Dive into the extraordinary journeys of six tiny animals.
Of the six characters featured in Big Little Journeys, the painted turtle hatchling is the smallest – only the size of 10p.To film such a tiny animal the team worked with Dr Patrick Moldowan from the University of Toronto. He is part of a project that has been studying and tracking painted turtles in Algonquin Provincial Park for more than 50 years.
They discovered only 1% of hatchlings make it to adulthood – such is the danger that awaits them at every turn.How do you identify a painted turtle? ‘You truly can't know about the biology of these animals unless you study them through the entirety of their lifespan. The Algonquin Wildlife Research Station has studied here since 1972, in fact, half a century, and we still have turtles that started in the study that are alive with us today.’‘Painted turtles are bite sized for a lot of things. They’re timid and their shell is very soft when they've just hatched.
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