{"id":10028,"date":"2012-03-24T11:18:21","date_gmt":"2012-03-24T16:18:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/?p=10028"},"modified":"2012-03-24T12:25:07","modified_gmt":"2012-03-24T17:25:07","slug":"endangered-red-bellied-cooters-emerge-in-wareham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/?p=10028","title":{"rendered":"Endangered Red-Bellied Cooters Emerge in Wareham"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/cooters-in-wareham-960.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10030\" title=\"cooters in wareham 480\" src=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/cooters-in-wareham-480.jpg\" alt=\"cooters in wareham 480\" width=\"480\" height=\"314\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/cooters-in-wareham-480.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/cooters-in-wareham-480-300x196.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em>Northern Red Bellied-Cooters Basking in Wareham, MA<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Turtle Journal&#8217;s colleague Cat Honkonen found six endangered red bellied-cooters basking on rocks\u00c2\u00a0in a Wareham pond on Friday, March 23rd.\u00c2\u00a0 She snapped this photograph of four cooters enjoying the warm sunshine after emerging from winter slumber.\u00c2\u00a0 Northern Red Bellied-Cooters (<em>Pseudemys rubriventris) <\/em>are federally protected as threatened and are listed in Massachusetts as an endangered species by the Massachusetts Natural Heritage &amp; Endangered Species Program.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/cooters-in-wareham-closeup.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10032\" title=\"cooters in wareham closeup\" src=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/cooters-in-wareham-closeup.jpg\" alt=\"cooters in wareham closeup\" width=\"480\" height=\"568\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/cooters-in-wareham-closeup.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/cooters-in-wareham-closeup-253x300.jpg 253w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>Closeup of Basking Northern Red-Bellied Cooters<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Cat is experiencing the &#8220;miracle&#8221; of elusive turtles.\u00c2\u00a0 She notes, &#8220;Somehow they managed to multiply over the winter.\u00c2\u00a0 I saw at least six (6) today.\u00c2\u00a0 How could they do that?\u00c2\u00a0 I know I only saw two (2) last year.&#8221;\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Thanks to citizen scientists like Cat who monitor endangered species in Massachusetts, the knowledge they provide about locations, population size and activies ensures that we can protect these critters for future generations of Bay Staters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Northern Red Bellied-Cooters Basking in Wareham, MA Turtle Journal&#8217;s colleague Cat Honkonen found six endangered red bellied-cooters basking on rocks\u00c2\u00a0in a Wareham pond on Friday, March 23rd.\u00c2\u00a0 She snapped this photograph of four cooters enjoying the warm sunshine after emerging from winter slumber.\u00c2\u00a0 Northern Red Bellied-Cooters (Pseudemys rubriventris) are federally protected as threatened and are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[23],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10028"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10028"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10028\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10044,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10028\/revisions\/10044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}