Chinese tourists’ lucky coins kill aquarium turtle after it eats one and chokes
Turtles can live much longer than humans, but this victim was only 20 years old
Tourists’ lucky coins are not just choking aircraft engines as reported this week in China Digest – now they have claimed the life of a 20-year-old turtle at an aquarium in China’s Hunan province, according to news website.
The turtle choked on coins at the aquarium in a park in the provincial capital Changsha. It was having trouble breathing and was unwilling to eat a week before it died, Thepaper.cn reported on Thursday.
The report said a veterinarian performed an autopsy on the animal and found a coin stuck in its throat the remains of plastic bags in its stomach.
Zhao Chenggang, the aquarium’s manager, said turtles normally live for up to 150 years but this one died at 20.
