Τι συνέβη τελικά στην χελώνα, + η όλη διαδικασία απ' την ομάδα που αφαίρεσε το καλαμάκι:Many people asked me what happened finally to the turtle with a straw in her nostril.Here is the answer : Our research team in collaboration with Christine Figgener and Dr. Nathan J. Robinson found a male Olive Ridley sea turtle during our in-water research trip in Costa Rica. He had a 10-12 cm PLASTIC STRAW lodged in his nostril.After initially thinking that we are looking at a parasitic worm, and trying to remove it to identify it, we finally identified what we were REALLY looking at. After a short debate about what we should do we removed it with the plier of a swiss army knive which was the only tool available, since we were on the ocean a few hours away from the coast and several hours away from any vet and x-ray machines. Plus, we would have incured a penalty on ourselves by removing the turtle since that is beyond our resarch permits. He did very obviously not enjoy the procedure very much, but we hope that he is now able to breath more freely. 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.