Tracking Terrapin Hatchlings to Wrack Line videos

Added: Sep 5, 2008

Duration: 1:30

Where do hatchlings go once they flee the nest? Using various methods of inference and observation, we have determine that some hatchling race to the wrack line for safety, others scramble further into the salt marsh grasses and still others opt to remain upland for at least the first winter of their "hidden" years. Let's follow some clues and some hachlings to test these hypotheses.