Sy Montgomery: Turtle Tales, Breeding, Conservation, and Illegal Hunting | Learning with Lowell 196

June 23, 2023

Sy Montgomery has been chased by an angry silverback gorilla in Rwanda, hunted by a tiger in India, and swam with piranhas, electric eels and pink dolphins in the Amazon. Her work has taken her from the cloud forest of Papua New Guinea (for a book on tree kangaroos) to the Altai Mountains of the Gobi (for another on snow leopards.) For THE SOUL OF AN OCTOPUS (a National Book Award finalist) she befriended octopuses at the New England aquarium and scuba dived and snorkeled with wild octopuses in Mexico and French Polynesia; next she drew on her scuba skills to cage dive with great white sharks. She lives in New Hampshire with her husband, the writer Howard Mansfield, and their border collie Thurber.

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Timestamps

00:00 Intro

00:50 Turtle show and tell

07:30 Peace in Turtle

13:40 Incubating Turtle eggs

17:10 Benefit of hatching in Fall vs Spring

20:35 Breeding turtles

23:35 Illegal Turtle hunting in america

26:30 Agency to call to stop illegal hunting

31:00 Rescue camp for turtles 

33:40 Unlimited funding plan

37:40 Turtle kidnapping and value of a turtle 

42:00 Turtle territory and population

51:30 Ageism

56:30 60s

58:30 Sy’s Father the General 

01:03:15 Work to make a book / Kindness 

01:10:10 Ancient turtles 

01:15:30 Hearing

01:16:30 Places Sy want to go to

01:20:20 Book details / teaser for new

01:22:25 Ways to stay up to date / octonation

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