Turtles

Pet Turtles Linked to Rise in Salmonella Infections

They're banned for sale by law, yet many parents are unaware of health risks, experts say,,,, THURSDAY, Jan. 24 (HealthDay News) -- Small pet turtles were to blame for 103 cases of Salmonella infection in the second half of last year, mostly in young children, U.S. health officials s...

FDA Re-Emphasizes Warnings to Consumers on Risks of Pet Turtles

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is urgently reminding the public that contact with baby turtles can pose a serious health risk to infants//, small children, and adults with impaired immune systems as they can be natural hosts to Salmonella, a group of bacteria that can cause severe illness a...

Tampa Bay Veterinarian Featured in People Magazine's Heroes in Hard Times

...nd wildlife, as well as conduct veterinary clinical trials and community education efforts. Wildlife, including birds, squirrels, possums, egrets and turtles are brought in by Good Samaritans and then cared for by a veterinarian at the hospital. After medical care is provided they are released into the wil...

Salmonella Common In U.S. Poultry

... . In 2003, a human monkey pox outbreak was traced back to imported African Gambian rats that had infected prairie dogs sold as pets. And small pet turtles were responsible for 103 cases of salmonella infection in the second half of last year, mostly among young children, the report found. More inform...

New findings on emerging contaminants

...r colleagues have monitored PFCs in loggerhead sea turtles along the U.S. East Coast to study the effects of ...the pollutants on these marine animals. Loggerhead turtles accumulate PFCs in their tissues because they eat ...minants from the water. Kellers team found that turtles with high concentrations of PFCs showed signs of l...

China's biotech industry: An Asian dragon is growing

...ucts reach their intended markets, says Dr. Frew. The return of the sea turtles The report notes a strong focus on encouraging the return of Chinese sc...repreneurs who left the country to study or train abroad the so-called sea turtles who return with scientific talent and international credibility. While t...

US Baby Dies of Salmonella from Pet Turtle

...flea market. The 1975 law bans the sale of turtles with a carapace fewer than 10 centimeters (four inches) long. "Small turtles have posed a particular danger to young children because these turtles might not be perceived as health hazards and can b...

Phoenix Islands To Be Protected Under Global Conservation Map

...pecies of coral and 520 species of fish, some new to science. Nesting seabird populations, as well as healthy fish populations and the presence of sea turtles and other species, demonstrated the pristine nature of the area and its importance as a migration route. "It's a remarkable atoll marine wilder...

Turtles in Medical Dictionary

Splinter

... (TMNT), a character from the Teenage Mutant Ninja turtles series. ... Master Splinter , or simply Spli... a fictional character in the Teenage Mutant Ninja turtles universe. Splinter is a giant anthropomorphic ra... his master's art by ... Splinter named the four turtles Leonardo, Donatello, Raphael, and Michelangelo ......

Turtles in Biological News

No place like home: New theory for how salmon, sea turtles find their birthplace

CHAPEL HILL How marine animals find their way back to their birthplace to reproduce after migrating across thousands of miles of open ocean has mystified scientists for more than a century. But marine biologists at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill think they might finally have unra...

Study finds high mortality of endangered loggerhead sea turtles in Baja California

SANTA CRUZ, CA--Along the southern coast of Baja California, Mexico, scientists have been counting the carcasses of endangered sea turtles for a decade as part of an effort to assess and eliminate threats to loggerhead sea turtle populations. Their findings, published this week, are shocking: almo...

UNH researchers tag first-ever free-swimming leatherback turtles in New England

DURHAM, N.H. University of New Hampshire researchers have tagged one male and two female leatherback turtles off Cape Cod. They are the first free-swimming leatherbacks ever tagged in New England. The 700 800-pound leatherback turtles, an endangered species, were tagged July 17, 26 and 29 wit...

