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Texas State Aquarium

Corpus Christi, Texas

 

Photographs taken at the Texas State Aquarium
By Elisa Magee, CIT NISD

Turtles at this facility are here for rehabilitation and possible release back to the wild. In some cases, the animal's injuries prevent it from ever being released back into the wild. Several turtles are located in a large tank with glass walls. Information posted by the exhibit gives a biography on each turtle. Some of this information is included below.

Egg Exhibit at the Texas State Aquarium

This is a model of turtles hatching.

 

Turtles are hatching in nest under the sand and beginning climbing up to the surface and then to the ocean.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Turtle Bend at the Texas State Aquarium
Several sea turtles are on exhibit. Here is information from their biographies posted at the Aquarium
Green Turtle "Pickles" Pickles came in March 1990 and weighs 85 pounds. Green Turtles can grow as large as 300 pounds and live 100 years. Pickles likes turtle gel which is a specially made diet food for sea turtles at the aquarium.
Hawksbill "Hemingway" Hemingway came from Galveston, Texas. He was found tangled in plastic. He lost his front flipper as a result of this injury.
Hawksbill
"Einstein"		 Einstein has no physical damage but stranded himself three times (cause for this behavior is unknown). The National Marine Fisheries Service has declared him as non-releasable.
Kemp's Ridley "Daisy" Daisy was raised as a hatchling at Dallas Aquarium. She was the first animal to arrive at Turtle Bend and loves blue crab added to diet of squid and capelin. Release date has not been determined. Until then, she will remain at Turtle Bend.
Kemp's Ridley "Pepita" Pepita was hatched in captivity in 1989 at Texas A&M University and came in 1999 to the Aquarium. Her injury is scoliosis (curve in spine).
Kemp's Ridley "Snapper"

Snapper was found in 1993 at Southampton, NY. A boat Injury resulted in bubble under carapace which made the rear end of shell bend. Snapper can't move rear flippers. He was brought to Aquarium in 1995 and determined not releasable.
In 2000, Snapper learned to swim below surface and shell shows signs of straightening.
Kemp's Ridley "Waldo" Waldo lost his right back flipper.
See more of Waldo by clicking on these links below:
Photos of Waldo MPEG-Waldo's Flipper MPEG-Waldo Swimming

Citation:

These images are available for educational purposes and are for use in constructing presentations for the Kemp's Ridley Sea Turtle WebQuest.
Please credit photographs and MPEG video:
Photographs taken at the Texas State Aquarium.
Courtesy of Elisa Magee@ Northside ISD, San Antonio, Texas and provide a link back to the Kemp's Ridley Sea Turtle WebQuest Home Page at http://www.nisd.net/blattman/links/4/sea_turtle/1_kemps_ridley_webquest.htm

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