Endangered Sea Turtle Is Swimming Again After Researchers Create Prosthetic Flipper
Researchers in Bangkok have helped an injured sea turtle swim again with an innovative artificial flipper. It was built considering the animal’s injury, weight and swimming style. The prosthesis offers hope to other turtles trapped and maimed by fishing nets. A Thai endangered sea turtle which lost its flipper after getting tangled in a fishing net is swimming with ease again after receiving a prosthetic limb.
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PHUKET, Thailand – Thai turtle Goody lost her left flipper years ago after she was entangled in a fishing net, leaving her immobile and stressed out in captivity. But now Goody, an endangered olive ridley sea turtle, can swim with ease again, after receiving Thailand's first prosthetic flipper.