Only time, and thousands of kilometres, will tell. Turbulent week of weather ahead with 3 different storms tracking across US, Early indications show honeymoon period for Biden administration: POLL, President Joe Biden's inaugural parade to the Oval Office, Arizona Republicans censure Cindy McCain, GOP governor, Capitol rioter allegedly tweeted he wanted to 'assassinate' AOC. She moved out of Walvisbay on 16 March and has stayed east of Walvis Ridge. The region Yoshi is in now, between Benguela City in the south and Luanda to her north, has historically been Angola's richest fishing region - and she is taking full advantage of the fertile, fish-laden waters. We look at the number of messages per day because it actually gives us very interesting information. Yoshi has been travelling the Atlantic Ocean very successfully for 309 days! As this point in time, we are still not quite sure whether she will be heading up the east coast or west coast. She is currently in nice 19.6°C water, about 88km south west of Saldanha and about 94km north west of Cape Town. We are very privileged to have worked with these incredible animals and to have contributed to getting them back in the big blue ocean to continue their journeys in the wild. Yoshi’s travels. Yoshi is a turtle. Yoshi appears to be enjoying her time along the Angolan coast and has travelled about 200km north since the previous update. This includes hake, mackerel, pilchard, tuna and red crab fishing. He contacted the Two Oceans Aquarium and asked for help. In typical Yoshi behaviour, she likes doing her own thing. She is about 85km northwest of the Olifantsriver mouth, with water temperature closer to 17°C now. Yoshi first appeared in the game Super Mario World (SNES), which was released in 1990 in Japan and 1991 in the United States. Word lid van Facebook om met Yoshi Turtle en anderen in contact te komen. It runs from the Namibian continental margin to the Tristan da Cunha and Gough Islands. Yoshi has lived a great life since her release, the food-loving loggerhead turtle has been swimming her way from food rich spot to food rich spot on her way to Australia. Yoshi has now officially travelled just over 2 000 kilometres! "She is in a lovely warm 27 degree (Celcius), with a very gentle SE current and a southerly wind of about 13km/h," the aquarium explained. Yoshi, a loggerhead turtle, recently broken all the records by swimming from South Africa to Australia. Right now we just know one thing for sure - she is having a jolly good ocean picnic! There have been two effective transfers of matrilines between the groups, likely through the waters around South Africa. The Two Oceans Aquarium Education Foundation and Little Optimist Trust are spreading hope, healing and optimism by raising funds for sick kids and stricken sea turtles. She is staying nice and close to warmer water, finding herself in 19°C water at the moment. Yoshi the loggerhead turtle has found herself a new home, nearly three years after being released off Cape Point. We have received approximately 30 transmissions. They are only 147km apart. She was released at the age of 26 years old. We are now following the journeys of four released sea turtles - Yoshi the giant female loggerhead remains a favourite, but we've also released Sandy the green turtle, Noci the large male loggerhead, and Pemba the olive ridley turtle released in partnership with uShaka Sea World. 3DS. The shallow waters around these seamounts provide rich feeding grounds for a hungry loggerhead - and we now Yoshi is always looking for a snack. Hopefully, the satellite tag will last long enough to tell us where Yoshi will go over the next couple of months. Time will tell. Trying to relate Mario characters to the real world will only give you a headache. She has covered a total distance of 1 233km over the last 43 days. We believe she was feeding in the shallower and warmer areas along the coast. She has travelled more than 6 600 kilometres, with a daily average now at 26km/day over 258 days. The Walvis Ridge is a seamount chain formed by sub-marine volcanism and is a significant hotspot track. Loggerhead females nest on or near the beaches where they hatched from, so we are hoping that Yoshi will show us where she started out her incredible life before her satellite tag stops transmitting. Two Oceans Aquarium Curator Maryke Musson, whose relationship with this giant loggerhead goes back decades, reflects on the year of turtle travels. His new further origins are shown and described in the season 4 episode "A Tale of Master Yoshi". This is a straight line distance - she has been zig-zagging a lot along the way. We believe she spent a day or two feeding about 2.5km from shore, well north of Doringbaai, before heading back offshore yesterday. She is a true smart swimmer – making very good use of currents. She still tends to swim against currents and winds – so definitely one of the strongest turtles we have ever come across. yoshi is a turtle,he looks like a dinosaur but if he walks on all 4 u see hes a turtle. Yoshi, a loggerhead turtle released from the Two Oceans Aquarium in Cape Town in 2017, has recorded the longest journey of a tracked animal after arriving in Australian waters.. We talked about this in a previous interview for the SNES Classic Edition, but Yoshi is a turtle, isn’t he? We thought she was heading up to Cape Verde initially, but maybe she will make her way back past the Cape Town and head up to Mozambique instead. Yoshi is a Yoshi. She, therefore, did a 380km loop over the last three weeks. She has now travelled about 1 533km up the west coast of Africa. his