Double double terrapin trouble: Turtle(s) Mary-Kate and Ashley are doing just great.
Staff are checking in often with the terrapin to make sure the terrapin seems happy and not in pain . “Animals with this rare condition don’t always survive very long or live a good quality of life,” reads the Center’s Facebook post. Bergman also toldthat if it seemed the turtles were in pain, “we would humanely euthanize them, but as far as we can tell, they’re happy little guys.”
Over the past couple weeks, the turtle have been experiencing a normal life of eating, swimming, and gaining weight. Once they are a little bigger, the terrapin caretakers plan on getting them into a CT scan to better understand their internal structure. And they need to grow a little more before vets can determine their sex.
Diamondback terrapin turtles are a threatened species in Massachusetts. Adult terrapins can grow up to 10 inches , weigh more than 2 pounds , and can live for decades. Mary-Kate and Ashley may not reach those markers, and probably won’t ever be released into the wild. “This is a mutation that would not survive in the wild,” terrapin population ecologist at Ohio University, Willem Roosenburg, toldBut right now, the two-headed turtle is thriving, and the only thing to do is to keep monitoring it as it lives and grows. “They’re eating really well,” Bergman toldHannah Seo is a science contributor at Popular Science. She started as an intern in 2020 and has since regularly contributed to both Popular Science’s website and quarterly magazine.
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