{"id":4885,"date":"2001-04-07T20:30:05","date_gmt":"2001-04-08T01:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/?p=4885"},"modified":"2010-03-03T20:37:57","modified_gmt":"2010-03-04T01:37:57","slug":"remains-of-seven-year-old-male-%e2%80%94-7-april-2001","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/?p=4885","title":{"rendered":"Remains of Seven-Year-Old Male \u00e2\u20ac\u201d 7 April 2001"},"content":{"rendered":"

The patrol area this morning was the wrack line\u00c2\u00a0around Indian Neck, largely flooded with a nearly 12-foot full moon high tide.\u00c2\u00a0 Air temperature lingered in the low forties under partly clear\/partly cloudy skies.\u00c2\u00a0 Water temperature over the tidal flats of Blackfish Creek remained at 46 degrees Fahrenheit, ten points below the wake-up call for sleeping terrapins hunkered under the mud.\u00c2\u00a0 As I passed a colleague\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s cottage on Anawan Road, I spotted the remains of a diamondback terrapin, obviously placed there by someone who had discovered it along the marsh and wanted us to find\u00c2\u00a0it.<\/p>\n

\"04-07-1\"<\/p>\n

Carcass of Seven-Year-Old Male Diamondback Terrapin<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

He proved to be a 4.5-inch, mature male about seven years old with slightly flared rear marginals.\u00c2\u00a0 He had never been observed before, so was unmarked.\u00c2\u00a0 Nor were there any predation scars anywhere on his shell.\u00c2\u00a0 From the state of these remains, I presume he died sometime in the fall.\u00c2\u00a0 While there is no obvious sign which points to the cause of death, I did note that the last few annual growth rings are very compressed.\u00c2\u00a0 Whether this observation indicates some stressful factor in his environment, or merely reflects his natural growth trend as he reached\u00c2\u00a0full size at maturity is uncertain.<\/p>\n

\"04-07-4<\/a><\/p>\n

Male Diamondback Terrapin Found Dead in Fox Island WMA<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The patrol area this morning was the wrack line\u00c2\u00a0around Indian Neck, largely flooded with a nearly 12-foot full moon high tide.\u00c2\u00a0 Air temperature lingered in the low forties under partly clear\/partly cloudy skies.\u00c2\u00a0 Water temperature over the tidal flats of Blackfish Creek remained at 46 degrees Fahrenheit, ten points below the wake-up call for sleeping […]<\/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\/4885"}],"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=4885"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4885\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4892,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4885\/revisions\/4892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}