species) is “T. The captain of the fishing vessel had named her Yoshitaro, after the cook onboard who was rather small in stature himself. It has been 190 days since her release and her average distance per day remains in the 26 – 27km region. She is about 14km offshore in water temperatures of about 21.6°C. and I dont want any "Hes a Dino/Turtle because I say so" because thats not a good reason It's been a while since our last update (sorry! Yoshi is venturing along the Walvis Ridge, and is actually 900km west of Oranjemund – so back off the South African coast! Yoshi the endangered loggerhead turtle has reached Australia after a two-year, 37,000km swim from Africa, prompting scientists to wonder if she was born here. We fell in love with this little turtle with an enormous personality. Walvis Bay has a large industrial fishing port, and a lot of commercial fishing takes place in the vicinity. ... Yoshi is a turtle. Yoshi has now travelled more than 4 600km since her release almost 6 months ago. It supports high biological diversity including corals and many threatened seabirds. She has always been a smart swimmer, making great use of the currents – whereas Yoshi has been and active swimmer – often swimming against the currents (all the training in our I&J Ocean Exhibit clearly made Yoshi fit and strong – and of course her good appetite gives her energy to swim). Yoshi the turtle has gained widespread attention, and support, from ocean-lovers around the world. Help us reach our goal of R150 000 for this cause - together we can achieve more. Yoshi is about 545km north-west of Pemba, the Olive Ridley turtle released off Mabibi by the SAAMBR team in March 2018. Yoshi the loggerhead turtle is undoubtedly one of the most famous and most loved inhabitants of the Two Oceans Aquarium. From The World and PRX, this is The Number in the News. MORE: Coast Guard Rescues Endangered Turtle Caught in Line Off Long Island. This compares well with swimming-speed data of wild loggerhead turtles as well as other rehabilitated and released loggerhead turtles that have been tagged. On 16 of December 2017, a satellite tagged Yoshi, together with 26 rehabilitated loggerhead turtle hatchlings, were released about 30 nautical miles off Cape Point into the warm currents of the open ocean. Yoshis are a race all their own, like other characters/enemies in the Mario universe. She was the very first rescued sea turtle at the aquarium and was closely monitored and cared for. I’ve always thought of Koopa Troopa’s and Bowser both being Koopas, but different types of Koopa’s. Yoshi the loggerhead turtle has found herself a new home, nearly three years after being released off Cape Point. After a year of being lost while picking mushrooms (in the Funimation dub this was changed to him getting in a race with a hare as a reference to the classic table "The Tortoise and the Hare" presumably in reference to Goku's habit of mistakingly calling Turtle a Tortoise), Turtle ended up in Skull Valley one morning where he met Goku and was almost mistaken for a rock. The heartwarming post was shared by an IFS officer Parveen Kaswan with the caption, "Incredible journey of a loggerhead turtle to locate its home. We are very relieved that she has safely navigated her way through various fishing grounds. Loggerhead sea turtles are globally distributed – she could literally still go anywhere, however, it seems as if she is about to head towards the Northern Cape at the moment. Yoshi is enjoying some ‘coastal living’ on the Namibian Coast – and we think that she is most likely having a jelly-feast. She travelled just over 36km over the last 24 hours, and is thus making good progress. Hamato Yoshi was an orphan, who, begged in the streets of Tokyo Japan with his best friend, Yukio Mashimi, in the 1960s. Click here to all see the pics of Yoshi's release. She has travelled a remarkable 8 040km since release 226 days ago, so she is averaging about 35km per day. She has slowed down quite a bit (spending more time eating than swimming) and she is currently moving about 9km per day. A 180 kilogram turtle named Yoshi is doing the rounds on social media which tracked her remarkable journey halfway around the world to locate her home after she was released from 20 years in captivity. Meet Yoshi, turtle who travelled 37,000 kms to locate her home Yoshi went halfway around the world to locate her home after she was released from 20 years in captivity. The incredible turtle was previously a part of Two Oceans Aquarium in South Africa. Yoshi’s northerly journey in green and her turn around and southerly travels in yellow. Since the last update, Yoshi has travelled about 368 kilometres, forming a big half-loop around some seamounts west of Sumbe, Angola. Since our last update, she moved 175km north before turning towards the coast, around 5 March, and slowly making her way back to Walvis Bay, where she is currently swimming around, about 3.42km from shore. She has travelled a total distance of 205km since release, a solid 41km/day! (Supplied: Two Oceans Aquarium)Yoshi gathers support on her journey. Yoshi, the extraordinary loggerhead turtle that was released from the Two Oceans Aquarium in Cape Town, just two years ago, has reached the coast of Australia in a record-breaking swim. She has travelled on average 36km/day, but had an incredibly fast-pace start when she made use of that amazing conveyer belt, the Agulhas Current. That is 40km per day! Is Yoshi a Dinosaur or a Turtle? Yoshi may have been small in size, but her big personality was obvious right from the beginning. His death occurred shortly before Splinter