{"id":12068,"date":"2022-02-09T15:08:21","date_gmt":"2022-02-09T20:08:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/?p=12068"},"modified":"2022-02-09T15:08:21","modified_gmt":"2022-02-09T20:08:21","slug":"greg-bulte-is-exposing-the-hidden-world-of-turtle-mating-behaviour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/2022\/greg-bulte-is-exposing-the-hidden-world-of-turtle-mating-behaviour\/","title":{"rendered":"Greg Bulte is Exposing the Hidden World of Turtle Mating Behaviour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If someone made a sex tape featuring turtles, would anyone watch?<\/p>\n<p>Turns out the answer is yes. Carleton Biology instructor and researcher\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/people\/gregory-bulte\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Gr\u00e9gory Bult\u00e9<\/a>\u00a0has watched hours of video of turtle mating behaviour\u2014all in the name of science.<\/p>\n<p>Bult\u00e9, who teaches ecology and evolutionary biology, has studied a group of wild northern map turtles at their hibernation spot at Lake Opinicon, about 130 km southwest of Ottawa, for close to 20 years, examining their behaviours over time. While he\u2019s been able to document and collect a great deal of data, one part of turtle life has remained a mystery: their reproductive habits.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/newsroom.carleton.ca\/story\/turtle-mating-behaviour\/\">more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If someone made a sex tape featuring turtles, would anyone watch? Turns out the answer is yes. Carleton Biology instructor and researcher\u00a0Gr\u00e9gory Bult\u00e9\u00a0has watched hours of video of turtle mating behaviour\u2014all in the name of science. Bult\u00e9, who teaches ecology and evolutionary biology, has studied a group of wild northern map turtles at their hibernation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Greg Bulte is Exposing the Hidden World of Turtle Mating Behaviour - Department of Biology<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"If someone made a sex tape featuring turtles, would anyone watch? 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