{"id":218,"date":"2008-09-03T20:14:26","date_gmt":"2008-09-04T00:14:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/?p=218"},"modified":"2008-09-30T09:01:55","modified_gmt":"2008-09-30T13:01:55","slug":"eastern-box-turtle-hatchlings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/?p=218","title":{"rendered":"Eastern Box Turtle Hatchlings"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mceTemp\">Gardening can yield some unusual crops. A resident of Paine Hollow in South Wellfleet was clearing the plantings around her cottage when she discovered a hole in the mulch covered bed. At the bottom, four perfectly healthy, but grumpy Eastern box turtle hatchlings were hunkered down for an overcast, windy and\u00c2\u00a0raw September day.\u00c2\u00a0<\/div>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/T3f3Mta9xDM&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/T3f3Mta9xDM&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: center\"><strong><em>Four Eastern Box Turtle Hatchlings<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>They seem small &#8230; that is, until you compare them to diamondback terrapin hatchlings that emerged a short distance away.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/ebt-0021.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-220\" title=\"DBT EBT Comparison\" src=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/ebt-0021.jpg\" alt=\"DBT &amp; EBT Size Comparison\" width=\"500\" height=\"285\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/ebt-0021.jpg 840w, https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/ebt-0021-300x171.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: center\"><strong><em>Comparison of Terrapin (Left) &amp; Box Turtle (Right) Hatchlings<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>These hatchlings were discovered at the edge of conservation land, the Whale Bone Trail,\u00c2\u00a0that I had assesssed last fall as prime Eastern box turtle habitat.\u00c2\u00a0 What a beautiful way to have your assessment confirmed!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/ebt-004.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-221\" title=\"EBT Hatchling\" src=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/ebt-004.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"361\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/ebt-004.jpg 840w, https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/ebt-004-300x217.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: center\"><strong><em>Eastern Box Turtle Hatchling Close-Up<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/ebt-002.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gardening can yield some unusual crops. A resident of Paine Hollow in South Wellfleet was clearing the plantings around her cottage when she discovered a hole in the mulch covered bed. At the bottom, four perfectly healthy, but grumpy Eastern box turtle hatchlings were hunkered down for an overcast, windy and\u00c2\u00a0raw September day.\u00c2\u00a0 Four Eastern [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[23],"tags":[195,193,21,22,192,40,194],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218"}],"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=218"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":363,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218\/revisions\/363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}