Tag: Violet
Meet the Permanent Residents of NMLC!
The National Marine Life Center is home to three resident turtles, aside from our usual sea turtle patients. The three residents include two box turtles, Violet and Daisy, as well a diamondback terrapin named Lindsay. Daisy and Violet came to us in 2014 after being rescued from an illegal animal situation in New Bedford, MA, […]
Is it a turtle, a terrapin, or a tortoise?
Recently, the National Marine Life Center welcomed Lindsay, a diamondback terrapin, to the family. Two Eastern box turtles, Daisy and Violet, are also NMLC residents in the Discovery Center. Next door in our hospital, Jedi, Nicky, and Gunst, our three Kemp’s ridley sea turtles, are in the recovery process and on their way to being […]
Weekly Update
Off to a good start this week! Veterinarian Dr. Rogers Williams came in today for the weekly rounds and was able to check up on Barclay, our harbor seal pup, Cherry, Gage, and North Star, our three Kemp’s ridley sea turtles, and Tide, our loggerhead sea turtle. Blood work was taken on the Kemp’s ridleys, […]
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Happy Wednesday, everyone, and thank you for tuning in to this week's #wishlistwednesday posting! The item we are URGENTLY in need of is...laundry detergent sheets!
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We are interrupting our regularly scheduled posts to share an exciting update! This morning, we released two of our male harbor seal pups, S'mores and
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The Seal Enclosure pool looks much bigger with Cherry Garcia in it now that large and in charge Salted Caramel is no longer taking up