A loggerhead turtle thought to have had her front limbs partly severed in a shark attack has been given a new pair of artificial flippers. Yu, aged about 25, has been through 26 pairs of rubber limbs already - but all have proved too painful to keep. The new ones are attached to a vest slipped over her head, said Naoki Kamezaki, curator at an aquarium near Kobe in western Japan, where Yu lives.
"We have worked hard to design the vest in a way that prevents the turtle from taking it off unwittingly," he said. Yu, who weighs 96kg (212lbs) and has a shell 82cm (32ins) long, was pulled out of a fisherman's net and sent to the Suma Aqualife Park in mid-2008.
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