| At the end of the study I would also like to create a statewide GIS layer for known stinkpot turtle occurrences. |
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| They are as pugnacious as stinkpot turtles and when threatened they quickly secrete a foul smelling liquid. |
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| There's everything from stinkpot turtles and spitting sea cucumbers to fish slime, cannibalism and much more. |
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| In 1982, a stinkpot was collected in Pico Pond, San Luis Obispo County, California. |
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| He is helped by local creatures like a stinkpot turtle, a spring peeper, a muskrat, a kingfisher and a mallard duck. |
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| Please keep all comments constructive to Ridgeback musk or stinkpot turtle husbandry methods and care. |
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| The stinkpot turtle gets its name from the foul smelling secretions it releases from musk glands under the border of the carapace. |
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| A third tank that has worked quite well is a ten gallon tank containing a stinkpot turtle, one small bluegill, two minnows, and three crayfish. |
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| While I still had Snipp and Snapp, I got Shim and Sham, two common musk turtles also known as stinkpot turtles. |
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| In this study, we hoped to determine whether or not stinkpot turtles, like other turtles, exhibit homing behavior. |
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| Our turtle of interest, Sternotherus odoratus, or the stinkpot turtle, is found throughout the midwest and eastern seaboard of the United States. |
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| The most evident characteristic of the stinkpot turtle is the presents of barbells on both the chin and throat. |
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| We were treated to black bears, river otters, sturgeon, horseshoe crabs, and stinkpot turtles. |
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| The research helps to identify priority areas for stinkpot turtle conservation, and to assess the needs of a turtle at risk. |
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| Weg is not the only one embracing what have often been viewed as diametrically opposed designs: the proverbial stinkpot versus the blow boat. |
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| It is hard to spot since the stinkpot is mainly nocturnal and spends most of its time burrowed in the mud. |
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| Rising water levels can also drown stinkpot eggs, impairing the stinkpot's ability to reproduce. |
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| In winter, the stinkpot usually hibernates in bottom mud, in well-oxygenated areas. |
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| Unlike other turtles that may spend time on land, the stinkpot essentially lives in water. |
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| The biologists are quite familiar with another section of the river, at Bristol Mines, where about 100 stinkpot turtles are well established. |
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| Wetland drainage has also been a major factor contributing to stinkpot turtle habitat decline. |
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| These sites are about Missouri turtles, including snapping turtles, alligator snapping turtles, stinkpot turtles, three-toed box turtles, and ornate box turtles. |
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| They reported that stinkpot turtles are not tolerant of brackish waters. |
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| Population ecology and feeding activity of the stinkpot turtle, Sternotherus odoratus Latreille, at Reelfoot Lake, Lake County, Tennessee. |
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| Antennae are attached to the back of the turtle's shell, which allows researchers to locate stinkpot basking areas, areas where food supply is sufficient, hibernation sites, and nesting areas. |
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| Natural shorelines not only provide habitat for stinkpot turtles, but help to minimize the amount of nutrients that enter the water, which in turn can be detrimental to fish. |
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| The stinkpot turtle is a highly aquatic and secretive turtle. |
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| To protect the stinkpot turtle, we need to learn more about it. |
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| Since it faithfully returns to the same areas year after year, and since it is unable to travel great distances, the stinkpot is especially vulnerable to changes in its habitat. |
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| Also known as the stinkpot because of the musky odour they secrete when disturbed, musk turtles are a threatened species. |
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| The site is a tool that demonstrates to regional residents and park visitors how a healthy shoreline can be beneficial to wildlife species such as stinkpot turtles and also promote a better quality of life in the region. |
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| When developing shoreline property set aside an area that is natural, and refrain from impacting aquatic vegetation found in the water adjacent to your property that provides critical habitat for stinkpot turtles. |
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| In Temiscaming, in southwestern Quebec, the Algonquin community of Kipawa-Eagle Village will be conducting a stinkpot inventory in 2008, funded by Environment Canada's Aboriginal Species at Risk Program. |
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| The stinkpot or Musk turtle, threatened in Canada. |
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| We have two Stinkpot terrapins called Sheldon and Tina Turtle that are very nosy, they like to stick their heads out of the water and watch you. |
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| The Kinosternid Stinkpot Turtle showed a weak substrate color effect. |
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