{"id":4670,"date":"2000-12-27T11:53:13","date_gmt":"2000-12-27T16:53:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/?p=4670"},"modified":"2010-03-03T11:58:48","modified_gmt":"2010-03-03T16:58:48","slug":"survival-skills-%e2%80%94-27-december-2000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/?p=4670","title":{"rendered":"Survival Skills \u00e2\u20ac\u201d 27 December 2000"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2000\/12\/12-27-1-480.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4672\" title=\"12-27-1 480\" src=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2000\/12\/12-27-1-480.jpg\" alt=\"12-27-1 480\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2000\/12\/12-27-1-480.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2000\/12\/12-27-1-480-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: center\"><strong><em>Ice Floes Grip South Wellfleet Marsh<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\">As winter ice locks down the Wellfleet marshes a full month earlier than last year\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s freeze, one cannot help but marvel at the amazing survival skills of our local diamondback terrapins who live at the northernmost edge of the species\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 habitat.\u00c2\u00a0 Unrelenting northwest gales and frigid temperatures have transformed the Land of Ooze into an Arctic landscape.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2000\/12\/12-27-2-480.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4673\" title=\"12-27-2 480\" src=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2000\/12\/12-27-2-480.jpg\" alt=\"12-27-2 480\" width=\"480\" height=\"290\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2000\/12\/12-27-2-480.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2000\/12\/12-27-2-480-300x181.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: center\"><strong><em>Tiny Terrapin Hatchlings Emerged in Late Fall<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\">Hard to believe . . . just two months ago tiny 6-gram hatchlings were emerging from upland nest sites . . .<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2000\/12\/12-27-3.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4674\" title=\"12-27-3\" src=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2000\/12\/12-27-3.jpg\" alt=\"12-27-3\" width=\"480\" height=\"431\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2000\/12\/12-27-3.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2000\/12\/12-27-3-300x269.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>. . . and scurrying for the protective nursery habitat of these same salt marsh creeks.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2000\/12\/12-27-4.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4675\" title=\"12-27-4\" src=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2000\/12\/12-27-4.jpg\" alt=\"12-27-4\" width=\"480\" height=\"330\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2000\/12\/12-27-4.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2000\/12\/12-27-4-300x206.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\">How they manage to endure these harsh winter conditions while their cousins are still basking in Florida sunshine challenges researchers and poets alike.\u00c2\u00a0 Three hundred eighty years ago, their ancestors watched stoically as long boats from the Mayflower with our ancestors aboard investigated Wellfleet Bay for the first time.\u00c2\u00a0 So, I guess they may be even better at this than we are; they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve had a lot more practice.\u00c2\u00a0 Still, when you look at the very spot where these little critters disappeared into the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153safety\u00e2\u20ac\u009d of the marsh in October, you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve got to admire their plucky survival skills.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ice Floes Grip South Wellfleet Marsh As winter ice locks down the Wellfleet marshes a full month earlier than last year\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s freeze, one cannot help but marvel at the amazing survival skills of our local diamondback terrapins who live at the northernmost edge of the species\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 habitat.\u00c2\u00a0 Unrelenting northwest gales and frigid temperatures have transformed [&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":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4670"}],"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=4670"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4670\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4679,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4670\/revisions\/4679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}