Baby Diamondback Terrapin! Pics!

[kookykate328]

Ok good so since its almost gone now maybe he'll get hungry and start eating

 

[shadow rabbit10]

Most likely. If it is possible to keep him, do tell me.

 

[kookykate328]

Ok but I'm still not really sure how to get the permit and if he's too small would they even let me keep him? The school has ones just as small as him and they are aloud to have them though so I don't know.

 

[shadow rabbit10]

The school is only allowed to have them for the following reasons:
1. The eggs were protected by the school, so predators wouldn't eat them (for conservation purposes)
2. They have scientific, not pet, permit.
3. They are only keeping them until the spring when they have grown to a reasonable size, then they are being released into the wild again.
The only turtles our school keeps are ones that cannot be re-released into the wild. Some were injured, others were once kept as pets, but were confiscated, and in return now lack the knowledge to survive in the wild.
They told us about this in Project Terrapin.

 

[kookykate328]

Oh we'll I didn't learn about that yet. I'm a freshman and I'm in the care part of project terrapin but we haven't had that many meetings yet and I remember them saying that they released some of the babies but didn't they say that they gave some of them to other places that kept turtles too? And I remember seeing where they kept the eggs at sedge in that fenced in area. Do you know what happened to that after the hurricane? If there were any eggs or baby turtles there wouldn't they have gotten washed away?

 

[shadow rabbit10]

I'm also a freshman, I am in care and outreach! And also. I never thought about the eggs at Sedge Island... I hope they're ok... And yes, they do give some of their older turtles to other schools and education facilities. The hatchlings are not usually kept. I do have a bit of Terrapin knowledge prior to school because my 4-H club did a county project on them.

 

[kookykate328]

Oh. I assumed you weren't a freshman because you seemed to know more than me. And yea I hope Sedge is ok, it seemed like the whole island could've washed away.

 

[shadow rabbit10]

And the Sedge house, osprey repopulation building, that old guy's house.... Now that i think about it, the island is probably underwater. I only know a little more because I had prior knowledge. Don't worry, it's not that they're not telling you things.

 

[kookykate328]

Ok and I feel bad for the freshman next year. If sedge is underwater then they might not be able to go and that was fun so theyd miss out on that. Everything there could've got flooded or washed away and they might need to rebuild a lot of it. I wonder if they'd be done in time for the freshman to go next year.

 

[shadow rabbit10]

I know, that would suck for them. I'm sure they could find somewhere else to take them though if the island is that badly destroyed.