{"id":5763,"date":"2023-05-26T17:52:43","date_gmt":"2023-05-26T22:52:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vetmed.illinois.edu\/wel\/?p=5763"},"modified":"2023-05-26T17:52:43","modified_gmt":"2023-05-26T22:52:43","slug":"dreamin-about-turtles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vetmed.illinois.edu\/wel\/dreamin-about-turtles\/","title":{"rendered":"Dreamin’ about Turtles"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n

What a week! This was a trap week, and we had some wild stuff happening. We caught plenty of turtles, and even a few Blanding’s that have never been caught before! We gave them ID’s and names right there in the field and released them. One of them became “Porkchop” – he’s definitely going to get bullied in turtle high school.

We have seen over 70 turtles and we’ve only been up here for 2 weeks – for those of you who don’t know, that is INSANE!!
I (Varun) even practiced taking blood from a snapping turtle for the first time – luckily, it went great! The little dude looked a lot like mini bowser (you can see i’ve proved it comparison below) – I know he looks like he wants to eat my finger but I swear he was nice:<\/p>\r\n

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Pulling traps is a heck of a time, because you never know what you’ll get! We found tons of crayfish, normal fish, and even frogs! Due to us being absolutely overrun with frogs, I will be giving you the best frogs we find each week!! Our first entry in the weekly frog\u2122 is this<\/span><\/span> wide-eyed weirdo that Marg found in a trap at Pine Dunes (P.S. i love him):<\/p>\r\n

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Lastly, we had a bunch of help up in Lake County on Friday – we sampled 11 turtles total and lab work was a breeze with everyone there!<\/p>\r\n

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What a week! This was a trap week, and we had some wild stuff happening. We caught plenty of turtles, and even a few Blanding’s that have never been caught before! We gave them ID’s and names right there in the field and released them. One of them became “Porkchop” – he’s definitely going to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1186,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vetmed.illinois.edu\/wel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vetmed.illinois.edu\/wel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vetmed.illinois.edu\/wel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vetmed.illinois.edu\/wel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1186"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vetmed.illinois.edu\/wel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5763"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vetmed.illinois.edu\/wel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5800,"href":"https:\/\/vetmed.illinois.edu\/wel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5763\/revisions\/5800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vetmed.illinois.edu\/wel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vetmed.illinois.edu\/wel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vetmed.illinois.edu\/wel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}