The world according to me....

One of the nice things about being in North Carolina is that there are so many other great people here who work on turtles (for example: Larisa, Michael, Catherine, Kelly, just to name a few). Recently, Amanda Southwood took a position at UNC-Wilmington, adding to the list. She recently invited me down to share some turtle carcasses with the students in the class that she is teaching. Note above how far away that they are standing when we first started to work on the turtles. Their shyness mostly evaporated after a few minutes, and almost everyone jumped in to get a closer look at the internal anatomy (see below). Thanks to Heather Koopman and Amanda for the photos.
Oh yeah, the turtles were a juvenile Kemp's ridley and a juvenile green turtle - both had lots of food in their GI tracts and both were female.