Loggerhead sea turtle (Caretta caretta) undergoing surgery to implant a "living tag."
A loggerhead sea turtle (Caretta caretta) undergoes an operation to implant a "living tag." This procedure places a section of carapace tissue on the plastron and vice versa, creating a unique color identifier, which allows researchers to identify when and where this turtle was tagged.
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Keywords: caguama, carapace, caretta, conservation, hatchling, living, loggerhead, marine, mark, marking, plastron, post, recapture, reptile, research, sea, surgery, tag, tagging, tags, turtle
