{"id":8619,"date":"2020-01-17T10:10:17","date_gmt":"2020-01-17T15:10:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/?p=8619"},"modified":"2026-02-23T15:51:48","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T20:51:48","slug":"i-spy-on-turtles-to-learn-more-about-how-they-have-sex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/2020\/i-spy-on-turtles-to-learn-more-about-how-they-have-sex\/","title":{"rendered":"I spy on turtles to learn more about how they have sex"},"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                        I spy on turtles to learn more about how they have sex\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p>Dr. Gregory Bult\u00e9 uses hidden cameras to&nbsp;record the private lives and have gone as far as posting online some of the zesty bits. For this reason Dr. Bult\u00e9 calls himself a &#8220;Turtle Voyeur&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To read more about the work by Dr. Bult\u00e9 in his article on The conversation here: <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/i-spy-on-turtles-to-learn-more-about-how-they-have-sex-128001\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">I spy on turtles to learn more about how they have sex<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Also see a video clip below taken Dr. Bult\u00e9 where a male map turtle chooses his mate based on the size of of his potential mate.<\/p>\n\n\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Studying turtle&#039;s reproduction with sex dolls and gopros\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MagFMhLjelw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Gregory Bult\u00e9 uses hidden cameras to&nbsp;record the private lives and have gone as far as posting online some of the zesty bits. For this reason Dr. Bult\u00e9 calls himself a &#8220;Turtle Voyeur&#8221; To read more about the work by Dr. Bult\u00e9 in his article on The conversation here: I spy on turtles to learn [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8621,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8619","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\/8619","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=8619"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8619\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8951,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8619\/revisions\/8951"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}