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You better think twice next time you carelessly toss your plastic utensils after lunch — you never know where they could end up.
For this sea turtle, someone’s fork would up in a place it never should have — its nostril. But the Olive Ridley turtle was lucky enough to find itself in the hands of some capable researchers on a beach in Costa Rica.
“As I tested how firmly the object was lodged in its nose; it was clear that it was lodged into her nose very deeply,” Nathan Robinson, who works with the sea turtle conservation organization Leatherback Trust, wrote in a blog post. In the video below — which is not for the squeamish — Robinson and his team remove the fork from the turtle’s nose. Knowing that they were miles from the nearest vet, Robinson had to make a quick decision about the turtle’s predicament. He enlisted the help of two biologists to restrain the turtle and used his pocket knife to carefully extract the fork.
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Removing a plastic fork from the nostril of a sea turtle. Photo Credit: Sean Williamson— with Brett Butler and 2 others.
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