African Journal of Dairy Farming and Milk Production

African Journal of Dairy Farming and Milk Production ISSN 2375-1258 Vol. 8 (3), pp. 001-003, March, 2020. © International Scholars Journals

Full Length Research Paper

Blood profiles from wild populations of green sea turtles in Taiwan

Chia-ling Fong, Ho-Chang Chen, I-Jiunn Cheng*

Institute of Marine Biology, National Taiwan Ocean University, Keelung, Taiwan, 202-24, Republic of China.

Accepted 08 December, 2019

Abstract

Blood samples were obtained from twenty seven clinically healthy bycatched green turtles (Chelonia mydas). The packed cell volume (PCV) and 14 plasma biochemistry parameters were determined from these samples. The PCV values were lower in sub-adult green turtles than in the adults while the plasma AST concentration was higher in the sub -adults than in the adults. These variations may be due to the age of the turtle and the period of the year when the samples were taken. The results of this study provide the first plasma biochemistry baseline profiles for free-ranging green sea turtles in Taiwan.

Key words: Green sea turtle, plasma biochemistry baseline, Taiwan.