{"id":15051,"date":"2014-05-12T20:53:36","date_gmt":"2014-05-13T01:53:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/?p=15051"},"modified":"2014-05-12T20:53:36","modified_gmt":"2014-05-13T01:53:36","slug":"winning-hand-three-of-a-different-kind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/?p=15051","title":{"rendered":"Winning Hand:  Three of a (Different) Kind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/post-three-amigos-face-960.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15054\" title=\"post three amigos face 480\" src=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/post-three-amigos-face-480.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"253\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/post-three-amigos-face-480.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/post-three-amigos-face-480-300x158.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>Box Turtle, Diamondback Terrapin and Painted Hatchlings<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">It&#8217;s beginning to feel a lot like September in May here on the Massachusetts SouthCoast as the Turtle Journal team discovers hatchling after hatchling, emerging from their initial winter&#8217;s hibernacula. \u00c2\u00a0The three amigas pictured above include, from left to right: \u00c2\u00a0Eastern box turtle (<em>Terrapene carolina carolina<\/em>), Northern diamondback terrapin (<em>Malaclemys terrapin terrapin<\/em>), and Eastern painted turtle (<em>Chrysemys picta picta<\/em>). \u00c2\u00a0These species represent, respectively, woodland edge and backyard habitat, coastal estuaries &amp; salt marshes, and fresh water ponds.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/post-three-amigos-960.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15052\" title=\"post three amigos 480\" src=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/post-three-amigos-480.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/post-three-amigos-480.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/post-three-amigos-480-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/post-three-amigos-480-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em><strong>Box Turtle, Diamondback Terrapin and Painted Hatchlings<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">For identification purposes, we have posted the carapace (top shell) and plastron (bottom shell) of each of these three species. \u00c2\u00a0From a draw poker perspective, we&#8217;ve decided to eschew new cards and play the hand we&#8217;ve been dealt: \u00c2\u00a0three of a (different) kind. \u00c2\u00a0Clearly a winning hand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Box Turtle, Diamondback Terrapin and Painted Hatchlings It&#8217;s beginning to feel a lot like September in May here on the Massachusetts SouthCoast as the Turtle Journal team discovers hatchling after hatchling, emerging from their initial winter&#8217;s hibernacula. \u00c2\u00a0The three amigas pictured above include, from left to right: \u00c2\u00a0Eastern box turtle (Terrapene carolina carolina), Northern diamondback [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[402,824,23,826],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15051"}],"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=15051"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15051\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15062,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15051\/revisions\/15062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}