{"id":7821,"date":"2019-06-17T16:05:10","date_gmt":"2019-06-17T20:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/?p=7821"},"modified":"2026-02-23T15:51:48","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T20:51:48","slug":"gregory-bulte-uses-3d-printed-replicas-of-turtles-to-learn-about-their-mating-behaviour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/2019\/gregory-bulte-uses-3d-printed-replicas-of-turtles-to-learn-about-their-mating-behaviour\/","title":{"rendered":"Gr\u00e9gory Bult\u00e9 uses 3D-printed replicas of turtles to learn about their mating behaviour"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Gr\u00e9gory Bult\u00e9 uses 3D-printed replicas of turtles to learn about their mating behaviour\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p>Carleton University Biologist Gr\u00e9gory Bult\u00e9, is using 3D printing to answer a question that\u2019s been bugging him for more than a decade. Bult\u00e9 studies northern map turtles, whose females can grow to twice the length of males. He wondered whether males might be attracted to larger females, but the turtles\u2019 skittish nature\u2014and the fact that they mate on the floor of the lake\u2014made observation tricky.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read this story in full <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencemag.org\/news\/2018\/04\/here-s-what-happens-when-you-replace-toads-and-turtles-3d-printed-replicas-wild?fbclid=IwAR2jMDJ_822h026kVhvKULx-wOtvOC_WfyY-SD6GYmSZZzD1Lims727DT1g\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"240\" height=\"135\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/230\/frogs3-240x135.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7823\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/230\/frogs3-240x135.jpg 240w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/230\/frogs3-160x90.jpg 160w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/230\/frogs3-400x225.jpg 400w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/230\/frogs3-360x202.jpg 360w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/230\/frogs3.jpg 696w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carleton University Biologist Gr\u00e9gory Bult\u00e9, is using 3D printing to answer a question that\u2019s been bugging him for more than a decade. Bult\u00e9 studies northern map turtles, whose females can grow to twice the length of males. He wondered whether males might be attracted to larger females, but the turtles\u2019 skittish nature\u2014and the fact that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7824,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7821"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7821\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7830,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7821\/revisions\/7830"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}