{"id":1205,"date":"2011-06-09T09:52:41","date_gmt":"2011-06-09T13:52:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/?p=1205"},"modified":"2011-06-09T09:52:41","modified_gmt":"2011-06-09T13:52:41","slug":"watch-for-turtles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/2011\/06\/09\/watch-for-turtles\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch for turtles!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Curt Stager and I talk about snapping turtles in today&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.northcountrypublicradio.org\/news\/story\/11771\/20110609\/natural-selections-snapping-turtle\">Natural Selections<\/a>&#8230;notably about how cranky they are, and dangerous to approach in case you want to help them across the road to safety. (Tip: gently urge them along with, say, along-handled\u00a0 shovel.)<\/p>\n<p>Our conversation prompted a quick call from a fellw turtle-lover, who reminds us that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dec.ny.gov\/animals\/7166.html\">Blandings turtles<\/a>, an endangered species in <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/files\/2011\/06\/blandings-trurtle.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1206\" title=\"blandings trurtle\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/files\/2011\/06\/blandings-trurtle.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"260\" height=\"194\" \/><\/a>most of their range, also live here and try to cross our roads during breeding season. Which is now.<\/p>\n<p>These guys look like slow-moving WWII helmets. First &#8211; don&#8217;t hit them! I will never fathom the vehicular sport of turtle-murder, and they certainly move slowly enough to make avoiding them pretty simple. Second, they are much easier to assist, since they don&#8217;t whip their necks around to bite you when you approach.<\/p>\n<p>Care is advised, of course.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a fun <a href=\"http:\/\/www.northcountrypublicradio.org\/news\/archive.html?mm=08&amp;dd=11&amp;yyyy=2003&amp;getnewsfordate=Go\">story<\/a> with lots of info about saving turtles, reported by David Sommerstein\u00a0 in 2003.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Curt Stager and I talk about snapping turtles in today&#8217;s Natural Selections&#8230;notably about how cranky [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1205"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1205\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}