Pittsburgh zoo helping treat Massachusetts turtles

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Officials at Pittsburgh Zoo & PPG Aquarium are working to rescue 14 sea turtles that had been stranded off the coast of Massachusetts.


Zoo officials say the Kemp's ridley sea turtles were suffering from hypothermia.


The turtles are cold-blooded and follow the warmer Gulf Stream waters up to Cape Cod each year and then migrate south once the waters off Massachusetts cool.


But a cold front in September helped to disorient some turtles, which were then stranded in waters that are too cold for them to survive.


The turtles in Pittsburgh Monday were brought in from the New England Aquarium, which has already rescued some 900 sea turtles.


The Pittsburgh turtles will likely remain at the zoo for six to nine months before they're returned to the wild.






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