{"id":9541,"date":"2011-08-20T17:20:53","date_gmt":"2011-08-20T22:20:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/?p=9541"},"modified":"2011-08-20T17:20:53","modified_gmt":"2011-08-20T22:20:53","slug":"witness-the-miracle-of-birth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/?p=9541","title":{"rendered":"Witness the Miracle of Birth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/emerging-hatchling-004-960.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9544\" title=\"emerging hatchling 004 480\" src=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/emerging-hatchling-004-480.jpg\" alt=\"emerging hatchling 004 480\" width=\"480\" height=\"386\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/emerging-hatchling-004-480.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/emerging-hatchling-004-480-300x241.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em>Diamondback Terrapin Hatchling Emerges<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The full Turtle Journal team hit the field this Saturday morning to check for hatching diamondback terrapins and stumbled across\u00c2\u00a0a most\u00c2\u00a0awe-inspiring moment:\u00c2\u00a0 the\u00c2\u00a0miracle of birth.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/hatchling-patrol-cropped-960.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9552\" title=\"hatchling patrol cropped 480\" src=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/hatchling-patrol-cropped-480.jpg\" alt=\"hatchling patrol cropped 480\" width=\"480\" height=\"583\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/hatchling-patrol-cropped-480.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/hatchling-patrol-cropped-480-246x300.jpg 246w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em>Sue Wieber Nourse &amp; Rufus on Patrol<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sue Wieber Nourse, the one with the clip board, and Rufus Wieber Lewis, the four legged researcher with red hair and pink tongue, patrolled Lieutenant Island&#8217;s Marsh Road and Turtle Point for signs of emerging nests.\u00c2\u00a0 At the high dune of Turtle Point, the team discovered several nests on the cusp of &#8220;pipping.&#8221;\u00c2\u00a0 In one nest, three of the babies were advanced enough to be born in front of our video cameras.<\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"480\" height=\"390\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/I79rrmrbICs?version=3&amp;hl=en_US\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"480\" height=\"390\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/I79rrmrbICs?version=3&amp;hl=en_US\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em>Witness the Awe-Inspiring Miracle of Birth<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Diamondback Terrapin Hatchling Emerges The full Turtle Journal team hit the field this Saturday morning to check for hatching diamondback terrapins and stumbled across\u00c2\u00a0a most\u00c2\u00a0awe-inspiring moment:\u00c2\u00a0 the\u00c2\u00a0miracle of birth. 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