{"id":9049,"date":"2011-05-04T15:36:10","date_gmt":"2011-05-04T20:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/?p=9049"},"modified":"2011-05-04T15:36:10","modified_gmt":"2011-05-04T20:36:10","slug":"spotted-turtle-1-returns-to-mating-aggregation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/?p=9049","title":{"rendered":"Spotted Turtle #1 Returns to Mating Aggregation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/spotted-1-4-May-2011-001-960.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9057\" title=\"spotted 1 4 May 2011 001 480\" src=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/spotted-1-4-May-2011-001-480.jpg\" alt=\"spotted 1 4 May 2011 001 480\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/spotted-1-4-May-2011-001-480.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/spotted-1-4-May-2011-001-480-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em>Sue Wieber Nourse Examines Spotted Male Turtle #1<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\">Although today was gray and overcast, Sue Wieber Nourse took the Turtle Journal Turtle Dog (Rufus Retriever) to the abandoned Goldwitz cranberry bog for exercise and to check the spotted turtle mating aggregation for action.\u00c2\u00a0 At the bottom of one of the bog channels, Sue discovered mature male Spotted Turtle #1.\u00c2\u00a0 He was first captured in late April 2006\u00c2\u00a0on our very first expedition to this abandoned bog with students from her Advanced Marine Science class.\u00c2\u00a0 Spotted #1 was the first spotted turtle captured for research on the South Coast of Massachusetts.\u00c2\u00a0 He was last seen in April 2010 and that story can be read on Turtle Journal&#8217;s\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/?p=5819\" target=\"_blank\">Marked Male Spotted Turtle Rediscovered Four Years Later in Mating Aggregation<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/spotted-1-4-May-2011-006-960.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9053\" title=\"spotted 1 4 May 2011 006 480\" src=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/spotted-1-4-May-2011-006-480.jpg\" alt=\"spotted 1 4 May 2011 006 480\" width=\"480\" height=\"629\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/spotted-1-4-May-2011-006-480.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/spotted-1-4-May-2011-006-480-228x300.jpg 228w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: center\"><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/spotted-1-4-May-2011-006-960.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">Male Spotted Turtle (Clemys guttata) Number #1<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\">Spotted #1 lost his right rear limb below the joint between 2006 and 2010.\u00c2\u00a0 Yet, today the remaining\u00c2\u00a0limb stump looked healthy and healed.\u00c2\u00a0 Spotted #1 shows all the key male identifying characteristics of the species.\u00c2\u00a0 He has the drably colored chin and neck, the concavity in the center posterior of his plastron, and the thick, long male tail with anal opening far beyond the edge of the carapace.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/spotted-1-4-May-2011-012-960.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9051\" title=\"spotted 1 4 May 2011 012 480\" src=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/spotted-1-4-May-2011-012-480.jpg\" alt=\"spotted 1 4 May 2011 012 480\" width=\"480\" height=\"292\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/spotted-1-4-May-2011-012-480.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/spotted-1-4-May-2011-012-480-300x182.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em>Large Leech Attacking Spotted Turtle #1<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\">A little worrisome is that Spotted #1 has lost five grams of weight since April 2010.\u00c2\u00a0 Some of that lost mass may have been caused by the large leech that Sue discovered\u00c2\u00a0embedded to\u00c2\u00a0his neck.\u00c2\u00a0 She obviously removed the leech after quickly documenting its presence.\u00c2\u00a0 No apologies for interference.\u00c2\u00a0 We&#8217;re saving the world one turtle at a time.\u00c2\u00a0 Leeches will have to find their own champion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sue Wieber Nourse Examines Spotted Male Turtle #1 Although today was gray and overcast, Sue Wieber Nourse took the Turtle Journal Turtle Dog (Rufus Retriever) to the abandoned Goldwitz cranberry bog for exercise and to check the spotted turtle mating aggregation for action.\u00c2\u00a0 At the bottom of one of the bog channels, Sue discovered mature 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