A baby loggerhead turtle was found on the Overseas Highway a day after Hurricane Irma swept through the Florida Keys.
A baby loggerhead turtle was found on the Overseas Highway a day after Hurricane Irma swept through the Florida Keys. Andy Newman/Florida Keys News Bureau
A baby loggerhead turtle was found on the Overseas Highway a day after Hurricane Irma swept through the Florida Keys. Andy Newman/Florida Keys News Bureau

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A baby turtle was found on the highway a day after Irma. It was easy to name

Keynoter

October 11, 2017 1:28 PM

A baby loggerhead turtle was found on the Overseas Highway a day after Hurricane Irma swept through the Florida Keys.

Its name?

Irma, of course.

On Wednesday, Bette Zirkelbach, manager of the Florida Keys-based Turtle Hospital in Marathon, cleaned with a toothbrush.

Zirkelbach hopes that Irma, who was found Sept. 11 and taken to the hospital, can be released with other hatchlings in the next few weeks.

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