Breakthrough Surgery Saves Sea Turtle's Limb

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Breakthrough Surgery Saves Sea Turtle's Limb

(IsraelNN.com) Veterinarians at the Nature and Parks Authority's Israeli Sea Turtle Rescue Center saved the broken limb off an exhausted, severely injured brown sea turtle who washed up on the shore near Kibbutz Sdot Yam.

In the first operation of its kind, veterinarian surgeons Rotem Yosef, Tzachi Eisenberg and Ariela Rosenzweig operated last week on the turtle, who had become tangled in fishing line, which severed one of his front fins and cut deeply through the other. The veterinarians found during the course of their examination an additional injury, an old fractured bone that had never mended.

The turle was placed in a wet recovery room -- a protected pond where he is being fed shrimp and cuttlefish and is being petted frequently by his caretakers, according to the report by Haaretz. Sea turtles generally have a lifespan of approximately 70 years.

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Jews are brilliant when it comes to saving the lives of everything and everybody.................. except their own.