‘sup?
This morning.
Julius Caesar, ‘JC’, a loggerhead turtle is being repatriated to Gran Canaria today aboard Aer Lingus flight EI 782.
Via RTE:
JC was discovered on a Donegal beach in January 2019, just 9 months old, suffering from hypothermia and malnourished. Today, 3 years old and weighing 25KG, JC will travel in a specially designed crate in the Aer Lingus cabin to a wildlife sanctuary in Gran Canaria where he will be monitored closely over the coming days before being released into the sea. Loggerhead turtles are an endangered species and thrive in a warm climate.
Turtle, rescued as a shell-shocked baby, jets off to Spanish sun (RTE)
Sasko Lazarov/Photocall Ireland
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“specially designed crate”
Ha ha, it’s a fish box, and by the looks of it, there’s not a lot of leg room either.
Certainly not Business class.
The turtle lives twix plated decks
which practically conceal its sex.
I think it clever of the turtle
in such a fix, to be so fertile.
Ogden Nash
More like William McGonagall
I think McGonagall was a genuinely poor poet; while Nash played at being naive and simplistic:
The cow is of the bovine ilk.
One end is moo, the other milk.
(O.N.)
He’s taking up at least three seats!
Shellfish.
I do not know why, but that made my day.
The turtle moves!
or, The turtle abides?
(Elsewhere now!).
Hmm, musical :-)
I was going for heavenly literature :-D
Very cute. The poor turtle does look pretty squashed though, they should have paid for a business class box for him instead of making him slum it in economy.
I hope they got him a few scratch cards at least.
maybe he clapped his flippers when they landed.
Illegal immigrant forcibly repatriated!
No “medical apartheid “ for turtles, double standards I tell ya