CMA Rescued Resident – Stubby

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Stubby was brought to Clearwater Marine Aquarium on May 9, 2001, because she had sustained severe injuries from a monofilament fishing line entanglement. Both of her front flippers were missing and pieces of her rear flippers were missing. We believe this was due to other opportunistic animals foraging on them. Stubby’s wounds healed, but she continued to float and is unable to dive because she lacks front flippers. Even though she has had to greatly adjust how she gets around, Stubby is one of the friendliest turtles at the aquarium. She quickly swims over to “greet” anyone who visits her pool, she loves eating greens, blowing bubbles and receiving a lot of tactile from our interns and volunteers during her feeding sessions.