{"id":91612,"date":"2023-05-15T09:11:30","date_gmt":"2023-05-15T13:11:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/?post_type=tribe_events&#038;eventDate=2024-03-10#038;p=83612"},"modified":"2024-03-06T13:05:55","modified_gmt":"2024-03-06T18:05:55","slug":"live-animal-feeding-snapping-turtle-2024-03-10","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/event\/live-animal-feeding-snapping-turtle-2024-03-10\/","title":{"rendered":"Live Animal Feeding \u2013 Snapping Turtle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Snapping-Turtle_NIK_6735_Nik.jpeg\" alt=\"Common snapping turtle with its brown neck extended, revealing a bumpy texture.\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Join us for a live feeding of the common snapping turtle in the Bottomland Hardwood Forest exhibit. The common snapping turtle is the largest of North Carolina&#8217;s freshwater turtles, and lives in ponds, streams and rivers. These turtles will eat almost anything \u2014 plants, small animals and even dead matter. We feed our turtle a diet of vegetable matter plus occasional whole prey items. Enjoy the live feeding and meet Living Collections staff.<\/p>\n<p><strong>This walk-up program is offered:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Sunday \u2014 11am<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Location:<\/strong>\u00a0Bottomland Hardwood Forest on the 2nd floor of the Nature Exploration Center.<\/p>\n<p><em>No registration required.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Join us for a live feeding of the common snapping turtle in the Bottomland Hardwood Forest exhibit. The common snapping turtle is the largest of North Carolina&#8217;s freshwater turtles, and lives in ponds, streams and rivers. These turtles will eat almost anything \u2014 plants, small animals and even dead matter. We feed our turtle a&#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/event\/live-animal-feeding-snapping-turtle-2024-03-10\/\">Read More ><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"tags":[],"tribe_events_cat":[3,4,5,13,248,8,247],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/91612"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/91612\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91612"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=91612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}