Lucky not so lucky
NZPA-Reuter Isla Morada Lucky the turtle will have to get by with only one front flipper. But that’s one more than she had a couple of weeks ago, and her keepers say she should do well. A Miami orthopaedic surgeon tried but failed yesterday to reattach a rubber flipper that fell off last week. Lucky, a 160 kg loggerhead, lost her natural paddling tools to a shark last year. Earlier this month, a surgeon, Dr Patrick Barry, gave her a new steel-belted pair made by a tyre company and a manufacturer of surgical implants. Dr Barry attempted to reattach the flipper yesterday, but concluded that the turtle’s left shoulder bone was too weak to support the implant. Lucky can swim well enough with the single flipper in her tank at the Theatre of the Sea, an aquatic attraction on the Florida Keys, but plans to return her to the ocean have been cancelled.
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