{"id":787,"date":"2010-06-29T19:22:41","date_gmt":"2010-06-29T23:22:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/novascotiaphotoalbum.com\/blog\/?p=787"},"modified":"2010-06-30T10:41:37","modified_gmt":"2010-06-30T14:41:37","slug":"snapping-turtle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novascotiaphotoalbum.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/snapping-turtle\/","title":{"rendered":"Snapping turtle street wise?"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_788\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-788\" style=\"width: 201px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/novascotiaphotoalbum.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/2010-06-24-snapping-turtle.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"788\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/novascotiaphotoalbum.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/snapping-turtle\/2010-06-24-snapping-turtle\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/novascotiaphotoalbum.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/2010-06-24-snapping-turtle.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"400,596\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Snapping turtle 2010-06-24\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Snapping turtle laying eggs by the side of the road, Upper Northfield, Lunenburg Co., June 24, 2010&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/novascotiaphotoalbum.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/2010-06-24-snapping-turtle.jpg\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-788\" title=\"Snapping turtle 2010-06-24\" src=\"https:\/\/novascotiaphotoalbum.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/2010-06-24-snapping-turtle-201x300.jpg\" alt=\"Snapping turtle laying eggs at roadside\" width=\"201\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/novascotiaphotoalbum.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/2010-06-24-snapping-turtle-201x300.jpg 201w, https:\/\/novascotiaphotoalbum.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/2010-06-24-snapping-turtle.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 201px) 100vw, 201px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-788\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Snapping turtle laying eggs by the side of the road, Upper Northfield, Lunenburg Co., June 24, 2010<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This cannot be a good survival strategy.<\/p>\n<p>Snapping turtles lay eggs in June and July uphill from a water source.\u00a0 This snapper has found some gravel right by the side of the road, a foot or two from the pavement.\u00a0 The water source, as you can see in the picture, is a human-excavated pond some distance away.<\/p>\n<p>I wonder if\u00a0 this snapping turtle has tuned into her ancestral memory.\u00a0 Perhaps, before the road was developed, her mother laid her eggs in a sandy bank here, and when my friend emerged from the egg, she scampered and tumbled down the hill to the embracing water in a natural stream or that once flowed quietly just below this very spot.<\/p>\n<p>Now she is laying her eggs in gravel that has been brought in to elevate and level out the road.\u00a0 If the eggs don&#8217;t dry out in the gravel and hot sun, or get squashed by a truck parking on top of them, her hatchlings will have to reach the artificial pond in the distance in order to survive and thrive.<\/p>\n<p>Trying circumstances, it seems to me, and not unsimilar to those facing many young members of a much more recent species on this planet, <em>homo sapiens<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This cannot be a good survival strategy. Snapping turtles lay eggs in June and July uphill from a water source.\u00a0 This snapper has found some gravel right by the side of the road, a foot or two from the pavement.\u00a0 The water source, as you can see in the picture, is a human-excavated pond some &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/novascotiaphotoalbum.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/snapping-turtle\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Snapping turtle street wise?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[255,71,303,95],"tags":[419,420,418,421],"class_list":["post-787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-lakes-and-rivers","category-nova-scotia-nature","category-wildlife","tag-laying-eggs","tag-road","tag-snapping-turtle","tag-upper-northfield"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Snapping turtle street wise? - Nova Scotia Photo Album Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/novascotiaphotoalbum.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/snapping-turtle\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Snapping turtle street wise? - Nova Scotia Photo Album Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"This cannot be a good survival strategy. 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