{"id":11847,"date":"2012-09-12T21:06:37","date_gmt":"2012-09-13T02:06:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/?p=11847"},"modified":"2012-09-12T21:06:37","modified_gmt":"2012-09-13T02:06:37","slug":"miracle-baby-eastern-box-turtle-hatchling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/?p=11847","title":{"rendered":"Miracle Baby:  Eastern Box Turtle Hatchling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/ebt-hatchling-994-960.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11853\" title=\"ebt hatchling 994 480\" src=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/ebt-hatchling-994-480.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"334\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/ebt-hatchling-994-480.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/ebt-hatchling-994-480-300x208.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00c2\u00a0<em><strong>Eastern Box Turtle Hatchling with Egg Tooth<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Wow!\u00c2\u00a0 What a surprise greeted the Turtle Journal Team today when this beautiful Eastern Box Turtle hatchling emerged from a nest\u00c2\u00a0of 68 snapper eggs.\u00c2\u00a0 Say what?\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Nick-Grace-EBT-Egg-003-480.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11870\" title=\"Nick Grace EBT Egg 003 480\" src=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Nick-Grace-EBT-Egg-003-480.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"678\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Nick-Grace-EBT-Egg-003-480.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Nick-Grace-EBT-Egg-003-480-212x300.jpg 212w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>Lonely Eastern Box Turtle Egg<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">On June 12th, a resident in East Marion found a single egg in an open nest in his driveway.\u00c2\u00a0 The\u00c2\u00a0homeowner\u00c2\u00a0raced to\u00c2\u00a0the Sippican Lands Trust office in Marion to report\u00c2\u00a0his find. The <a href=\"http:\/\/sippicanlandstrust.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sippican Lands Trust<\/a> knew to call Turtle Journal, but couldn&#8217;t find our number (<strong>508-274-5108<\/strong>).\u00c2\u00a0 So, they called the Massachusetts Association of Conservation Districts in Westford to get Don Lewis&#8217; phone number. Don called the SLT, then got in touch with the resident.\u00c2\u00a0 Don\u00c2\u00a0visited the site to assess the situation and to rescue the lonely\u00c2\u00a0egg.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/ebt-hatchling-500-960.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11851\" title=\"ebt hatchling 500 480\" src=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/ebt-hatchling-500-480.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"460\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/ebt-hatchling-500-480.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/ebt-hatchling-500-480-300x287.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>&#8220;One of These Things Just Doesn&#8217;t Belong&#8221;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Experience has taught us that single eggs do not incubate well on their own.\u00c2\u00a0 So, we placed this Eastern box turtle egg in the middle of a snapper nest with 68 eggs.\u00c2\u00a0 Hatchlings from that nest began spilling out of emergence holes the last two days.\u00c2\u00a0 Shortly after noon today, Sue Wieber Nourse spotted a hatchling tunneling for the surface distinctly different from the others.\u00c2\u00a0 Don couldn&#8217;t help singing, &#8220;<em>One of these things is not like the others, One of these things just doesn&#8217;t belong, Can you tell which thing is not like the others, By the time I finish my song?<\/em>&#8220;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/ebt-hatchling-010-480.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11849\" title=\"Sierra Exif JPEG\" src=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/ebt-hatchling-010-480.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"390\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/ebt-hatchling-010-480.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/ebt-hatchling-010-480-300x243.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>COMPARISON:\u00c2\u00a0Box Turtle Hatchling and Mature Female<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A lot of people got involved to save this little baby when it was just an egg.\u00c2\u00a0 In a couple of weeks, this\u00c2\u00a0tiny critter will be returned to its natal site for release.\u00c2\u00a0 And like any cold-blooded reptile in good standing, this hatchling is completely oblivious of all those human efforts to save its life, well before it was even alive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00c2\u00a0Eastern Box Turtle Hatchling with Egg Tooth Wow!\u00c2\u00a0 What a surprise greeted the Turtle Journal Team today when this beautiful Eastern Box Turtle hatchling emerged from a nest\u00c2\u00a0of 68 snapper eggs.\u00c2\u00a0 Say what?\u00c2\u00a0 Lonely Eastern Box Turtle Egg On June 12th, a resident in East Marion found a single egg in an open nest in [&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\/11847"}],"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=11847"}],"version-history":[{"count":32,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11847\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11886,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11847\/revisions\/11886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}