Wound care, specifically maintaining the turtle out of its usual water environment, is one of the biggest problems with managing shell wounds in aquatic and semi-aquatic turtles because aquatic ...

And just like you can't take a skeleton out of a person, right, you can't take a turtle out of its shell either. But if you could, you'd probably be surprised by what you'd discover. Maria ...

In a previous column, the author discussed the overall management of turtle shell injuries. This column continues by describing basic techniques for repairing and stabilizing fractured turtle shells.