Hyperthermia induced mortality of gravid Snapping Turtles, Chelydra serpentina, and eggs in a wood chip pile
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Two gravid female Snapping Turtles (Chelydra serpentina) were observed attempting to nest in a composting wood chip pile, on the shoreline of the west end of Coote's Paradise, Hamilton, Ontario, on 7-10 June 1999.Instead of laying eggs, both females buried themselves within the wood chip pile, and were found dead the following day.An autopsy revealed that both females were still gravid, and that the likely cause of death was hyperthermia and dehydration.Four clutches of eggs were also found in the wood chip pile after the cessation of nesting; one clutch was incubated in laboratory conditions but none of the eggs hatched.Subsequent dissection of all of the clutches revealed no development.Subsurface temperatures from the wood chip pile on 10 July 1999 ranged from 28 °C to 60 °C.On 8 August 2000, one clutch was found in the same wood chip pile, in which some eggs successfully hatched when incubated artificially.Artificial compost heaps near nesting sites may pose a risk for nesting turtles, through both adult mortality and reduced hatching success.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".