Chulalongkorn University vets successfully remove coins from turtle

By The Nation

 

 

Veterinarians at Chulalongkorn University on Monday successfully operated on a 25-year-old female green turtle that had swallowed a large amount of coins.

 

The reptile was rescued from Chon Buri’s Sri Racha district and nicknamed Ormsin. 

 

Veterinarians They removed 915 coins from its stomach. Ormsin will stay in intensive care for two weeks before being transferred to the Royal Thai Navy's Sea Turtle Conservation Centre in Chon Buri to fully recover her health. The turtle will then be released into to the sea.

 

More photos of the turtle and coins after the operation.

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/news/breakingnews/30308091

 

-- © Copyright The Nation 2017-3-6

Turtles are nice 

31 minutes ago, TheFishman1 said:

Turtles are nice 

Thai people are nice as well, they give the turtle pocketmoney every day untill it collected about 5 kg of coins and couldn't swim to the 711 to buy banana's.  

 

It's name is "bank" so they all knew it was gonna eat all the coins thrown at it.

Seemingly the result of moronic ignoramuses throwing coins into the water for luck.

What did they use for good luck before coins?

Hoard of coins extracted from sea turtle

REUTERS
 

Officers count coins that were removed from the stomach of Omsin, a 25 year old femal green sea turtle, after a surgical operation at the Faculty of Veterinary Science, Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok, Thailand March 6, 2017. REUTERS/Athit Perawongmetha

 

BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thai veterinarians on Monday removed 915 coins from a 25-year-old sea turtle which had been swallowing items thrown into her pool for good luck, eventually limiting her ability to swim.

 

The coins and other objects removed from the turtle named Omsin - piggy bank in Thai - weighed 5 kg (11 lb). The turtle itself weighed 59 kg (130 lb).

 

The green sea turtle, living at a conservation center in Sriracha, Chonburi, east of the Thai capital of Bangkok, had been finding it hard to swim normally because of the weight.

 

The vets said they believed the seven-hour-long operation was the world's first such surgery.

 

"We think it will take about a month to ensure she will fully recover," said Nantarika Chansue, of Chulalongkorn University's veterinary science faculty, adding that the turtle would need six more months of physical therapy.

 

There was no immediate estimate of the value of the coins, some of them foreign and many corroded.

 

(Reporting by Juarawee Kittisilpa; Editing by Matthew Tostevin and Clarence Fernandez)

 

-- © Copyright Reuters 2017-03-07

2 hours ago, IAMHERE said:

What did they use for good luck before coins?

sacrificed virgins

Edited March 7, 20179 yr by taichiplanet

I hope that stash is used to pay part of the vet bill. 

12 hours ago, fruitman said:

Thai people are nice as well, they give the turtle pocketmoney every day untill it collected about 5 kg of coins and couldn't swim to the 711 to buy banana's.  

 

It's name is "bank" so they all knew it was gonna eat all the coins thrown at it.

Nothing like a pig