{"id":2389,"date":"2023-12-14T12:10:40","date_gmt":"2023-12-14T17:10:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eportfolios.macaulay.cuny.edu\/steamfest23\/?p=2389"},"modified":"2023-12-14T12:10:40","modified_gmt":"2023-12-14T17:10:40","slug":"vitamin-a-deficiency-in-captive-vs-wild-turtles-through-eyelid-observations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/steam\/2023\/12\/14\/vitamin-a-deficiency-in-captive-vs-wild-turtles-through-eyelid-observations\/","title":{"rendered":"Vitamin A Deficiency in Captive vs. Wild Turtles Through Eyelid Observations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By: Anastasiya Vroublevski, Joe Masri, Ilan Podolski, Avery O&#8217;Connor<br \/>We researched the health of red eared slider turtles in the captive environment of the Brooklyn College Lily pond and compared it to turtles in wild habitats on iNaturalist. We concluded that turtles in captive environments are healthier because typical commercial feed contains a sufficient amount of vitamin A. We reached our conclusion by observing the state of the turtles&#8217; eyelids, which reflects their overall health.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/eportfolios.macaulay.cuny.edu\/steamfest23\/index.php?gf-download=2023%2F12%2FTurtle-Presentation2.pdf&amp;form-id=4&amp;field-id=9&amp;hash=a00db15b3d372e9db479955e28d43e85a5aed62aef40cb5a2bb9752c41ba1dd1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">View Our Project<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Research Question: How do eyelid thickness and coloration correlate with vitamin A levels in wild vs. captive freshwater turtle populations?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":2390,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"portfolio_post_id":0,"portfolio_citation":"","portfolio_annotation":"","openlab_post_visibility":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5,89,21,68,84],"tags":[388,491,694,807,953],"class_list":["post-2389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-5","category-brooklyn","category-data","category-seminar-3-science-forward","category-zolkower-betina","tag-environment","tag-health","tag-observation","tag-research","tag-turtles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/steam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/steam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/steam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/steam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/steam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/steam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2389\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/steam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/steam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/steam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/steam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}