22,000: Yoshi the turtle breaks tracking record
A young girl looks at Yoshi, a loggerhead sea turtle, at Two Oceans Aquarium in Cape Town, South Africa.
From The World and PRX, this is The Number in the News. Today’s number: 22,000.
A loggerhead sea turtle named Yoshi has been on an incredible journey. In December 2017, Two Oceans Aquarium in Cape Town, South Africa, released Yoshi into the open water after 20 years in captivity. Since then she has swum more than 22,000 miles from Cape Town to the western shores of Australia. The aquarium writes that Yoshi has traveled the longest-ever recorded journey of a tracked animal.
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