Tests show another turtle confirmed to have ingested coins
By The Nation

 

 

BANGKOK: -- Nine more sea turtles at the Sea Turtle Conservation Centre on Munnai Island in Rayong have been examined to determine whether they had coins in their digestive system, with one turtle confirmed to have four coins in its stomach.

 

Dr Nantarika Chansue from Chulalongkorn University’s Veterinary Madical Aquatic animal Research Centre (VMARC) led a veterinarian team to perform a health check-up for the turtles, which came from the same pond as the green turtle “Ormsin”, or “piggy bank”.

 

Ormsin became famous after surgery was performed on the animal to remove coins from its digestive system. The turtle died soon after the procedure.

 

Nantarika said the VMARC and the Marine and Coastal Resources Department (DMCR) veterinarian team had conducted X-rays and blood tests on the nine turtles.

 

“The DMCR team leader will carry on with the treatment we discussed and we will continue monitoring them,” she said.

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/news/national/30311288

 

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Yep their certainly protecting them = thats the coins i mean 

Even the turtles are money hungry!

have to wonder if the good general cant use article 44 to stop thais throwing coins to the turtles to try to get them to eat them for good luck. 

Seems the problem is obvious and the solution simple. Stop the idiots from tossing coins! 

Edited April 5, 20179 yr by Skeptic7

How are they getting to eat all those coins?  Are they in a zoo, and people are throwing money at them? Or, are they wild ones? I never notices huge piles of coins on the beach before.

 

Also, just a few coins wound not cause them to die!  The coins would pass through their digestive system and come out the other end.  Turtles ingest small pebbles, stones and rocks as a way to help break up the food they eat... similar to what many birds do.. because they don't chew their food.