Sunday 17 February 2013

Disabled sea turtle Yu gets prosthetic flippers

A disabled sea turtle has been fitted with a pair of artificial flippers to help her swim.

It's thought Yu, a 25-year-old female loggerhead turtle, lost her limbs in a shark attack.

She was pulled out of a fisherman's net nearly five years ago and sent to the Suma Aqualife Park in Kobe, Japan.

Since then, staff there have been making a pair of prosthetic flippers for her.

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