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- Chucho, from here to there....
- it's full of racoon tracks , did you see?
- Loads of 'em...
- C'mon, let's go.
- this is a nest predated by racoons,
But the thing here is that the turtles had already hatch
what the racoon dod is to take all the eggshells
if you look there are not dead turtles
yes, it tear apart all the...
all the... shells
- How many nests do you clean a day Panter?
- what?
- how many nests do you clean?
- We have to... for... about 60 to 70 to make
at least the 2500 nests cleaned for the season...
with 60 every day, even 50, in two months we have 300 nests
without killing youtrself, 30 nests in the morning 20 during the afternoon
little by little
easily.
- are we going to finish Juan?
Are we? Sure, keep workin'
there are 10 more left.
- How many nests have you count?
- 10, 11 with this one.
-Panther...
- Talk to him, tell him...
- For example
what would you do with this shell?
the entire shell
What would you do?
- Don't know, something for decoration
you fill it up with sand, some glue... for a keyring
natural
-with some varnish...|-you put some varnish, and after you polish it
or first you can polish it and then barnish it, you fill it up with sand
- Panter!
Do you have turtles?
- Yes, there with the Biologist.
-...like if i had dig out the eggshells
we're going to Punta Sur. Jaime, this is Panther
the responsable of this right?
The one who takes care of the turtles
i'll see you around. - Thank you, good afternoon,
- Every afternoon, from 3 pm to 7 pm we do the work, we release turtles.
- Are you going to release today?
At what time? - Today we're going to be at Chiqueros beach
at what time?
- From 3 pm 'till 7
- Ok, i'll see if I can pass by thank you Panther!
-Morning! -Hello! Good morning
Do you have baby turtles? -Yes
-Hi! - hi, do you speak spanish? - no
We've got a problem, we only speak spanish
just teasin' you... - I know
- Welcome here this is your space
don't worry this is completely free
all the information that you wish to know about sea turtles
also you can take any pictures for free too
this is from the departament of ecology
i'm Ricardo, biologist, how are you?
- Can you hold them? - Of course, no worries
i'm gonna show you how
they have just three days old so they have very sensitive areas
the belly button is realy, really sensitive
like we did when we were born
and the eyes also are very sensitive
you can hold them like this you can stroke the shell, the flippers...
- This particular babies are from green turtle
they are able to grow about four feet long, three wide
and about five hundred pounds when they reach thirty years... - Damm
- five hundred pounds, these ones? -Yep eventually...
... it's gonna take a while
- oh! they found one... - yep
- just pass something, don't worry you're fine, you're doing great...
- so, there's an egg over there? how she found it?
- Well we check all the nests making sure that all the babies were able to escape,
we take al the eggshells to get information, you know
how many were and some statistical...
Be careful with the trucks.
- It's alive? - Dead