TURTLES OF THE WORLD 03-06-20

TURTLES OF THE WORLD 03-06-20

Your name on that life for an idea only to her spring break tom benson with the tendency of ram is here with us this mornin with a special friend in fox eric's right side to armenia boxer is a male eastern but sterile.

He's moving this morning he is ready to go is he's always ready to go very, dean eldon.

I seen people at th tennessee special education programs. we provide a lot of opportunities to meet animals up close during the year the turtl rewriting more turtle programs and this is one of the really cool turtles that you'll be seeing more and few weeks is as warm up.

April is when they start moving around and people really love dr. have a lot of friends.

Fortunately and the advice that we give people can we get this question all time a their moving across the road tonight crossroad we say absolutely if it's safe to do so.

I always move them in the direction that they're going as they know their home range whic is fairly small, but these long- lived teachers could be roaming, running her back right 50 years now and so if you're fortunate to have these garden tortoises are eastern box turtles in your yard.

Just know that i'm in an adult -like this could be 50 or more years old whiles is pretty special thing to have them around eastern box turtles are the state reptile, tennessee, north carolina, and one thing that people probably don't know is on.

Fortunately there's a lot of people nowadays that are coming into the southeast in taking these turtles out of the wild and shipping them to support the illegal pet trade illegal food and traditional medicine trade in southeast asia, and so we've created new conservation program help save his grade.

That's great.

So thomas talk about the world of col.

Cryer is coming on the new exhibit that you guys are opening up next week.

Correct depth is not that what we know it's the year the turtles of what all the things that we hav written exhibit there's more than 30 species of turtles are on display.

Just in this one location and we got a youthful turtle nursery that has some of the most endangered turtle hatchlings in the world and so is love baby turtle.

This gave us an opportunity to bring some of our conservation behind-the- scenes right into a and show people all the care that these animals get and the role that susan lake with these are populations to make sure that these very beautiful turtles don't go extinct in the wild, then there's a fun interactive zone where there's a lot of for touchscreens and things that kids can do there's some giant turtle master kids can climb on the eggs look like they're hatching out of her leg.

My granddaughters were there the other day.

They absolutely love it and it just so enthralled by the beauty of these turtles have the baby turtles, especially so that's one part of it but also the turtle trail through to aquarium, but i will have these turtle trail maps available for guest to take in really slow down and look at the exhibits i through the buildings and see how many exhibits have turtles in really learn more about the habitats from around the world and the role that turtles play with their neighbors like fish and other animals that you see the aquarium time, the exhibit can be at this a permanent addition.

Sorry it's can be great spring break and have a spring break lands elsewhere.

Certainly will be there for the summer but to really spring break.

This can be a way things off because we also have the turtle odyssey 3-d at imax really have a real fun time learning more about some of our most beloved and favored creatures in the world turtles will thank you so much for bringing boxer here and coming this morning to talk about the turtle world and find more about turtle odyssey that the imac and more on turtles of for you and your family to visit during your spring break is the tennessee aquarium and find