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<\/p>\nHi and welcome back to the blog! Last week Kayla and I had great trap success and spend lots of busy days with stacks of Blanding’s.<\/p>\n
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However, we did have one (major) hiccup:<\/p>\n
It was a nice Friday afternoon and I was excited to start fieldwork. I pulled my very first trap of the day that contained two Blanding\u2019s; one coincidentally named Friday. Today was already off to a great start. After examining my first turtle, I lost my baby probe. I searched the surrounding grass for quite a bit before I called in a backup search party. 20 minutes or so had gone by with no baby probe in sight. We decided to abandon hope and move to our next trapping location. I was absolutely devasted as my baby probe is one of the most useful tools I bring into the field. It makes oral examination effortless, along with its many practical uses. Completely distraught and ill-equipped, we continued to our next traps. As I was pulling up the next trap, I felt something oddly stiff in the sock of my waders. I quickly scurried to the shore to investigate. Long and behold, it was my precious baby probe. It\u2019s such a simple and underrated, yet essential tool for my exam. I could not imagine sampling the number of turtles I do in a day without this simple tool that makes it all so easy. Your greatest piece of equipment doesn\u2019t have to be something elaborate or fancy; some of the best tools for science, research, and medicine are the most simple and basic things.<\/p>\n
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Carley performing an oral exam on a Blanding’s turtle<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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