{"id":9345,"date":"2011-06-09T22:16:20","date_gmt":"2011-06-10T03:16:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/?p=9345"},"modified":"2011-06-09T22:18:30","modified_gmt":"2011-06-10T03:18:30","slug":"one-year-old-female-spotted-turtle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/?p=9345","title":{"rendered":"One-Year-Old Female Spotted Turtle"},"content":{"rendered":"

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One-Year-Old Female Spotted Turtle (Clemmys guttata)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Turtle Journal visited the abandoned Goldwitz cranberry bog in Marion yesterday morning to check for signs of turtle nesting.\u00c2\u00a0 As Don Lewis patrolled\u00c2\u00a0a shallow channel, which had been largely drained by operations in an adjacent active bog, he spotted a tiny spotted turtle trying to\u00c2\u00a0soak\u00c2\u00a0in the last puddle of ooze.\u00c2\u00a0 So little moisture remained in the channel that the turtle was unable to disappear into the bottom before Don was able to scoop her up\u00c2\u00a0with a hand capture.\u00c2\u00a0 Normally, she would have disappeared under murky water and into the soft bottom before we got within eyeshot of her.<\/p>\n

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Spotted Turtle Carapace: Single Growth Line<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Examining this beautiful little turtle, we find only a single growth line in each scute,\u00c2\u00a0indicating that she is entering her second year\u00c2\u00a0 of life.<\/p>\n

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Sexual Dichromatism: Female Spotted Turtle<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

It took a while before this shy juvenile dared to show her head.\u00c2\u00a0 Once she did, it was easy to identify her gender as female with\u00c2\u00a0her brightly colored neck.\u00c2\u00a0 Males have drably\u00c2\u00a0hued throats.<\/p>\n

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One-Year-Old Female Spotted Turtle<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

So few spotted turtles remain in Goldwitz bog that we rarely see more than a couple of adults during the entire mating season.\u00c2\u00a0 When we began observing this bog channel seven years ago, nearly a dozen adults would be seen in the spring\u00c2\u00a0mating aggregation.\u00c2\u00a0 So, it’s a real pleasure with such reduced numbers\u00c2\u00a0to find a new recruit in this distressed population.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One-Year-Old Female Spotted Turtle (Clemmys guttata) Turtle Journal visited the abandoned Goldwitz cranberry bog in Marion yesterday morning to check for signs of turtle nesting.\u00c2\u00a0 As Don Lewis patrolled\u00c2\u00a0a shallow channel, which had been largely drained by operations in an adjacent active bog, he spotted a tiny spotted turtle trying to\u00c2\u00a0soak\u00c2\u00a0in the last puddle of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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\/9345"}],"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=9345"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9345\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9367,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9345\/revisions\/9367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}