{"id":3050,"date":"2009-09-24T17:04:59","date_gmt":"2009-09-24T22:04:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/?p=3050"},"modified":"2010-01-16T11:51:07","modified_gmt":"2010-01-16T16:51:07","slug":"eastern-box-turtle-hatchlings-emerge-on-southcoast-of-massachusetts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/?p=3050","title":{"rendered":"Eastern Box Turtle Hatchlings Emerge on SouthCoast of Massachusetts"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Eastern Box Turtle Newly Emerged from SouthCoast Nest<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

A\u00c2\u00a0 female Eastern box turtle (Terrapene carolina carolina<\/em>)<\/strong> laid a very, very large nest in Wareham on the SouthCoast of Massachusetts this last June.\u00c2\u00a0 How large?\u00c2\u00a0 The nest contained nine plump and healthy eggs, enhanced by frequent and heavy summer rains.<\/p>\n

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Eastern Box Turtle Hatchlings and Pipped Eggs<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

This morning these eggs began to pip and two hatchlings emerged by noon.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 The remainder of the nine eggs have pipped with various body parts pertruding from the weakened shells as they, too, struggle to greet the world.<\/p>\n

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Eastern Box Turtle Hatchling Emerges<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Quite a bit larger than their terrapin cousins, these babies still have a fairly large yolk sac.\u00c2\u00a0 They’ll be released back at their natal nest site as soon as they have all emerged and their yolk sacs have been sufficiently absorbed.<\/p>\n

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Eastern Box Turtle Hatchling with Large Yolk Sac<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

And here are a few more snapshots of our new babies.<\/p>\n

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Newly Emerged Eastern Box Turtle<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Eastern Box Turtle Hatchling Profile<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Eastern Box Turtle Newly Emerged from SouthCoast Nest A\u00c2\u00a0 female Eastern box turtle (Terrapene carolina carolina) laid a very, very large nest in Wareham on the SouthCoast of Massachusetts this last June.\u00c2\u00a0 How large?\u00c2\u00a0 The nest contained nine plump and healthy eggs, enhanced by frequent and heavy summer rains. Eastern Box Turtle Hatchlings and Pipped […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","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\/3050"}],"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=3050"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3050\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3920,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3050\/revisions\/3920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}