{"id":5352,"date":"2001-05-30T17:01:51","date_gmt":"2001-05-30T22:01:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/?p=5352"},"modified":"2010-03-12T17:07:39","modified_gmt":"2010-03-12T22:07:39","slug":"one-release-one-capture-%e2%80%94-30-may-2001","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/?p=5352","title":{"rendered":"One Release, One Capture \u00e2\u20ac\u201d 30 May 2001"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2001\/05\/05-30-1-480.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5354\" title=\"05-30-1 480\" src=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2001\/05\/05-30-1-480.jpg\" alt=\"05-30-1 480\" width=\"480\" height=\"447\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2001\/05\/05-30-1-480.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2001\/05\/05-30-1-480-300x279.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: center\"><strong><em>Terrapin Hatchling &#8220;J.P.&#8221; Ready for Release<\/em><\/strong>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\">It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s no life of leisure spending time in the recovery lab.\u00c2\u00a0 We expect each hatchling to return to the wild in better condition than when it arrived.\u00c2\u00a0 Normally that process involves heat and hydration and ample safe space to exercise its limbs in swimming and crawling.\u00c2\u00a0 The baby terrapin discovered in a Lieutenant Island basement yesterday took exercise to the extreme, doing one limb (hand) push-ups, Jack Palance style.\u00c2\u00a0 After such a feat of physical prowess, he earned the name \u00e2\u20ac\u0153J.P.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and also won his release into the nursery marsh off Turtle Point this morning.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2001\/05\/05-30-2-480.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5355\" title=\"05-30-2 480\" src=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2001\/05\/05-30-2-480.jpg\" alt=\"05-30-2 480\" width=\"480\" height=\"481\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2001\/05\/05-30-2-480.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2001\/05\/05-30-2-480-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2001\/05\/05-30-2-480-299x300.jpg 299w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: center\"><strong><em>Turtling in Blackfish Creek<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\">Temperatures remained quite cool for the end of May and a stiff northwest wind continued to churn Blackfish Creek into an inky mix.\u00c2\u00a0 Few turtles were observed flowing with the noon low and only one was captured when the tide reached full ebb.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2001\/05\/05-30-3.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5356\" title=\"05-30-3\" src=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2001\/05\/05-30-3.jpg\" alt=\"05-30-3\" width=\"480\" height=\"378\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2001\/05\/05-30-3.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2001\/05\/05-30-3-300x236.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: center\"><strong><em>Male Terrapin #1076 Heads Back into Blackfish Creek<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\">Terrapin 1076 is a good size, mature male.\u00c2\u00a0 He measured 12.6 centimeters carapace length and weighed a hefty 330 grams.\u00c2\u00a0 Like many of our recent captures, he had mud caked inside his frontal cavity and along his rear side.\u00c2\u00a0 He also had light green algae rimming his rear marginals and under his chin, too.\u00c2\u00a0 All indications seem to point to a delayed or stuttered start for the Wellfleet Bay terrapin population in 2001.\u00c2\u00a0 We need to wait for the kick-off of nesting as a second benchmark to gauge 2001.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Terrapin Hatchling &#8220;J.P.&#8221; Ready for Release\u00c2\u00a0 It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s no life of leisure spending time in the recovery lab.\u00c2\u00a0 We expect each hatchling to return to the wild in better condition than when it arrived.\u00c2\u00a0 Normally that process involves heat and hydration and ample safe space to exercise its limbs in swimming and crawling.\u00c2\u00a0 The baby terrapin [&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\/5352"}],"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=5352"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5361,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5352\/revisions\/5361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}