The Turtle Timescale – Conservation Across Centuries
Kiley Briggs
Due to their long lifespans, a turtle species can become functionally extinct while just a handful of survivors live in isolation for decades, possibly more than a century.
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The Texas Tortoise
Gopher and Desert Tortoises are fairly well known, but a fourth tortoise species native to the United States flies under the radar; the Texas Tortoise.
Baby Turtles
This nest wasn’t just special because it belonged to a Wood Turtle; it belonged to Miranda, a Wood Turtle who was hit by a car and nearly died several years earlier.
Rattlesnakes: Reputation vs. Reality
While it is true they are venomous and that a bite from a rattlesnake is potentially life threatening, they aren’t out there looking for people to chase and are actually fairly docile animals.
More than just camouflage: relationships between snake patterns and behaviors.
Have you ever wondered why some snakes have stripes, others are banded or spotted, and some are uniform in color? It isn’t always clear why an animal is patterned or colored one way or another, but nature is rarely random…
Rehab Wood Turtle
A young male Wood Turtle that was hit by a car last summer, patched up by our vet, and later released with small radio transmitter, survived his first winter since his injury and is in great health.
Ring-necked Snakes
Views:12,096 views Vermont is not known for having lots of different snake species, just 11, and where I…
The Wood Turtle Emergence
Views:1,089 views Spring in Northern New England is off to an early start. As water from melting snow…