Leatherback turtles go with the flow

Not much is known about the world's largest living turtle, the leatherback. So-called for its tough, oily skin and lack of a hard shell, the behavior and habitats of this critically endangered turtle have remained a mystery. In this week's PLoS Biology , marine biologist Barbara Block and colleag...

Research shows loggerhead sea turtles threatened by small-scale fishing operations

Washington, DC. Ocean Conservancy Scientist, Wallace J. Nichols and University of California-Santa Cruz researcher Hoyt Peckham found surprising results in a recent peer-reviewed loggerhead sea turtle study that Nichols and Peckham conducted over the course of 10 years. The full study will be publ...

Revealing the evolutionary history of threatened sea turtles

It's confirmed: Even though flatback turtles dine on fish, shrimp, and mollusks, they are closely related to primarily herbivorous green sea turtles. New genetic research carried out by Eugenia Naro-Maciel, a Marine Biodiversity Scientist at the Center for Biodiversity and Conservation at the Amer...

Isotope analysis reveals foraging area dichotomy for Atlantic leatherback turtles

The beaches of French Guiana constitute a major reproduction site for leatherback turtles. This sea turtle, although a protected species, is threatened by human activity: it ingests plastics, get accidentally caught in fishing nets, sees its egg-laying sites destroyed and its adults hunted illegal...

US conservation efforts bring more marine turtles to UK

US and Mexican conservation efforts may have boosted the number of marine turtles visiting UK waters, according to University of Exeter biologists. New research by the University of Exeter and Marine Environmental Monitoring, published this week in Marine Biology (3 May 2007), analyses 100 years...

A dichotomy in migration patterns found for sea turtles in east Atlantic

Studying members of a large population of loggerhead sea turtles that nest on the Cape Verde islands off of West Africa, researchers have found an unexpected dichotomy in turtle behavior: While some turtles leave the nesting grounds to feed on bottom-dwelling sea life in shallow coastal waters, oth...

NOAA report finds threats to California's Cordell Bank Marine Sanctuary

...sanctuary's rocky reef and soft sediment habitats. The report notes that populations of rockfish, salmon, some seabird species, and leatherback sea turtles that use the sanctuary are depleted, but that fishery closures are helping to rebuild depleted fish stocks. The report indicates that additional re...

Turtles in Biological Definition

Herpetology

...ee-chambered one (four-chambered in the case of crocodilians), and living reptilians usually if not always lay eggs or give birth on land, even marine turtles which only come ashore for this purpose. Again, extinct creatures may have exhibited some differences. Apart from being an intrinsically interesting...

Marine biology

...others. Scientists were at a loss for quite a while as to the location of many species during different parts of their life cycles. In fact where sea turtles travel is still largely unknown. Tracking devices just don't work for some life forms, and the rigors of the ocean are not friendly to technology . ...

Thermoregulation

...ut of hibernation. Estivation occurs in summer (like siestas) and allows some mammals to survive periods of high temperature and little water (e.g. turtles burrow in pond mud). Daily torpor occurs in small endotherms like bats and humming birds which temporarily reduce their high metabolic rates to con...

Turtles in Biological Dictionary

Molecular phylogeny

.... vs molecular evidence; molecular sequences ... Course on Molecular Phylogeny . 2/5 ... Molecular Evidence for Higher Relationships Among turtles ... A combined phylogenetic analysis of molecular and morphological data for 23 ... Molecular phylogeny of Cichlidae ... Current research: M...

Herpetology

...t the University of Florida and the Florida Museum of Natural History are ... Promoting the preservation of amphibians, crocodilians, reptiles, and turtles through education and information. SSAR is the largest international herpetological society, and is recognized worldwide for having the most ... a ...

Carapace

...n a number of animal groups, including arthropods such as crustaceans and arachnids as well as vertebrates such as chelonians, order Testudines, turtles and... carapace ( ) n. Zoology. A hard bony or chitinous outer covering, such as the fused dorsal plates of a turtle or the portion of the exos...