{"id":1415,"date":"2016-08-01T14:25:34","date_gmt":"2016-08-01T19:25:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vetmed.illinois.edu\/wel\/?p=1415"},"modified":"2017-08-09T10:09:31","modified_gmt":"2017-08-09T15:09:31","slug":"turtle-teams-camping-adventure-at-forbes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vetmed.illinois.edu\/wel\/turtle-teams-camping-adventure-at-forbes\/","title":{"rendered":"Turtle Team’s camping adventure at Forbes!"},"content":{"rendered":"

This was our second time, ever, searching at Stephen A. Forbes State Recreation Area<\/a> in southern Illinois.<\/p>\n

This search site was so far away from the Wildlife Epidemiology Lab that we had to stay overnight near the site. This means that we got to camp after searching for Eastern Box Turtles and after labwork was completed.<\/p>\n

All-in-all we captured and sampled 82 turtles in three day<\/em>s. We also collected 3 turtle shells. It was five and a half hours of searching in total. The second day of searching was a record breaking day! Forty-three<\/strong>\u00a0live Eastern Box Turtles in one day is a record for Turtle Team in Illinois!! It was completed in two hours<\/em>. This was pretty exciting. We also caught the smallest Eastern Box Turtle that Turtle Team has ever seen on day three\u00a0[a photoshoot of the tiny turtle is at the end of the blog]<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/div>

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