Aquarium in the clutches; eggs cap astonishing yearBy Bo Petersen (Contact)
The Post and Courier
Saturday, August 23, 2008
Kelly Thorvalson was just about to turn out the lights for the night when she become a mother this month. At last count she was the mother of 88. Big Mama Pritchard, the largest loggerhead turtle to be admitted to the South Carolina Aquarium sea turtle hospital, laid the first shiny, white fertilized egg ever dropped by a loggerhead being treated there. Since that one dropped in early August, the turtle has continued to drop them, including nine on Friday. Thorvalson, the aquarium's turtle rescue program coordinator, and other staff are now "nesting" them in plastic buckets filled with sand. If they hatch, and the first clutch is due within a few weeks, it would be a capping moment in a surprising season of firsts for nesting sea turtles in the state. Read more in tomorrow's editions of The Post and Courier. |
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