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Old 08-01-2002, 02:22 PM   #17
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The green turtle, or honu as we call it in Hawaii, is named "green" because it has green fat. They are actually quite brown on the outside. Now I've never cut one open and would never even consider it but this is what I've been told by the researchers here that work with turtles.
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