Updates On 27th Feb 2013
ACRES 
Feb 27, 2013 
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Captain Hook is the biggest pig-nosed turtle housed at the AWRC. He came to live here after members of NParks alerted us to a turtle with fishing line hanging out of his mouth in a public pond at East Coast Park.
The ACRES Wildlife Rescue Team went to take a look and discovered a pig-nosed turtle – a non-native species. We brought him back to the Wildlife Hospital at the AWRC to take a proper look at him, and upon endoscopic examination we found a fishing hook lodged deeply in his throat, attached to the fishing line. Our veterinary team decided that removing the hook through surgery would be extremely risky: operating on this species of turtle carries many risks. And we realised he could still eat and didn’t appear to be in any distress. In fact, he has an extremely healthy appetite! So the hook was left in, and we couldn’t think of a better name for him than Captain Hook!
Poor Captain Hook had many other health problems, from fungal infections to pressure sores, and he required a lot of specialist care, including being taken out of the water for 20 minutes every day and placed on a dry dock for treatment.
Captain Hook is an extremely active turtle, highly curious about anything added to his enclosure. Unfortunately he can be qiute destructive as well! We have to make sure everything is his pool is Captain Hook- proof, for example his filtration pump has a special protective covering to prevent him from wrecking it!
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