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RE: Welcome to TortoiseForum.org !
Hi from a new member
I'm Rosemary Lombard, an animal behaviorist/herpetologist, with an independent turtle cognition lab, Chelonian Connection, near Portland, Oregon. I've had turtles since 1969 and have been involved in research with them since 1979. Our group includes a female eastern box turtle (since 1971), male ornate box turtle, five offspring of above (didn't realize Terrapene carolina and T. ornata could do that!), female pancake tortoise (from 1973) and her six offspring, and a male Russian tortoise. Most of the turtles are rescues or hatched at the lab.
We've done talks, walks, and demos for museums, schools, scholars' organizations, literary readings, and city naturalist programs (the latter when I worked as a naturalist). The last two years we've done featured pancake tortoise demos and, this year, added slide talks at the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry's Reptile and Amphibian Show. I have a general interest book in preparation that tells the story of the turtle-human relationships and what we've learned about each other over the years. So far it's called Diode's Experiment: A Box Turtle Investigates the Human World. (Diode is the mother box turtle who was called "Grandma" the first time we saw her and the one whose "experiment" showing that she understood categories of objects got all of this research going.)
Hi from a new member
I'm Rosemary Lombard, an animal behaviorist/herpetologist, with an independent turtle cognition lab, Chelonian Connection, near Portland, Oregon. I've had turtles since 1969 and have been involved in research with them since 1979. Our group includes a female eastern box turtle (since 1971), male ornate box turtle, five offspring of above (didn't realize Terrapene carolina and T. ornata could do that!), female pancake tortoise (from 1973) and her six offspring, and a male Russian tortoise. Most of the turtles are rescues or hatched at the lab.
We've done talks, walks, and demos for museums, schools, scholars' organizations, literary readings, and city naturalist programs (the latter when I worked as a naturalist). The last two years we've done featured pancake tortoise demos and, this year, added slide talks at the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry's Reptile and Amphibian Show. I have a general interest book in preparation that tells the story of the turtle-human relationships and what we've learned about each other over the years. So far it's called Diode's Experiment: A Box Turtle Investigates the Human World. (Diode is the mother box turtle who was called "Grandma" the first time we saw her and the one whose "experiment" showing that she understood categories of objects got all of this research going.)
