Since Conant and Collins refer to Emydoidea blandingii as the "semi-box turtle" (due to the anterior plastral hinge), I figured the box turtle crowd might be interested in this video I shot a few nights ago. I love the adroit manipulation of each egg after it is deposited (to move it forward into the flask). Notice how she continued to cover her nest at the end after I had already removed her 12 eggs for artificial incubation (to be released). Once this taxon begins oviposition, there's not much that will put them off...
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Semi-Box Turtle Laying Eggs *video*
RMB
Jun 29, 2007 02:38 PM
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RMB
Jun 29, 2007 02:40 PM
Hmmm, apparently the forum will not allow me to embed the video, so here is the link: www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyX1glL0SrE
Peeperskeeper
Jun 29, 2007 09:04 PM
Great video thanks for sharing ! !
