Factoid/2004/11/23
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Swimming Back and Forth Across the Oceans
- "Bluefin tuna tagged in California turned up off Japan and then swim back to California. It's been known that tuna swim across the Atlantic but the Pacific is three times broader. And green turtles tagged near the equator go in huge loops around the Pacific, maybe three times in a lifetime of almost perpetual movement," said Ron O'Dor, senior scientist of the Census of Marine Life, a 10-year project running until 2010 by hundreds of scientists in 70 nations. Excerpt from the web page at http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/28240/story.htm
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