World Turtle News, 10/28/2016

Curious Number of Injured Turtle On The Rise In Australia

An increasing number of injured Southern Snake-neck turtles has been brought to the South West-based reptile rescue and rehabilitation centre in the past two months. All of the turtles suffer from shell fractures. Mrs Jess Berry runs the rescue centre said that this is pretty unusual as she only gets 5 turtles with shell fractures per year.

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From the Library…

Temperature-Dependent Sex Determination in Vertebrates by Nicole Valenzuela is a great book discussing how the sex of some reptiles is determined not by chromosones they inherit but by the temperature at which the incubation takes place.

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Photo from Lily Yeang.

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