{"id":5224,"date":"2001-05-18T18:52:26","date_gmt":"2001-05-18T23:52:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/?p=5224"},"modified":"2010-03-10T18:57:33","modified_gmt":"2010-03-10T23:57:33","slug":"will-miracles-never-cease-%e2%80%94-18-may-2001","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/?p=5224","title":{"rendered":"Will Miracles Never Cease? \u00e2\u20ac\u201d 18 May 2001"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2001\/05\/05-18-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5226 aligncenter\" title=\"05-18-1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2001\/05\/05-18-1.jpg\" alt=\"05-18-1\" width=\"301\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2001\/05\/05-18-1.jpg 301w, https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2001\/05\/05-18-1-250x300.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 301px) 100vw, 301px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: center\"><strong><em>Over-Wintered Hatchling Deformed by Root Depredation<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\">Knotch, the deformed hatchling rescued from Round Island yesterday, spent the night under a heat lamp, lounging in brackish paludal water \u00e2\u20ac\u201d a.k.a. a warm mud bath.\u00c2\u00a0 This morning her spirits soared.\u00c2\u00a0 As anyone approached her terrarium, she hissed \u00e2\u20ac\u2122em away.\u00c2\u00a0 Now, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve dealt with loads of hatchlings and with their tiny size, they much prefer to hunker down and keep very low profiles.\u00c2\u00a0 When you hit the scales at a quarter ounce, soaking wet, prudence dictates silence when a 150+ pound predator approaches.\u00c2\u00a0 Taunting it with a hiss seems like an open invitation to dinner.\u00c2\u00a0 But Knotch has her own ideas, and who\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s to challenge this feisty little survivor?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2001\/05\/05-18-2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5227\" title=\"05-18-2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2001\/05\/05-18-2.jpg\" alt=\"05-18-2\" width=\"480\" height=\"366\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2001\/05\/05-18-2.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2001\/05\/05-18-2-300x228.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: center\"><strong><em>Terrapin Deformation Begins to Heal<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\">Most amazing is her recuperative elasticity. The caved-in right side of her carapace, which seemed so horribly deformed yesterday, has ballooned back to near normal. Compare the photo of her last night (top) after a couple hours rehydrating with the one from this morning (bottom).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2001\/05\/05-18-3.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5228\" title=\"05-18-3\" src=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2001\/05\/05-18-3.jpg\" alt=\"05-18-3\" width=\"480\" height=\"374\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2001\/05\/05-18-3.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2001\/05\/05-18-3-300x233.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: center\"><strong><em>Hatchling Rescued from Coyote and Root Depredation<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\">Her plastron still remains distorted, but at this rate, I expect to find her fully healed by the day\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s end.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over-Wintered Hatchling Deformed by Root Depredation Knotch, the deformed hatchling rescued from Round Island yesterday, spent the night under a heat lamp, lounging in brackish paludal water \u00e2\u20ac\u201d a.k.a. a warm mud bath.\u00c2\u00a0 This morning her spirits soared.\u00c2\u00a0 As anyone approached her terrarium, she hissed \u00e2\u20ac\u2122em away.\u00c2\u00a0 Now, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve dealt with loads of hatchlings and [&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\/5224"}],"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=5224"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5233,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5224\/revisions\/5233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}