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July

Among the items I missed during my vacation last week was this: “A runway at John F. Kennedy International Airport was shut down briefly Wednesday morning after at least 78 turtles emerged from a nearby bay and crawled onto the tarmac.”

The herd(?) of turtles on July 8 was said to consist of females looking for a place to lay their eggs.

A group of 78 diamondback terrapin turtles, each weighing two to three pounds and measuring about nine inches long, spent about 35 minutes on the runway before they were removed via pickup truck. The turtles appear to be a group of females who are getting ready to lay eggs, and were looking for a place to nest en masse.

Here’s more info about the creatures.

This entry was posted on Monday, July 13th, 2009 at 11:40 am by Mike Risinit.
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