{"id":9511,"date":"2011-08-19T13:18:34","date_gmt":"2011-08-19T18:18:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/?p=9511"},"modified":"2011-08-19T16:11:24","modified_gmt":"2011-08-19T21:11:24","slug":"first-terrapin-hatchling-pips-towards-freedom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/?p=9511","title":{"rendered":"First Terrapin Hatchling &#8220;Pips&#8221; Towards Freedom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/pipped-terrapin-egg-960.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9513\" title=\"pipped terrapin egg 480\" src=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/pipped-terrapin-egg-480.jpg\" alt=\"pipped terrapin egg 480\" width=\"480\" height=\"356\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/pipped-terrapin-egg-480.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/pipped-terrapin-egg-480-300x222.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em>Diamondback Terrapin Egg Initial &#8220;Pip&#8221;<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A diamondback terrapin hatchling pecked a tiny hole in its egg about 1 pm this afternoon, August 19th, after 63 days of incubation.\u00c2\u00a0 This egg came from a nest deposited on June 17th inside a slate stone walkway off Lieutenant Island&#8217;s Marsh Road and relocated to Turtle Point for safety.\u00c2\u00a0 Turtle hatchlings are equipped with a tiny sharp egg tooth that they use to &#8220;pip&#8221; through the egg shell.\u00c2\u00a0 Once the shell is pierced, they use their sharp and powerful claws to rip open the egg.\u00c2\u00a0 The process from initial &#8220;pipping&#8221; until emergence can take from four to five days, during which time hatchlings are extremely vulnerable to predators from insects to raccoons.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Turtle Journal expects to see our first emerged hatchling of the season within the next 24 to 48 hours.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Diamondback Terrapin Egg Initial &#8220;Pip&#8221; A diamondback terrapin hatchling pecked a tiny hole in its egg about 1 pm this afternoon, August 19th, after 63 days of incubation.\u00c2\u00a0 This egg came from a nest deposited on June 17th inside a slate stone walkway off Lieutenant Island&#8217;s Marsh Road and relocated to Turtle Point for safety.\u00c2\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/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\/9511"}],"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=9511"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9511\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9517,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9511\/revisions\/9517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}