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If you've littered into the sea before, this video will make you regret your actions
Posted on 10 August, the 8-minute long video shows a group of researchers in Costa Rice, extracting a 12cm long straw from the nostril of a 35kg Olive Ridley sea turtle
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Christine Figgener, a sea turtle expert and her colleagues were collecting data for a study when they noticed something amiss – an object was stuck inside the sea turtle's left nostril
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Originally, the researchers thought the object was a parasitic worm. Little did they know it was actually a 12cm long straw. Using a Swiss knife plier, the straw was slowly removed.
Although the procedure was bloody and painful, the sea turtle reportedly felt much better after the removal
'The team felt it was better to remove the straw immediately, since they were hours away from a veterinarian—and there was no guarantee the vet would know how to deal with a sea turtle. We disinfected the air passageway with iodine and kept the turtle for observation before releasing him back into the wild. The bleeding stopped pretty much immediately after the removal of the straw,' the Youtube description says
