The world according to me....

A few weeks ago, Wendy, Larisa and I were lucky enough to conduct a necropsy on a dead loggerhead turtle with some schoolkids who wanted to learn more about coastal marine ecology. They were all motivated enough to put up with the pungent odors produced by our specimen, which was already impressive. The questions they asked and the ideas they expressed were quite remarkable. My favorite statement of the day came from one of the kids who was talking about the different species of sea turltes. I asked him to name them all, and he had trouble recalling leatherbacks. I tried prompting him by saying that the forgotten species looked a bit different than the other ones. "Oh, now I remember!" he cried. "Leatherbacks! They look like watermelons."