All section Close
Image Credit: ANI/Twitter
Rare Yellow Turtle Spotted In Odisha's Balasore District
Writer: Sumanti Sen
Sumanti Sen is an English Literature graduate who believes "there's just one kind of folks. Folks.".
Odisha, 20 July 2020 9:40 AM GMT
Editor : Shubhendu Deshmukh |
Shubhendu, the quint essential news junky, the man who loves science and politics in equal measure and offers the complete contrast to it by being a fan of urdu poetry as well.
Creatives : Abhishek M
" An engineer by profession, Abhishek is the creative producer of the team, graphic designing is his passion and travelling his get away. In more ways than one, he makes the content visually appealing."
"The whole shell and the body of the rescued turtle is yellow. This is a rare turtle, I have never seen one like this," said Bhanoomitra Acharya, Wildlife Warden.
Residents of a village in Odisha's Balasore district, 196 km from capital Bhubaneswar, were in for a surprise when they spotted a turtle completely yellow in colour. According to a senior wildlife officer, it is a rare spotting.
"The whole shell and the body of the rescued turtle is yellow. This is a rare turtle, I have never seen one like this," Bhanoomitra Acharya, Wildlife Warden, was quoted as saying by news agency ANI.
Locals from Sujanpur village in Balasore district rescued the yellow turtle on Sunday, July 19, NDTV reported.
Sharing a video of the rare turtle swimming in water inside what appears to be a vessel, IFS (Indian Forest Services) officer Susanta Nanda wrote on Twitter: "Most probably it was an albino. One such aberration was recorded by locals in Sindh few years back."
A rare yellow turtle was spotted & rescued in Balasore, Odisha yesterday.
— Susanta Nanda IFS (@susantananda3) July 20, 2020
Most probably it was an albino. One such aberration was recorded by locals in Sindh few years back. pic.twitter.com/ZHAN8bVccU
"Mark the pink eyes, one indicative feature of albinism," he wrote in another post.
Close snap of the same. Mark the pink eyes, one indicative feature of albinism. pic.twitter.com/MfXrXVYbfH
— Susanta Nanda IFS (@susantananda3) July 20, 2020
Fishermen last month had caught a rare species of Trionychidae turtle at Deuli Dam in Odisha's Mayurbhanj district. Forest department later released it into a dam. These are softshell turtles found in Africa, Asia, and North America.
Also Read: Maharashtra: State Forest Department Rescues 42 Sea Turtles From Konkan Coast
Must Reads
We are an independent and public-spirited digital media platform for Indian millennials. We report news and issues that matter as well as give you the opportunity to take action.
