泰國海龜再次游泳——用假蹼

泰國海龜再次游泳——用假蹼

Thai turtle Goody lost her left flipper years ago after she was entangled in a fishing net, leaving her immobile and stressed out in captivity.

多年前，泰國龜古蒂在被漁網(wǎng)纏住后，失去了左鰭。在囚禁期間，古蒂動彈不得，倍感壓力。

But now Goody, an endangered olive ridley sea turtle, can swim with ease again, after receiving Thailand’s first prosthetic flipper last week.

上周，這只名叫“古蒂”的瀕臨滅絕的欖蠵龜接受了泰國首例人工鰭狀肢移植手術(shù)，現(xiàn)在它又可以自如地游泳了。

“She’s swimming much better and she’s learning to use the two flippers to turn. You can see the difference,” said Nantarika Chansue, a veterinarian who took part in the development of Goody’s prosthetic flipper.

“她游泳游得好多了，她正在學習用兩個鰭來轉(zhuǎn)身。你可以看到它們之間的區(qū)別。”參與了Goody假肢腳蹼研發(fā)的獸醫(yī)Nantarika Chansue說。

Over the past year, Thai environment authorities and researchers at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok have been working to develop prostheses for injured sea turtles, following similar projects in Japan and the United States.

在過去的一年里，泰國環(huán)境當局和曼谷朱拉隆功大學的研究人員一直致力于為受傷的海龜研制假肢，此前在日本和美國也有類似的項目。