{"id":5262,"date":"2001-05-20T20:25:09","date_gmt":"2001-05-21T01:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/?p=5262"},"modified":"2010-03-11T20:42:46","modified_gmt":"2010-03-12T01:42:46","slug":"transformation-%e2%80%94-20-may-2001","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/?p=5262","title":{"rendered":"Transformation \u00e2\u20ac\u201d 20 May 2001"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\">Seventy-two hours of warmth and hydration have transformed the tiny deformed hatchling Knotch.\u00c2\u00a0 Little remains of the distortions caused by root predation and drought.\u00c2\u00a0 Today she looks as normal as any emerging \u00e2\u20ac\u0153fall\u00e2\u20ac\u009d hatchling \u00e2\u20ac\u201d with one minor exception (more of which anon).\u00c2\u00a0 The before and after shots are amazing and I would have suspected trick photography, had I not snapped the images myself.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2001\/05\/05-20-1-2-480.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5265\" title=\"05-20-1-2 480\" src=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2001\/05\/05-20-1-2-480.jpg\" alt=\"05-20-1-2 480\" width=\"480\" height=\"260\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2001\/05\/05-20-1-2-480.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2001\/05\/05-20-1-2-480-300x162.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: center\"><strong><em>Miraculous Improvement in &#8220;Knotch&#8221; Hatchling<\/em><\/strong>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\">You recall the right side of her carapace was horribly dented and distorted. Yet, look at her shell today.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2001\/05\/05-20-3-4-480.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5266\" title=\"05-20-3-4 480\" src=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2001\/05\/05-20-3-4-480.jpg\" alt=\"05-20-3-4 480\" width=\"480\" height=\"312\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2001\/05\/05-20-3-4-480.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2001\/05\/05-20-3-4-480-300x195.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: center\"><strong><em>Amazing Improvement in &#8220;Knotch&#8221; Plastron<\/em><\/strong>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Even her plastron has responded to treatment and has largely rebounded to near normal.\u00c2\u00a0 Only a slight indentation remains along the abdominal scutes on either side of her residual yolk sac, but you can see how much of the original distortion has evened out.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2001\/05\/05-20-5-480.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5267\" title=\"05-20-5 480\" src=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2001\/05\/05-20-5-480.jpg\" alt=\"05-20-5 480\" width=\"480\" height=\"323\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2001\/05\/05-20-5-480.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2001\/05\/05-20-5-480-300x201.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: center\"><strong><em>Over-Wintered Hatchling &#8220;Knotch&#8221; Awaits Release<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\">And what\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153minor exception\u00e2\u20ac\u009d that distinguishes Knotch (and Ott, too; see \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Of Things Big and Small\u00e2\u20ac\u009d on 12 May) from hatchlings that emerge from the nest in the fall?\u00c2\u00a0 I must admit that I missed it myself until I woke with a start in the middle of the night in a \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Eureka!\u00e2\u20ac\u009d moment.\u00c2\u00a0 \u00e2\u20ac\u0153By Golly, that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s what seemed so odd.\u00c2\u00a0 I knew something was missing.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d And, of course, it was.<\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\">What?\u00c2\u00a0 The egg tooth.\u00c2\u00a0 Those Wellfleet hatchlings, which overwinter in the nest, pip through the egg shell in the fall, but remain buried underground inside the opened shell in the nest\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s egg chamber.\u00c2\u00a0 So it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s no surprise the egg tooth disappears during the winter before these late bloomers emerge in the springtime.<\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\">The weather has been a little chilly with temperatures still dropping into the mid-40s and the wind blowing off the Atlantic.\u00c2\u00a0 So, Knotch has remained in her makeshift terrarium for a little longer than anticipated.\u00c2\u00a0 It has all the comforts, and a lot more safety, than her nursery marsh habitat.\u00c2\u00a0 But even for tiny, defenseless hatchlings, there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s no place like home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seventy-two hours of warmth and hydration have transformed the tiny deformed hatchling Knotch.\u00c2\u00a0 Little remains of the distortions caused by root predation and drought.\u00c2\u00a0 Today she looks as normal as any emerging \u00e2\u20ac\u0153fall\u00e2\u20ac\u009d hatchling \u00e2\u20ac\u201d with one minor exception (more of which anon).\u00c2\u00a0 The before and after shots are amazing and I would have suspected [&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\/5262"}],"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=5262"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5271,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5262\/revisions\/5271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}