Sea turtle Dylan back to the nature by Silvia Szarkova

An incredible gift! Some biologist and scientists would say this about the loggerhead sea turtle called Dylan, which was found nine years ago. In that time, Dylan was just born, she was wondering around abandoned by his nest mate. Now, she has just left the Georgia Sea Turtle Center at Jekyll Island. After a year-long period of preparing for life in freedom and after a nine years of captivity, Dylan was finally released to the sea on Monday. Maybe sometimes it was heart breaking to for biologists to see they baby is leaving, but Dylan has to return to its natural habitat to live full filled and valued life. In August 1998, humans find him struggling on Jekyll Island´s beach. Spending her lifetime in two different nature centers, she once moved to Georgia Aquarium and afterwards to Georgia Sea Turtle Center at Jekyll Island, where she was at last released from. This 150-pound loggerhead sea turtle is classified as a threatened specie. Seven another variety of sea turtles are endangered, too. When releasing, she could hardly find the way to the sea, but veterinarian Terry Norton, helped her to turn back to the sea, as 300 people were watching them from the beach. Norton said that although she was trying to swim out, she was confused by the shallow water and that is why she started to swim back to the beach. But finally, everything has gone well. During her stay in centre, the stuff recognized Dylan is a female. This is very important, because in most cases it is almost impossible to tell the age of turtle until it is 30. Another biologist from Georgia Department of Natural Resources Mark Dodd said Dylan is wearing a transmitter, which signals within 100 yards. It is set to start signalise when she surfaces. He also said about Dylan: “ The best thing for her would be to hang out here, get fat eating crabs and maybe 20 years from now we´ll see her again laying eggs.“

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by Silvia Szarkova for PocketNews (http://pocketnews.tv)

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