Lilu - Israel's sea turtle monitoring program

A project of Israel Nature and Parks Authrity.

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Background

Lilo is a sub-adult Loggerhead sea turtle. She arrived at the center in March 2018 after drowning in a trawler net. Upon arrival Lilo was very weak and her breaths were quick and shallow. Given the respiratory distress we suspected that Lilo had drowned and therefore inserted a tube down her breathing canal to help her breath. Through the tube we suctioned sea water from her lungs which confirmed our diagnosis. Lilo underwent a special procedure to wash the salts and mucus left in her lungs and that same evening was already breathing oxygen enriched air on her own. Over the next couple of weeks Lilo was treated with antibiotics to insure her injury wouldn't develop into an infection and was x-rayed to insure there were no more injuries. Now that Lilo is breathing normally and eating on her own she is ready to go home.

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• This map connects positions generated by the ARGOS system designated as location class (lc) '4', '3', '2', '1'. Locations that have been "filtered" are displayed as small red dots.
• This maps also shows locations of class '0', 'A', 'B', 'Z', 'X' as small black dots which are not connected by a route line.
• Bathymetry layers are derived from the GEBCO One Minute Grid.
• Sea surface temperature and chlorophyll are derived from NASA's Ocean Color data.
• Ocean currents and sea surface heights are derived from AVISO's Ssalto/Duacs Gridded Absolute Dynamic Topography & absolute geostrophic velocities data.

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