Hello! Rebecca at the keyboard. I recently started
working with MCSS and the conservation centre and my first month of trapping
has been a success! So let me tell you what has been happening at the center. From
the beginning of April we have been getting a lot of new Terrapins. Our traps
captured a total of nine new turtles in the ponds around the Banyan Tree. It
has really been an exciting month at the wildlife center.
One of the new Terrapins we caught was a female we
called “Laora”, after taking some X-ray on her, we found out that she had one
egg alone inside of her. The egg was really big and perfectly formed. Our
theory is that she already laid the other eggs before she came inside the trap.
It is not normal for a turtle to produce only one big egg.
We also had a cute small Terrapin hatchling that was
caught in the trap. This was very special because we do not usually get just
small terrapins in our traps.
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| Rebby..the first hatchling caught in a trap! |
We called it “Rebby” and it was the cutest little
turtle ever. Another day, we caught three turtles in one trap!!
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| 3 in 1 !! |
One of them
must have really liked us, because it tried to climb back into the trap once we
were done taking her measurements.
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| The trap lover! |
Another exciting happening was the recapturedof terrapin
“Stumpy”. She was the first Terrapin to ever X-rayed here at the wildlife
centre, and one of the few who has been adopted here at Banyan Tree. She has
been captured two times now, and we are all happy to have seen her again.
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| Stumpy's made an appearance |
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| The team with Stumpy |
Strangely, neither we, nor the hotel staff or
guests, have found any terrapins randomly walking around the wetlands. We
wonder if it is because they are not moving much anymore, perhaps due to the
rain, or because they are becoming more aware of human presence…. Or maybe they
are plotting something special!!! We will keep watching over them either way ;)
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