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Mayo provides miracle for endangered turtles in Israel
I wonder how they happened to think of using this? Just glad it's working...
Mayo provides miracle for endangered turtles in Israel
It’s helping to break down tar in reptiles’ system
Ariel Schalit
ASSOCIATED PRESS
MICHMORET, Israel – When it comes to saving sea turtles, Israeli rescuers have discovered that mayonnaise is a miracle.
Employees at Israel’s National Sea Turtle Rescue Center are treating endangered green sea turtles affected by a devastating oil spill that has coated Israel’s coast with thick black tar.
The spill, which Israel’s Nature and Parks Authority has called one of the country’s worst ecological disasters on record, has coated most of Israel’s 120 miles of Mediterranean coastline with sticky tar. It has caused extensive damage to wildlife, including sea turtles.
Guy Ivgy, a medical assistant at the Sea Turtle Rescue Center in Michmoret, north of Tel Aviv, said 11 turtles are being treated. The center is run by Israel’s Nature and Parks Authority.
“They came to us full of tar. All their trachea from inside and outside was full of tar,” he said.
Workers have been removing the toxic substance from the reptiles’ airways and found a creative way to flush it out of their digestive tracks.
“We continue to feed them substances like mayonnaise, which practically clean the system and break down the tar,” Ivgy said. The recovery process is expected to take a week or two, after which the turtles are expected to be released back into the wild.
Thousands of volunteers and clean-up crews have mobilized to remove tar from Israel’s beaches, a task that is expected to take months.
Israel’s Environmental Protection Ministry says it is investigating the cause of the oil spill.
The incident is believed to have taken place in early February, and Israel said it received no prior warning before an estimated 1,000 tons of tar started washing up on shore. The tar has also washed north to Lebanon.
On Monday, an Israeli court barred publication of all details of the investigation, including the name of the suspected ship believed to have spilled the oil, its route and ports of call. An Israeli journalists’ association petitioned the court on Tuesday to have the order lifted.
A 6-month-old green sea turtle is cleaned from tar after an oil spill in the Mediterranean Sea at Israel’s Sea Turtle Rescue Center, in Michmoret, Israel, on Tuesday. ARIEL SCHALIT/AP
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Perhaps the kind of oil in mayo is well suited to break down the tar while also being safe to ingest? I don't know much about it, but I do know that oils can have interesting reactions with other oils, silicones, and plastics.
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