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Race is on to save the leatherback turtle
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Belfast Telegraph
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April 19, 2007
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Copyright informationCopyright 2007 Belfast Telegraph. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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What is it about the word turtle? Why must a fatally outdated
style of knitwear, one of America's corniest Sixties pop groups and a
dire children's cartoon series all cluster round this innocuous word?
The clumsiest thing you can do in a boat is turn turtle. The turtle
itself invariably cuts a ridiculous figure, with its hapless looking
flippers, its armour-plated clumsiness, the gently extra-terrestrial
contours of its skull, its famous sex drive... "The turtle lives
'twixt plated decks, Which practically conceal its sex. I think it
clever of the turtle In such a fix to be so fertile," wrote Ogden
Nash.
But now a group of very serious people who have made their life's
work the study of the ...
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