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Snapping Turtles Hatching - Catherine - 09-25-2014 The video is speeded up otherwise it would take forever. Reptiles are slow to hatch. These are local Ontario snapping turtles being incubated at The Toronto Wildlife Centre. Quote:What can you do to help hatchling turtles?This is the message that comes with the video. The Toronto Wildlife Centre does a lot of good work. RE: Snapping Turtles Hatching - platy - 09-26-2014 Turtles are fascinating. Off topic to hatching eggs, but the leatherback turtle is seriously cool. They live off jellyfish and have this specialised oesophagus to move them down to the stomach. The whole video is interesting, but you can watch from around the 20 minute mark to check out the oesophagus http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kn0ZDR5qPRo RE: Snapping Turtles Hatching - Catherine - 09-26-2014 I think I knew that about the Leather Backs eating jelly fish. I can't remember where I learned that. Turtle are so interesting. From the tiniest hatchling to the biggest sea turtle they fascinate us. They are so very ancient and unchanged. I hope all our conservation efforts work. A world without turtles would be a poorer place. RE: Snapping Turtles Hatching - Cibach - 09-27-2014 What terrific work these people are doing. RE: Snapping Turtles Hatching - Catherine - 09-28-2014 It is amazing. A city like Toronto has a lot of wildlife because it is built on rivers and creeks and ravines and of course a great big lake. Toronto Wildlife takes in the animals from Toronto and the areas around it. Last winter it was bats in trouble. Every spring/summer there are baby ducks, squirrels, geese, song birds, racoons. There is a never ending supply of wildlife in need. We are so lucky to have a place like this. RE: Snapping Turtles Hatching - Tobi - 09-29-2014 Watching them hatch was fascinating. Thank goodness for time-lapse photography! Toronto Wildlife Centre is doing some great work RE: Snapping Turtles Hatching - Catherine - 09-29-2014 The time lapse photography makes them look comical. Hatching is quite the event. Don't you wish I could time lapse my snakes hatching. It would be the only way to see a whole hatching. Those little tiny turtles are actually going to be our local snapping turtles. http://www.ontarionature.org/protect/species/reptiles_and_amphibians/snapping_turtle.php http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_snapping_turtle They can live to be a very big turtle, for a fresh water species. |