rare-hybrid-sea-turtle-on-cape-cod","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/?p=12042","title":{"rendered":"Turtle Journal Rescues Rare Hybrid Sea Turtle on Cape Cod"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Post-Juvenile-Loggerhead-Saints-001.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12046\" title=\"Post Juvenile Loggerhead Saints 001 480\" src=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Post-Juvenile-Loggerhead-Saints-001-480.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"398\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Post-Juvenile-Loggerhead-Saints-001-480.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Post-Juvenile-Loggerhead-Saints-001-480-300x248.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em><strong>Cold-Stunned Juvenile Loggerhead-Green Hybrid<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Wind and surf continue to pound Cape Cod Bay beaches, depositing cold-stunned sea turtles with each high tide in numbers beginning to presage a record stranding season.\u00c2\u00a0 Turtle Journal&#8217;s Sue Wieber Nourse and Rufus chugged out to Brewster this morning and searched the shoreline east of Saints Landing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Post-Rufus-and-Saints-Loggerhead-480.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12051\" title=\"Post Rufus and Saints Loggerhead 480\" src=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Post-Rufus-and-Saints-Loggerhead-480.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"506\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Post-Rufus-and-Saints-Loggerhead-480.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Post-Rufus-and-Saints-Loggerhead-480-284x300.jpg 284w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Rufus Finds Juvenile Loggerhead-Green Hybrid<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">As they approached Breakwater, Rufus spotted a helpless sea turtle trapped in the forthy surf.\u00c2\u00a0 Sue and Rufus plunged into the waves and lugged this young\u00c2\u00a0hybrid to safety &#8230; with Sue providing the muscle and Rufus barking encouragement.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"480\" height=\"360\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/qiPDFH84vPA?version=3&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed width=\"480\" height=\"360\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/qiPDFH84vPA?version=3&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Stranded\u00c2\u00a0Loggerhead-Green Hybrid\u00c2\u00a0in Brewster<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Out of danger\u00c2\u00a0from the surf, the juvenile sea turtle responded to Sue&#8217;s\u00c2\u00a0touch with positive signs of life.\u00c2\u00a0 Clearly, an unusual specimen, Sue examined it carefully to determine its species.\u00c2\u00a0 The massive neck musculature indicated loggerhead, but shell patterns and shape\u00c2\u00a0seemed to point to a green sea turtle.\u00c2\u00a0 Later, at the Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary, Director Bob Prescott and Sue settled on a preliminary identification of this sea turtle as a hybrid loggerhead-green.\u00c2\u00a0 Bob took a tissue sample for DNA analysis.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/POST-Juvenile-Loggerhead-003-sneaker.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12045\" title=\"POST Juvenile Loggerhead 003 sneaker 480\" src=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/POST-Juvenile-Loggerhead-003-sneaker-480.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"542\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/POST-Juvenile-Loggerhead-003-sneaker-480.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/POST-Juvenile-Loggerhead-003-sneaker-480-265x300.jpg 265w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Small Juvenile Loggerhead-Green\u00c2\u00a0Sea Turtle<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">For rudimentary field measurement, Sue put her sneaker near the turtle&#8217;s carapace to get an approximate size; in this case,\u00c2\u00a0maybe around 14 inches straight-line length.\u00c2\u00a0 Yet, with its massive muscles, it weighed more than 15 pounds and took a yeoman&#8217;s effort for Sue to lug it nearly a mile from the beach to the Turtle Journal car.\u00c2\u00a0 The juvenile hybrid will be transported to the New England Aquarium for treatment.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cold-Stunned Juvenile Loggerhead-Green Hybrid Wind and surf continue to pound Cape Cod Bay beaches, depositing cold-stunned sea turtles with each high tide in numbers beginning to presage a record stranding season.\u00c2\u00a0 Turtle Journal&#8217;s Sue Wieber Nourse and Rufus chugged out to Brewster this morning and searched the shoreline east of Saints Landing. 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