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Our independent lab has been exploring turtle cognition from the behavioral side for 30 years. Giving the turtles behavioral enrichment, socialization, and as much power as practical results in their enthusiastic response to learning and surprising results. Photos, stories, updates on events and writing excerpts, including our book-in-progress, DIODE'S EXPERIMENT: A BOX TURTLE INVESTIGATES THE HUMAN WORLD.
Friday, May 25, 2012
The Radiated Tortoise
The radiated tortoise is too beautiful and, it's said, too delicious for its own good. Along with the resulting poaching for pets and for the upscale restaurant market, the rapid destruction of its forest habitat in south Madagascar points to a fast path toward extinction. Now it's one of the most critically endangered of turtle species.This short movie (URL below) tells the story of returning a cargo of confiscated radiated tortoises to their homeland and the education efforts in its region to return the tortoise to its traditionally protected status by the local population. It's nine minutes well spent.
http://www.turtlesurvival.org/blog/1-blog/183-film-highlights-growing-radiated-tortoise-crisis
http://www.turtlesurvival.org/
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