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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/19363bf0-f256-4b93-b2a6-802074360e74/B7A3A3CC-22DF-473E-9425-24FB41CBCFB7/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080818/od_uk_nm/oukoe_uk_italy_turtles" href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080818/od_uk_nm/oukoe_uk_italy_turtles" style="font-size: 11px;">news.yahoo.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080818/od_uk_nm/oukoe_uk_italy_turtles"><H1> <DIV class="source"> <A href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/reuters/brand/SIG=pd7i95;_ylt=AklA_2WlZwz5eSB1iWYz9c2ek3QF/*http://www.reuters.com"><IMG height="27" border="0" width="94" alt="Reuters" src="http://l.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/us/nws/p/reuters_logo_94.png" /></A> </DIV> Confused sea turtles march into restaurant </H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080818/od_uk_nm/oukoe_uk_italy_turtles"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/news.yahoo.com/img/133EC51D-52A2-48DD-909C-BE3DFD1143F6" alt="Green sea turtles head to the sea, just after hatching at Guanahacabibes National Park's Antonio beach, in the western Cuban province of Pinar del Rio in January. Researchers say they have figured out why sea turtles that normally feed and breed in shallow water or on land will, very rarely, go deep sea diving: the reptiles are on reconnaissance.(AFP/File)" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080818/od_uk_nm/oukoe_uk_italy_turtles"><P> ROME (Reuters) - About 60 newly hatched sea turtles lost their way during their ritual passage to the sea and marched into an Italian restaurant instead, a conservation worker said on Monday. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080818/od_uk_nm/oukoe_uk_italy_turtles"><P> The baby turtles -- which ended up under the tables of startled diners at the beachside restaurant -- were probably thrown off track and lured by the eatery's bright lights, said Antonio Colucci, who was called to help rescue the group.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080818/od_uk_nm/oukoe_uk_italy_turtles"><P> "They saw the artificial lights and took the wrong route," said Colucci, who works on a turtle monitoring project for the conservation group WWF (<SPAN id="lw_1219082105_0" class="yshortcuts">World Wide Fund for Nature</SPAN>).</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080818/od_uk_nm/oukoe_uk_italy_turtles"><P> "The diners were at first quite curious and then someone alerted the coastal authorities."</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080818/od_uk_nm/oukoe_uk_italy_turtles"><P> The stranded turtles, which had hatched on a beach in the <SPAN id="lw_1219082105_1" class="yshortcuts">southern Italian region</SPAN> of Calabria, were released into the sea.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080818/od_uk_nm/oukoe_uk_italy_turtles"><P> Female <SPAN id="lw_1219082105_2" class="yshortcuts">sea turtles nest</SPAN> on beaches and their offspring instinctively head to the sea after hatching from their eggs.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;"> </td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/B7A3A3CC-22DF-473E-9425-24FB41CBCFB7/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>
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