{"id":15705,"date":"2015-04-04T16:30:36","date_gmt":"2015-04-04T21:30:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/?p=15705"},"modified":"2015-04-04T16:30:36","modified_gmt":"2015-04-04T21:30:36","slug":"rufus-discovers-male-spotted-turtle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/?p=15705","title":{"rendered":"Rufus Discovers Male Spotted Turtle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/post-Turtle-Patrol-005-960-1220-Male.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15714\" title=\"post Turtle Patrol 005 480 1220 Male\" src=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/post-Turtle-Patrol-005-480-1220-Male.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"281\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/post-Turtle-Patrol-005-480-1220-Male.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/post-Turtle-Patrol-005-480-1220-Male-300x175.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>Male Spotted Turtle (Clemmys guttata) #1220<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Male spotted turtles gradually continue to emerge from woodland swamps and wetlands where they have spent the long, long winter burrowed under mud, scum and debris. \u00c2\u00a0They&#8217;re heading to spring mating aggregations in local bogs. \u00c2\u00a0Turtle Journal&#8217;s Sue Wieber Nourse found the first SouthCoast spotted turtle on April 1st and the second male on April 2nd.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Post-Turtle-Patrol-001-960.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15706\" title=\"Post Turtle Patrol 001 480\" src=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Post-Turtle-Patrol-001-480.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"715\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Post-Turtle-Patrol-001-480.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Post-Turtle-Patrol-001-480-201x300.jpg 201w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em><strong>Rufus the Turtle Dog Patrols Grassi Bog Path<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This afternoon, Rufus the Turtle Dog led the Turtle Journal search as she patrolled the Grassi Bog path with the temperature poking into the low fifties.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Post-Turtle-Patrol-002-960.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15708\" title=\"Post Turtle Patrol 002 480\" src=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Post-Turtle-Patrol-002-480.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"777\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Post-Turtle-Patrol-002-480.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Post-Turtle-Patrol-002-480-185x300.jpg 185w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em><strong>Fee-Fi-Fo-Fum, I Smell the Whiff of Turtle Swamp Scum<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">While her eyesight may not rank on the same scale as an eagle, no other creature surpasses her canine sense of smell. \u00c2\u00a0With tongue leading the way, Rufus clearly detected the odoriferous scent of a spotted turtle that had just spent six months buried deeply in swamp and pond scum.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Post-Turtle-Patrol-003-960.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15710\" title=\"Post Turtle Patrol 003 480\" src=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Post-Turtle-Patrol-003-480.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"670\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Post-Turtle-Patrol-003-480.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Post-Turtle-Patrol-003-480-214x300.jpg 214w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em><strong>Rufus the Turtle Dog Alerts the Team<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Confirming the turtle as she approached within eyesight, Rufus alerted the team of her discovery and stood guard until we arrived on scene.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Post-Turtle-Patrol-004-960-1220-Male.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15712\" title=\"Post Turtle Patrol 004 480 1220 Male\" src=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Post-Turtle-Patrol-004-480-1220-Male.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Post-Turtle-Patrol-004-480-1220-Male.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Post-Turtle-Patrol-004-480-1220-Male-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em><strong>Carapace and Plastron of Male Spotted Turtle #1220<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Male Spotted Turtle #1220 was &#8220;naturally&#8221; marked by dings along his carapace marginals. \u00c2\u00a0Today is the first time we&#8217;ve observed this specimen, which measured 4.25 inches long and weighed 7 ounces. You can clearly identify his maleness in the plastron photo on the right, spotlighted by his large, thick tail, the concavity in the middle of his abdominal scutes, and his dark drab colored neck.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Male Spotted Turtle (Clemmys guttata) #1220 Male spotted turtles gradually continue to emerge from woodland swamps and wetlands where they have spent the long, long winter burrowed under mud, scum and debris. \u00c2\u00a0They&#8217;re heading to spring mating aggregations in local bogs. \u00c2\u00a0Turtle Journal&#8217;s Sue Wieber Nourse found the first SouthCoast spotted turtle on April 1st [&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\/15705"}],"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=15705"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15732,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15705\/revisions\/15732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}