Talking Turtles: Blog

What to do with dead turtles?

What to do with dead turtles?

By Mathew H. Godfrey | May 8, 2012 | Matthew H. Godfrey, North Carolina

As in most cases, it started with a phone call. Somebody saw a sea turtle, washed up on some rocks along a town creek near the ocean. This time, the location is close: just down the street from my home, so it takes only five minutes to get to the turtle spot....
The Green Lagoon

The Green Lagoon

By Kartik Shanker | March 30, 2012 | Kartik Shanker, Lakshadweep

The male green turtle with a small hole in his carapace swam ahead of us in the Kavaratti lagoon without the least concern about our presence. Bharti, my Ph.D. student, and I followed him for nearly half an hour. Male green turtles are known to make amorous advances...
LA diary: Scrambled eggs, unscrambled minds

LA diary: Scrambled eggs, unscrambled minds

By Kartik Shanker | | Andamans, Kartik Shanker

Having just eaten a breakfast of eggs, rice and tomato ketchup, a combination that I had not tried before, I lay in a hammock not far from a quiet and sun-dappled stream. In the shade of a forest in the arms of a bay. On the west coast of an island in the middle of...