{"id":4757,"date":"2001-02-07T15:28:29","date_gmt":"2001-02-07T20:28:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/?p=4757"},"modified":"2010-03-03T15:36:38","modified_gmt":"2010-03-03T20:36:38","slug":"who-set-the-alarm-clock-for-february-%e2%80%94-7-february-2001","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/?p=4757","title":{"rendered":"Who Set the Alarm Clock for February? \u00e2\u20ac\u201d 7 February 2001"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\">Yesterday afternoon residents spotted a 7\u00e2\u20ac\u201c8 year old\u00c2\u00a0female terrapin plodding out of Chipman\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Cove, heading onto the beach.\u00c2\u00a0 She is a still immature female less than 12.5 centimeters plastron length and weighing only 472 grams.\u00c2\u00a0 She probably will not reach nesting maturity until the 2002 season.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2001\/02\/02-07-1-480.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4759\" title=\"02-07-1 480\" src=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2001\/02\/02-07-1-480.jpg\" alt=\"02-07-1 480\" width=\"480\" height=\"366\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2001\/02\/02-07-1-480.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2001\/02\/02-07-1-480-300x228.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: center\"><strong><em>Pre-Pubescent Female Diamondback Terrapin<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\">Still groggy, she sports the telltale brownish stains which indicates recent withdrawal from her muddy hibernaculum.\u00c2\u00a0 Now, February 6 is <em><strong>not<\/strong><\/em> the date one expects terrapins to begin sashaying around the shoreline, especially out here at the end of the universe.\u00c2\u00a0 So, something unexpected woke her from slumber.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2001\/02\/02-07-4-480.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4760\" title=\"02-07-4 480\" src=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2001\/02\/02-07-4-480.jpg\" alt=\"02-07-4 480\" width=\"480\" height=\"323\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2001\/02\/02-07-4-480.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2001\/02\/02-07-4-480-300x201.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: center\"><strong><em>Pre-Pubescent Female Terrapin Carapace and Plastron<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\">Her right eyelid swelled from an abrasion and her carapace showed cracks and scratches which appear to have been caused by a raking instrument.\u00c2\u00a0 (Yesterday brought an invitingly low tide for mucking on the tidal flats.)\u00c2\u00a0 With no open wound nor bleeding, the best bet seems to be trying to induce her back into brumation.\u00c2\u00a0 She\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s being kept in a cool, dark, but comfortable environment, so with any luck, she can resume a well-earned winter rest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday afternoon residents spotted a 7\u00e2\u20ac\u201c8 year old\u00c2\u00a0female terrapin plodding out of Chipman\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Cove, heading onto the beach.\u00c2\u00a0 She is a still immature female less than 12.5 centimeters plastron length and weighing only 472 grams.\u00c2\u00a0 She probably will not reach nesting maturity until the 2002 season. Pre-Pubescent Female Diamondback Terrapin Still groggy, she sports the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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\/4757"}],"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=4757"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4757\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4764,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4757\/revisions\/4764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}