was mutated along with the Turtles. After this,  she will swim past the Democratic Republic of Congo and then the Republic of Congo. We have seen 186 satellite passes since release. Yoshi love eating things! Because Yoshi is such a legend she gave us incredible media exposure and a great platform from which to amplify our ocean conservation messages. The straight-line distance from release site is now approximately 1 400km. "It is known as the best place in the world to see whale sharks, has more than 500 species of fish, more than 300 varieties of corals, with manta rays and sea turtles (maybe Yoshi soon) swimming around safely, and even humpback whales visiting in winter.". In total, she has travelled just over 7 500km with an average, since release, of 24km per day, which remains very impressive. In typical Yoshi behaviour, she likes doing her own thing. These rare events have been sufficient to prevent the two lineages from developing into separate species (Bowen 2003; Bowen and Karl 2007). Yoshi was released a month ago and is well on her way to Namibian waters. Is Yoshi a turtle or a frog? Her average pace since release has been very constant at about 29 km/day. The aquarium also said that Yoshi moves between distinctive ridges, which means more food. Yoshi is still travelling across the Indian Ocean and has covered 27 300 kilometres since her release 595 days ago. What an interesting few weeks since the last update! Over the past two months, she has covered an average of 12km a day, much less than the 42-48 km/day she was cruising at … The Aquarium learned a lot from caring for Yoshi and has since rehabilitated hundreds of turtles and released them to the wild. She was the very first rescued sea turtle at the aquarium and was closely monitored and cared for. Pemba the olive ridley turtle, a former resident of both the Two Oceans Aquarium and uShaka that was released in March, is currently heading north past Namibia and we expect her path to cross Yoshi's in the next two weeks or so. She is currently about 100km west of Cape Columbine in a very mild water temperature ranging between 18.5 to 19.6°C. She is currently about 65km west of Hondeklipbaai, in 18°C water. It seems as if she celebrated the New Year relaxing offshore, as she only travelled about 3.5km between 31 December and 1 January. Yoshi is a loggerhead turtle, which is a species of sea turtle named for its large head and powerful jaw. We expected Yoshi to travel and explore for at least the first year after release, and she is clearly doing just that. She continued to head up the West Coast and by 5January she was about 80km west of Elandsbay. July was her swimming month – this was just after she turned around half way up the Angolan coast, and she covered 1 262 kilometres in just one month! I was just wondering because I personally think hes a Dino, but a friend of mine thinks he's a turtle. The water was a very respectable 18 - 19.5°C. It has sent over 8 000 positions through 1 617 satellite passes! The sea turtle's swim is "definitely a record-setting migration," the aquarium said in a blog post about Yosi's journey that started off the coast of Cape Town when she was released on Dec. 16, 2017. Answered January 14, 2019. We have seen 796 satellite passes with 4 901 transmission messages sent. Hamato Yoshi is a Japanese martial arts master who is somewhat related to Splinter, in some incarnations, he was Splinter's owner until he was killed by the Shredder, while in other incarnations, he was the human form of Splinter before he was either mutated or reincarnated after his death. It further added that Yoshi's exact route is impossible to predict but it is expected that she could stick closer to the coastline and or move towards Queensland, where there is a small nesting population of turtles. What an adventure. Right now she is hanging around above a large seamount – which makes us suspect that she is filling that stomach of hers again. There is a gentle current from the north. She, of course, spent quite a bit of time exploring Cape Town waters and the coastline – with two visits rather close to shore (2km and 6km offshore) - compared to her current 130km offshore position, and that is why her total distance travelled is significantly more than the straight-line distance. Both turtles are in about 17.5°C water – not quite as warm as they generally like, but they are clearly doing well even at this temperature. There are also two main varieties of Koopa; the Koopa Troopas and the Parakoopas. It is much shallower where she currently finds herself, so yet again, she is likely having a bit of a feeding frenzy. Yoshi the endangered loggerhead turtle has reached Australia after a two-year, 37,000km swim from Africa, prompting scientists to wonder if she was born here. The ocean floor is at about 1 050m below surface – so she is in the proper deep and open ocean. That is an average of 29km per day! To date, we have seen 960 satellite passes and 5495 transmission messages. She seems to have adapted well to life back in the big blue, just as we hoped and anticipated. Although quite a bit of commercial fishing occurs in this area, the spatial extent is limited to a relatively small area. Another 500km and she will be swimming past her fourth country! She swims 29km per day on average. Yoshi is currently about 131km west of Lüderitz, Namibia – so she has made some very good headway over the last week. At 04:50 on 17 December we received our first location transmission. Yoshi is currently about 280km west of Sumbe, Angola, and about 300km southwest of Luanda. She is such an ocean trooper. The