Sometimes the best bait for a turtle may be another turtle.That is not a management recommendation. It is a warning.Anyone who has trapped turtles for research has probably seen this. A turtle enters a trap, and soon other turtles are … Read More
Crab traps do not kill terrapins at random. In 2007, John Willson, Whit Gibbons, and I used 21 years of mark–recapture data from Kiawah Island to examine why a diamondback terrapin population was declining. The answer was visible not only … Read More
In 1983, J. Whitfield “Whit” Gibbons began a long-term mark-recapture study of terrapins living in the tidal creeks around Kiawah Island.The project is still going.Kristen Cecala and Cris Hagen, who now lead the work, recently captured a female terrapin at … Read More