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CONSERVATION.  EDUCATION.  COMMUNITY.

The femaleOrnate Box Turtle laid two eggs, earlier in the year,  The Naturalists moved them to a place where they could keep the humidity high and the temperature more constant.   After NN days one egg hatched, and the next day the second egg hatched 9/20 and 9 21].

Now with the hatchlings at 24 hours and 6 hours after breaking through the shell both seem rather exhausted and are staying inside the egg.

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