{"id":11317,"date":"2012-06-22T21:59:31","date_gmt":"2012-06-23T02:59:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/?p=11317"},"modified":"2012-06-22T21:59:31","modified_gmt":"2012-06-23T02:59:31","slug":"field-school-nets-34-terrapins-in-fresh-brook-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/?p=11317","title":{"rendered":"Field School Nets 34 Terrapins in Fresh Brook Run"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/9275-plastron-001-male-960.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11319\" title=\"Sierra Exif JPEG\" src=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/7034-profile-001-male-480.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"363\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/7034-profile-001-male-480.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/7034-profile-001-male-480-300x226.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>Handsome Male Terrapin #7034<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Turtles of Cape Cod Field School participants strolled down to Fresh Brook Run at low tide this morning to search for diamondback terrapins.\u00c2\u00a0 With mature females dispersed to nesting sites, we expected to find mostly males and juvenile female\u00c2\u00a0 turtles.\u00c2\u00a0 Our expectations were met and exceeded with the capture of 34 specimens, 23 of which were seen for the first time today.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/7266-profile-001-female-480.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11321\" title=\"Sierra Exif JPEG\" src=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/7266-profile-001-female-480.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"329\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/7266-profile-001-female-480.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/7266-profile-001-female-480-300x205.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>Gorgeous Juvenile Female Terrapin #7266<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Except for two mature ladies, all other captures\u00c2\u00a0were males of all ages\u00c2\u00a0and young prepubescent females in the 4-to-6 year old range.\u00c2\u00a0 The gorgeous young female above is a 5-year-old about three years shy of maturity.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/9275-plastron-001-male-480.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11323\" title=\"Sierra Exif JPEG\" src=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/9275-plastron-001-male-480.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"652\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/9275-plastron-001-male-480.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/9275-plastron-001-male-480-220x300.jpg 220w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>Male Terrapin #9275<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Male Terrapin #9275\u00c2\u00a0 is an interesting turtle that we had previously captured in the Run on 16 May 2009.\u00c2\u00a0 He sports a very small and very dark shell. No matter how much he wriggles his body, Terrapin #9275 just doesn&#8217;t seem to fit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Handsome Male Terrapin #7034 Turtles of Cape Cod Field School participants strolled down to Fresh Brook Run at low tide this morning to search for diamondback terrapins.\u00c2\u00a0 With mature females dispersed to nesting sites, we expected to find mostly males and juvenile female\u00c2\u00a0 turtles.\u00c2\u00a0 Our expectations were met and exceeded with the capture of 34 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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\/11317"}],"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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11317"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11335,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11317\/revisions\/11335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}