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Photo courtesy Sue Wieber Nourse, Cape Cod Consultants
Wellfleet tot Delilah Beebe gets to hold a diamondback hatchling.
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Big year for baby diamondbacks on Cape Cod
Saturday, August 23rd, 2008Release of Little Dude
Saturday, August 9th, 2008“Litte Dude,” a threatened diamondback terrapin, emerged on August 23rd, 2007 with 16 more live siblings from a nest on the Assonet Bay Shores Beach in Freetown. He weighed 6.6 grams at emergence, measured a smidgeon over an inch long and sported a large, pinkish yolk sac. His siblings were released within a week, but this character was “the runt of the litter,” and would not likely have survived. Overwintering with the National Marine Life Center in Buzzards Bay, “Little Dude” grew to hockey puck size and was released today, August 9th, 2008 back into his natal habitat. Carl Brodeur & the Assonet Bay community, the NMLC team and Sue Wieber Nourse of Cape Cod Consultants released “Little Dude” at 2:30 pm this afternoon (August 9th, 2008).
Sue Wieber Nourse & Carl Brodeur Release “Little Dude”
Turtle Eye View of a Perfect World at Peace with Nature
Thursday, August 7th, 2008
Female Diamondback Terrapin Gazes at Perfect Lieutenant Island Habitat
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Rehabbed Terrapin (Princess Gaia) in the Wild
Tuesday, July 29th, 2008The young female terrapin (Princess Gaia), returned to the wild on July 18th after long-term emergency care at Tufts and rehab at the National Marine Life Center, was recaptured this afternoon in the Run … about a mile from its release point at the Lieutenant Island Bridge. She was spotted hanging out with another young female almost her identical size and age. Note that the left rear leg (closest to the camera in this video) is the one that she lost from the knee down and the leg that Tufts so carefully repaired. Not too shabby for a 3 1/2 legged turtle!
Rehabbed Terrapin Recaptured in the Wild
Rescue of Princess Gaia
Saturday, July 19th, 2008Full story (in brief) of the rescue of a serously injured, pre-pubescent female diamondback terrapin. A host of individuals and organizations took part in this miracle from her discovery stranded on a Cape Cod beach through her surgery and rehabilitation to her release back into the wild.
Rehabbed Three-Legged Terrapin Released Back into Wild