please point me in the right direction...

[TVB]

Tortoise Takes 20 Mile Stroll:

http://wcbs880.com/water/watercooler_story_194093654.html

Deb, do your turtles know the way home? How about street crossing safety?

Betsy

[Melissa]

LOL...that sounds like Trudlo (http://www.registerguard.com/news/2005/06/11/d1.cr.tortoise.0611.html), although he didn't make it that far. Maybe they can go on tour together next time and Mikey can show him how it's done.

[johnfl68]

Well, you could try these child locators on them, but unless they go more than 30 meters, it will say they are in the same place:

http://childlocator.com/

John

[TVB]

We've discussed GPS for turtles previously (http://aota.net/forums/showthread.php?t=19225&page=2&pp=10&highlight=GPS )and it was determined it wouldn't work. Then again, this was a tortoise, not a water loving turtle. I'm still trying to figure out the logistics of crossing roads very slowly and not getting run over. Obviously, Mikey never encountered the New Jersey Turnpike.


Betsy
---John, short term memory problems or trying to sell something :dopey: ?

[johnfl68]

---John, short term memory problems or trying to sell something :dopey: ?

Hehehe - not trying to sell anything - maybe a memory problem - maybe a coincidence.

Actually I was for the RF ID Tags in the other thread. :confuz:

John

[Armand]

Cicero, IL... Having lived there for half a decade once upon a time and knowing how downhill it's gone I'd say that tortoise was really living dangerously or slumming. =)

Weird thing is that article never says specifically where (what town/suburb) the tortoise started from... shoddy journalism. Better article on it: Turtle trouble: Tortoise back home after daring escape (http://www.jg-tc.com/articles/2005/07/14/news/news003.txt)

Orland Park to Cicero... sheesh that is a heck of a journey for a tortoise. That's not even a straight shot really.

[Monty]

The sea turtles around here are endangered and are highly protected, so much so, we raise them in captivity and then turn them loose. Whenever they come back to nest, the turtle folks epoxy a miniature GPS and radio transmitter (very similiar to an EPIRB but on a different frequency) to track them back and forth to Mexico where they go to breed.
The turtles are also marked with dye and they can actually tell which batch they came from and when and where they were released. The turtle folks pick up the eggs mom turtle lays, hatches them out and releases the babies.

[johnfl68]

Satellite Tracking Sea Turtles

http://www.fieldtripearth.org/article.xml?id=769

[Deb]

Mine are too greedy to go that far. Each one (three times total) that has escaped the pond area has been found in the pool. They get out...they find freedom...they say "WOW! LOOK! A BIGGER BODY OF WATER!", then they dive back in for a chlorine bath :P

That Satellite equipment looks intriguing though a bit big for my lil guys lol.

With all of the turtles I've seen in the rescues.... cruising around the streets is not a safe bet by any stretch..... it's amazing as many make it as they do. Though the story just goes to show "Lost Turtle" signs do still work :)

Deb
- Hardest part is escaping the dogs