{"id":96944,"date":"2024-05-29T10:14:21","date_gmt":"2024-05-29T14:14:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/?post_type=news&#038;p=96944"},"modified":"2024-05-29T10:14:21","modified_gmt":"2024-05-29T14:14:21","slug":"on-world-turtle-day-kemps-ridley-returned-to-the-ocean-after-months-of-care-and-rehabilitation","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/news\/on-world-turtle-day-kemps-ridley-returned-to-the-ocean-after-months-of-care-and-rehabilitation\/","title":{"rendered":"On World Turtle Day, Kemp&#8217;s ridley returned to the ocean after months of care and rehabilitation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Kemps_ridley_sea_turtle_Annette_Weston.png\" alt=\"Dr. Dan Dombrowski holding the Kemp's ridley sea turtle he helped rehabilitate from a cold stranding event.\" \/><span style=\"font-size: 0.85em;\">Dr. Dan Dombrowski holding the Kemp&#8217;s ridley sea turtle he helped rehabilitate from a cold stranding event. Photo: Annette Weston\/Public Radio East.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.publicradioeast.org\/people\/annette-weston-riggs-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Annette Weston<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Sea turtles are among the most captivating creatures found on the eastern North Carolina coast, and one was recently set free after being nursed back to health; it was stunned by unusually cold weather early this year and also had other injuries.<\/p>\n<p>World Turtle Day was also homecoming day for a Kemp\u2019s ridley sea turtle after several months of care by the Chief Veterinarian at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/staff\/dan-dombrowski\"><strong>Dr. Dan Dombrowski<\/strong><\/a> says sick or injured turtles found along the North Carolina coast are generally cared for by the North Carolina Aquariums, a division of the North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources, but the museum is also a Sea Turtle Assistance and Rehabilitation (STAR) Center and they work closely together when it\u2019s needed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We help them when we can to rehab sea turtles like this one. So, they got a large number of turtles in a cold stranding event in beginning of this year. They reached out and we coordinated with them to help three of the sea turtles, Kemp&#8217;s ridley turtles that were in that cold stranding event.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.publicradioeast.org\/2024-05-28\/on-world-turtle-day-kemps-ridley-after-months-of-care-and-rehabilitation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the full article on Public Radio East<\/a><\/h3>\n<hr class=\"cleardiv\" \/>\n<p><em>For more information about our upcoming activities, conservation news and groundbreaking research, follow @NaturalSciences on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/naturalsciences\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Instagram<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/naturalsciences\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":96946,"menu_order":0,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/96944"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/96944\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/96946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}