Balasore: Extremely rare yellow coloured turtle was rescued by a local at Sujanpur village in Soro block of Balasore district.
One Basudev Mohapatra was working in his fields on Sunday afternoon when he spotted the yellow reptile. He immediately rescued it and informed the district forest officials.
ANI reported Wildlife Warden Bhanoomitra Acharya saying that this turtle is an extremely rare one as the whole of its body is yellow and that he had ‘never seen one like this’.
Odisha: A yellow turtle was rescued by locals from Sujanpur village in Balasore district. It was later handed over to Forest Department officials. B Acharya, Wildlife Warden says, "This is a rare turtle, I have never seen one like this." (19.07.20) pic.twitter.com/MWxjLzabyc
— ANI (@ANI) July 19, 2020
The turtle soon caught everybody’s attention, both online and offline.
A Twitterati IFS officer even speculated that this might be an albino turtle. He also cited an example of such a find in Singh a few years back.
A rare yellow turtle was spotted & rescued in Balasore, Odisha yesterday.
Most probably it was an albino. One such aberration was recorded by locals in Sindh few years back. pic.twitter.com/ZHAN8bVccU
— Susanta Nanda IFS (@susantananda3) July 20, 2020
