What is the full name for the disease that causes pap tumors?
Where do green sea turtles get their name from and why?
Having green fat due to a herbivorous diet and chlorophyll stored in fat layers
What is the most common age group seen in the hospital?
What is juvenile?
What is the scientific name of loggerheads?
What is Caretta caretta?
What are the release conditions for orphaned and cold stressed manatees?
600lbs, in winter at site where manatees congregate.
What is the name of the toxin that causes sea turtles to exhibit neurologic symptoms?
Red tide/Brevetoxin
What is the central exit that sea turtles have?
Cloaca
2 and 4 >:)
What is the smallest species of sea turtle?
What is Kemp's Ridley?
How do manatees look around?
By moving their entire body. Can't move head by themselves.
What is the phrase that describes how sea turtles travel back to the general area where they were born to reproduce?
What is "natal homing"?
What is unique about the heart of a sea turtle?
3 chambers - 2 atria, 1 ventricle
Who stranded offshore of Don Pedro Island?
Pistachio!
What is the largest hard-shelled turtle?
Green
How many stomachs does a bottlenose dolphin have?
What is 3?
How many eggs does a typical nest hold?
~110
What is the name for the small, sharp, keratinous extension hatchlings use to help break out of their shell?
What is a caruncle?
Which flipper gets a PIT tag?
LFF
What is the scientific name of Kemp's Ridleys?
Lepidochelys kempii
What is special about manatee lips?
They are prehensile - able to move independently of each other.
When was the Endangered Species Act established?
1973
What observable difference can be seen between male and female turtles that does not include tail length?
Plastron concave vs convex
What is the name of the surgery Brah received?
What is enucleation surgery?
How many species of sea turtles nest in FL?
What is special about manatee bones?
Lack bone marrow. Dense bones to help control buoyancy.