{"id":9662,"date":"2011-10-06T15:31:16","date_gmt":"2011-10-06T20:31:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/?p=9662"},"modified":"2011-10-06T15:31:16","modified_gmt":"2011-10-06T20:31:16","slug":"homeless-street-turtle-finds-a-sanctuary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/?p=9662","title":{"rendered":"Homeless “Street Turtle” Finds a Sanctuary"},"content":{"rendered":"

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35-Year Old Female Eastern Box Turtle<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

In mid August a dog walker spotted an Eastern box turtle strolling down the middle of Rockdale Avenue in urban New Bedford.\u00c2\u00a0 He snatched this beauty before she could be crushed by the morning traffic.\u00c2\u00a0 Not knowing what to do with her, he brought her to Buttonwood Park and luckily ran into Gina Purtell, the Director of Mass Audubon’s Allens Pond Wildlife Sanctuary.\u00c2\u00a0 The Turtle Journal Team and Mass Audubon have been partners for more than a decade.\u00c2\u00a0 So, Gina called the Turtle Guy, Don Lewis, to work out a plan to rescue this gorgeous female box turtle.<\/p>\n

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Don Lewis Measures Eastern Box Turtle’s Girth<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Since box turtles are territorial, releasing her in Buttonwood Park would have prompted her to dare the traffic once again and return to the busy streets of downtown New Bedford.\u00c2\u00a0 We decided to hold her until early October and release her in the quality box turtle habitat of the new Great Neck Wildlife Sanctuary in Wareham.\u00c2\u00a0 Our hypothesis is that releasing her immediately before the long winter brumation may reset her geographic compass to the new location.\u00c2\u00a0 This 35-year-old, extremely healthy female weighed 675 grams.\u00c2\u00a0 Within minutes of her release about a quarter mile deep into the sanctuary, she burrowed into a turtle-made hummock of pine needles and disappeared from view.\u00c2\u00a0 An extremely healthy sign.\u00c2\u00a0 This lovely lady is marked as Eastern box turtle #2 and the Turtle Journal team will be checking on her progress come springtime.<\/p>\n

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Turtle Journal Takes Data before Release<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

See the Wareham Week\/Village Soup<\/a> story about this turtle rescue by clicking on the image above.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

35-Year Old Female Eastern Box Turtle In mid August a dog walker spotted an Eastern box turtle strolling down the middle of Rockdale Avenue in urban New Bedford.\u00c2\u00a0 He snatched this beauty before she could be crushed by the morning traffic.\u00c2\u00a0 Not knowing what to do with her, he brought her to Buttonwood Park and […]<\/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\/9662"}],"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=9662"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9662\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9681,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9662\/revisions\/9681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}