{"id":1502,"date":"2008-11-07T10:41:08","date_gmt":"2008-11-07T14:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/?p=1502"},"modified":"2008-11-07T10:41:08","modified_gmt":"2008-11-07T14:41:08","slug":"danger-unstoppable-force-meets-immovable-object","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/?p=1502","title":{"rendered":"Danger — Unstoppable Force Meets Immovable Object"},"content":{"rendered":"

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It was inevitable.\u00c2\u00a0 The large\u00c2\u00a0flock of wild turkeys in Eastham, Cape Cod that we spotted in late October (see Rafter of Turkeys Gobble Thanksgiving Overture<\/a>) appears to have eaten\u00c2\u00a0its way to a crossing point: the extremely busy Route 6 highway in Eastham near the National Park Service Center at Salt Pond.\u00c2\u00a0 Habitat fragmentation (the immovable object) confronts hungry turkeys (the unstoppable force).\u00c2\u00a0 The collision of these forces will likely be tragic for the softer bodied\u00c2\u00a0vector, perhaps augmented by a few mangled vehicles, too.<\/p>\n

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Wild\u00c2\u00a0 Turkeys Dodging\u00c2\u00a0Traffic on Route 6, Eastham<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Turtle Journal recommends extreme caution when rounding the Salt Pond curve from Eastham Center and when descending the hill from the north.\u00c2\u00a0 From either direction the turkeys blend into the background and are nearly impossible to see.\u00c2\u00a0 It would be nice if they could be encouraged to fly across the road, but they’re turkeys and dodging high speed vehicles adds so much more excitement to an otherwise mundane and boringly pastoral\u00c2\u00a0life.<\/p>\n

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Perhaps a sign would help … the humans, that is; I don’t think the turkeys can read.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It was inevitable.\u00c2\u00a0 The large\u00c2\u00a0flock of wild turkeys in Eastham, Cape Cod that we spotted in late October (see Rafter of Turkeys Gobble Thanksgiving Overture) appears to have eaten\u00c2\u00a0its way to a crossing point: the extremely busy Route 6 highway in Eastham near the National Park Service Center at Salt Pond.\u00c2\u00a0 Habitat fragmentation (the immovable […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[654],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1502"}],"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=1502"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1502\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1514,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1502\/revisions\/1514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}