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ON three little islands off the south-west coast of Borneo, the Sarawak Turtle Board annually collects for sale or replants for hatching more than a million eggs of the green or edible turtle (Chelonia mydas Linn.)1. In 1951 we commenced marking experiments on this population. By 1953 we had settled on polished, monometal, hard-steel, ‘cow-ear’ type tags—one side with an inset code-number; “SARAWAK MUSEUM: REWARD” on the other. These are punched and locked through the inner rear trailing edge of one forward flipper on an adequate sample of laying turtles.
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HARRISSON, T. Tagging Green Turtles, 1951–56. Nature 178, 1479 (1956). https://doi.org/10.1038/1781479a0
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