turtle was released from an aquarium in South Africa in December 2017, 20 years after she was rescued by Japanese … In 2017, she was put back in the ocean after 20 years of being with the aquarium. Over 14 000km of turtle tracking with a collective 479 days – amazing, informative and stressful – that is what turtle tracking is all about! The surface temperature is a very acceptable 19°C with very little current. Total distance travelled since release is 594km. Yoshi, a loggerhead turtle, weighing in at 183kg (403lbs) and measuring nearly 108cm is a legend at Two Oceans Aquarium. We expected her to head east – but she had different plans. ... Yoshi and dry bones are not related Yoshi is a dinosaur dry bones( im pretty sure ) is a old turtle like troopas. She has travelled 8 600 kilometres since her release and has crossed borders 4 times, passing Namibia and Angola after which she turned around in June and is currently about 680 kilometres west of Hondeklipbaai on the South African west coast. She was named after the vessel’s cook, Yoshitaro, a man of small stature just like the little turtle. Hamato Yoshi (濱戸喜, Hamato Yoshi) is a central character from the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles comics and all related media. Pemba is in a slightly chilly 17°C water, so that would have slowed her down a bit as well. Unfortunately, they both fell in love with the same girl, Tang Shen, another orphan taken i… If you look closly, you can see his/her shell. Global (28 January 2020) – Yoshi , a loggerhead turtle, was rescued from a boat in Table Bay Harbour by local authorities in 1996. She is currently approximately 106 km off of the Skeleton Coast. Two months, two countries – only another 16 countries to go before she gets to loggerhead nesting sites at Cape Verde, off Senegal. Green, olive ridley and leatherback turtles have all been seen nesting on Angolan beaches, with loggerhead and hawksbill turtles observed in the waters off Angola - Yoshi is going to have a lot of company for this leg of her journey! She has kept a steady pace of 24 kilometres per day since her release, and she still prefers swimming against the currents and wind – all that training certainly paid off. Yoshi support. There are loggerhead nesting sites along northern Kwazulu-Natal, Mozambique, Oman, Japan, Australia, Cape Verde, Brazil, North America (Florida) as well as in the Mediterranean (Spain, Greece, Turkey). She has moved a bit further offshore, closer to even-warmer water. Her daily average distance travelled since release is just over 31km, which is a very respectable 1.3km/hour mean swimming speed. posted over a year ago. Loggerhead sea turtles have two lineages, which diverged approximately 3 million years ago: one in the Indian and Pacific Ocean basins, and the other in the Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea. Her release marks a tradition that all sea turtles embark on… a long trip to the coast of Cape Town for the opportunity to return to their natal beaches (where they hatched) to lay eggs. From the data received, we can conclude that Yoshi is indeed a superhero and doing very well. Facebook geeft mensen de kans om te delen en maakt de wereld toegankelijker. (Yoshi has been heading towards warmer water, something we would like to be doing too.). She is currently about 130km offshore from the Hardap region of Namibia. Pemba’s journey in red. She will soon find herself in waters of 26°-28°C. In some games, Yoshi gains powers, like flying or shooting fireballs, by eating the shells of enemies known as Koopalings, which look like turtles. She is thus swimming against the current, but she has the wind behind her. Yoshi has made some good progress over the last few days, moving approximately 184km up the West Coast. She has maintained her 29.5km/day swimming distance – how impressive is that? Yoshi is, and will be, moving through areas with commercial fisheries. Warmer waters increase a turtles digestion and metabolic rates, so Yoshi will consume more food as she finds herself in increasingly tropical waters as she migrates further north. A sea turtle from Australia has officially left all other long-distance swimmers in her wake after recording nearly 22,000 miles in two years on her open water journey. Five turtle species have been reported off the Angolan coast, with olive ridley, green and leatherback turtles nesting along this coastline. 342 days and 8308 kilometres. This means that the seamounts were basically created by volcanic activity on the seabed. Yoshi’s tag has provided us with fantastic information. At her current swimming speed, we can expect her to reach the DRC in about 6 weeks. On arrival in the port of Cape Town, they contacted the Two Oceans Aquarium, which opened to the public only two years prior, … Yoshi: The amazing story of a loggerhead turtle Read More » Log In to add custom notes to this or any other game. That means a very impressive 46km per day! She has picked up her swimming pace slightly, with an average of 38km/day currently, and 27km/day for the entire journey since release. There are different types of turtles, so … She is now 731km at a 341° heading (north-northwest) from her release site – that is the straight-line distance. There are various seamounts along the way, which offer fantastic feeding grounds, and knowing Yoshi, we are sure she will head over to these for some feasting (not sure "fasting" is in her vocabulary). Yoshi has done a good roundabout and we believe it will take a few weeks for her to decide where she will finally head off to. 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