Diamondback Terrapin

(same individual I posted yesterday)

Headshot. This mama turtle was pretty chill. She didn't even fully retract when I approached, although she froze. So I backed up, but she stayed there for a few before scooting to the water.
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Diamondback Terrapin
An endangered species, this is the only estuarine turtle in North America. This is also their nesting season, and these turtles can be encountered walking across the paths to and from nesting sites at this preserve.
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@J_Exp_Biol

Switchable neural components in turtles. Perhaps not surprising but certainly extraordinary! The source paper:

"Responses of the in vitro turtle brain to visual and auditory stimuli during severe hypoxia", Ariel et al. 2023 https://doi.org/10.1242/jeb.244687

"North American pond turtles (Emydidae) are renowned for their ability to survive extreme hypoxia and anoxia, which enables several species to overwinter in ice-locked, anoxic freshwater ponds and bogs for months."

These qualities make turtles fantastic laboratory animals for neuroscience research:

"Large-scale mapping of cortical synaptic projections with extracellular electrode arrays", Shein-Idelson et al. 2017 https://www.nature.com/articles/nmeth.4393

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