Authorities found evidence including: two live turtles weighing 17kg; 15 Asian
soft-shelled turtles weighing 26.8kg; four unspecified turtles weighing 20kg; one live python weighing 10.5kg; 16kg of wild boar meat; 6.5kg of red muntjac meat, four dead civets weighing 8.5kg; and 14 pairs of bears' nails.
Chinese
soft-shelled turtles (Pelodiscus sinensis) have been consumed as food and as a medicinal tonic in several countries.
However, only
soft-shelled turtles were being picked up for collection as they were in high demand in the Chinese market, he added.
The turtle bonanza included shells from one spur-thighed tortoise (Testudo graeca) and three Middle Eastern terrapins (Mauremys caspica), plus bones from 17 Euphrates
soft-shelled turtles (Rafetus euphraticus).
Today's harvest is a shadow of what we regularly dug from 1990 to 1995, the period of the last great sets of
soft-shelled clams in Barnstable.
barnyard egg of this
soft-shelled obsession against a tree.
We report an outbreak of human trichinosis in Taiwan in which eating raw
soft-shelled turtles (Pelodiscus sinensis) was the suspected mode of infection.
So long live Yangtze
soft-shelled turtles, Tasmanian devils, cheetahs and koalas too.
The fate of the Yangtze giant
soft-shelled turtle, which can weigh up to 220 pounds, depends on whether two elderly turtles in Chinese zoos are able to reproduce.
CANCER June 21-July 22 Feeling
soft-shelled, crabs?
To tell if a lobster is hard or
soft-shelled, gently press the area behind the claws.
"The
soft-shelled boots worn by snowboarders allow a more free range of motion of the ankles than the hard-shelled boots worn by alpine skiers.