WHEN the signal from a huge sea turtle that was being tracked by satellite
disappeared, researchers thought its transmitter had fallen off. In fact the
turtle had found its way onto the menu at a Mexican village barbecue. Scientists
are now hoping to retrieve the $2500 transmitter the animal carried.
The San Diego-based conservation group Wildcoast had tracked the movement of
the 110-kilograms East Pacific green turtle since December. It swam from its
nesting site in southern Mexico to feeding grounds in Baja California, a
1500-kilometre peninsula on Mexico’s Pacific coast. But signals from the
turtle’s transmitter stopped in March.…
