Tag: Bruce Pierce & Vesuvius


Turtle Trials & Triumphs

Bruce Pierce & Vesuvius

It has been a busy summer for the turtles at the National Marine Life Center! The staff volunteers and interns have been working hard to treat  our red bellied cooter patients, specifically tackling the questions of metabolic bone disease and shell fungus. It  has been a time of both trials and triumphs for the turtles […]

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Brittany’s Week 2

Bruce Pierce & Vesuvius

We released Teanna this week. We drove to the Mass Audubon Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary to release her.  We got a tour of the facility and got to go behind the scenes and see Teanna weighed, measured, etc. She was also notched so if she was ever caught we would be able to identify her. […]

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