SOS from a turtle

A doctor examines Kincaid - Image from NBC Miami

Here is one turtle who has saved her own life. A sick loggerhead sea turtle took the initiative to check herself into a hospital when she was feeling down. The turtle, now named Kincaid by the hospital staff, arrived at the Turtle Hospital in Florida Keys, the only licensed hospital in the world that treats sea turtles.

The Florida Keys hospital is next to the harbor and staff noticed the turtle swimminginto the harbor. Kincaid wasn't given much attention immediately, because people thought she was just lost. But she stuck around for hours not moving from her place before someone noticed that her shell was covered with barnacles and looked emaciated. Finally the staff rowed out into the harbor in dinghies and brought her back and treated her for bacterial infection. She will soon be released back after her medication is over and she is fine enough to swim back.

Loggerhead sea turtles are an endangered species and South Florida has the largest population of loggerheads

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