00:00Come on, Zou!
00:03Come on, go!
00:06Come on, Zou!
00:26Here we are in the Aquarium La Rochelle Marine Tortoises Care Center.
00:30This is the place where we will treat the marine tortoises
00:33that will be found, failed or accidentally captured
00:36on the entire coast of the Atlantic.
00:38So here you have Jolie, a small K1 tortoise
00:41that we found this winter, which required a lot of care.
00:44In particular, it presented an inflammation,
00:46an infection at the level of a phalange,
00:48which required its amputation.
00:50It healed very well.
00:52Here we have Jupiter, which is a Kemp tortoise.
00:54It is still quite exceptional,
00:56even if some individuals will be found
00:58on the Atlantic coast.
01:00We mainly have juvenile individuals
01:02that will fail during the winter period.
01:04And here we have a specimen,
01:06an individual of practically adult size,
01:08which normally should have been found
01:10near the coast of the Gulf of Mexico,
01:12where the Kemp tortoise population is located.
01:15So it carries a satellite transmitter
01:17since it is an animal that has reached a sufficient size
01:19to be equipped with a satellite transmitter.
01:21And thanks to it, we will be able to record
01:23its movements in the Gulf of Gascony.
01:25We hope a little further.
01:27Everything will depend on it.
01:29In this last aquarium,
01:31we have the third K1 tortoise
01:33that will return to the sea tomorrow.
01:35Its name is Jason.
01:37It was also found this winter
01:39on a beach in Gironde.
01:41Like all marine tortoises
01:43that we will find during this winter period,
01:45they will be in hypothermia,
01:47very dehydrated and very poor.
01:49When the tortoises find themselves in waters
01:51where the temperature is about 15 degrees,
01:53they will be in a state of lethargy,
01:55they will float to the surface
01:57and they will gradually drift away.
01:59When the temperatures reach 5-6 degrees,
02:01they can die of cold.
02:03So it is really about taking care
02:05of these animals very quickly
02:07to try to make sure
02:09that we can warm them up very quickly
02:11and avoid their death.
02:13So let's go!
02:231,960 grams.
02:25Doing the last weighing
02:27allows us to see the evolution
02:29of its growth
02:31between its arrival
02:33and the moment
02:35when it will be put back in the water.
02:37And there, it is very eager.
02:39So we will check
02:41that its electronic chip
02:43is well implanted.
02:45So in fact,
02:47all the people
02:49who work around the world
02:51on sea turtles
02:53are normally equipped
02:55with a chip reader like this one.
02:57And if it is observed again,
02:59they will know
03:01who is the owner
03:03of the electronic chip.
03:05And so we will have an idea
03:07of its trajectory.
03:21We will put the two little ones
03:23over there.
03:25And then we will slide
03:27the box like this.
03:29Is it good?
03:31It's good.
03:35Come on girls,
03:37let's go!
03:51Water temperature measurement
04:01So here I will measure
04:03the water temperature.
04:05It will give me an additional element
04:07that I will be able to put
04:09in our database on sea turtles.
04:11If they failed, it was precisely
04:13because the temperatures were too low.
04:15Here we have reached a temperature
04:17that is rather correct.
04:19So here we are at 19.5°C.
04:21These are temperatures
04:23that are comparable
04:25to the rehabilitation aquariums
04:27in which the turtles had been
04:29until now.
04:31In fact, we have reduced the temperature
04:33for about a month,
04:35so that it is comparable
04:37to that of the environment
04:39in which they will find themselves
04:41so that they do not have a thermal shock.
04:43And so it's very good.
04:49We're going to put it there.
04:51And then, that's it.
04:53By the way, there it is.
04:57We will start with Jason,
04:59Jolie and we will finish
05:01with Jupiter.
05:03Come on, let's go.
05:07I'm helping her a little bit.
05:09I'm with her until the end.
05:19It's difficult
05:21to really define
05:23all the sensations I can have.
05:25It's the end of a long job,
05:27several months of care,
05:29of rehabilitation
05:31that allow today
05:33to be able to put them back
05:35in the water
05:37and that they can return
05:39to their element
05:41in good condition.
05:43It's the end of a long job,
05:45several months of care,
05:47several months of rehabilitation
05:49that allow today
05:51to be able to put them back
05:53in the water
05:55and that they can return
05:57to their element
05:59in good condition.
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