{"id":4713,"date":"2001-01-17T12:54:06","date_gmt":"2001-01-17T17:54:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/?p=4713"},"modified":"2010-03-03T12:59:48","modified_gmt":"2010-03-03T17:59:48","slug":"january-thaw-%e2%80%94-17-january-2001","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/?p=4713","title":{"rendered":"January Thaw \u00e2\u20ac\u201d 17 January 2001"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A balmy 40+ degrees and a gentle breeze transformed the ice encrusted Fox Island marsh into a salty hayfield.\u00c2\u00a0 Exposed by the thaw, yet nearly invisible beneath thick, matted marsh grass, was the remains of an adult male terrapin.<\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/01-17-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4714 aligncenter\" title=\"01-17-1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/01-17-1.jpg\" alt=\"01-17-1\" width=\"394\" height=\"332\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/01-17-1.jpg 394w, https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/01-17-1-300x252.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 394px) 100vw, 394px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: center\"><strong><em>Adult Male Terrapin Remains in Fox Island WMA<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\">Plastron and carapace smooth by age, this mature male measured 12.1 centimeters straight-line carapace length and 10.5 centimeters plastron length.\u00c2\u00a0 The shell itself was water-logged from long exposure.\u00c2\u00a0 It exhibited no scratches nor predation marks.<\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: center\">\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/01-17-2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4715 aligncenter\" title=\"01-17-2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/01-17-2.jpg\" alt=\"01-17-2\" width=\"450\" height=\"342\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/01-17-2.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/01-17-2-300x228.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: center\"><strong><em>Terrapin Carcass Embedded in\u00c2\u00a0Thick Marsh Grass<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Since 3 November, the Fox Island Wildlife Management Area has revealed a total of 25 diamondback terrapin remains: 12 identified as male, 11 as female.\u00c2\u00a0 They ranged in age from several three-year-old juveniles to many smooth shelled elders.\u00c2\u00a0 Five had previously been observed and marked, including one male which was seen active and healthy as late as 30 September of this year.<\/p>\n<p>Last year this same area yielded nearly a hundred dead turtles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A balmy 40+ degrees and a gentle breeze transformed the ice encrusted Fox Island marsh into a salty hayfield.\u00c2\u00a0 Exposed by the thaw, yet nearly invisible beneath thick, matted marsh grass, was the remains of an adult male terrapin. Adult Male Terrapin Remains in Fox Island WMA Plastron and carapace smooth by age, this mature [&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\/4713"}],"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=4713"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4713\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4719,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4713\/revisions\/4719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}