Summary The aquarium started developing artificial limbs for the animal in late 2008.
A 25-year-old female loggerhead turtle test-drives her 27th pair of artificial front flippers around her home aquarium near Kobe in western Japan, where she proves a draw for the crowds.
Yu s rubber limbs are attached to a vest slipped over her head, according to the aquarium s curator, Naoki Kamezaki.
The creature, which weighs 15 stone (96kg) and has a shell 32 inches (82cm) long, was pulled out of a fisherman s net and sent to the Suma Aqualife Park in mid-2008.
One third of the right limb and half of the left limb were gone, in what Kamezaki believes must have been a shark attack.
The aquarium started developing artificial limbs for the animal in late 2008 as it could swim only at about 60 per cent of its normal speed.
