Does Slow and Steady Win the Race?

This update was written by Working Landscapes and Seascapes Scholar Tom Akre and Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute Fellow Jonathan Drescher-Lehman.
A close-up photo of a wood turtle's face. The turtle has yellow eyes and black and yellow-orange mottled skin
A close-up photo of a wood turtles leg with large scales and long claws
A wood turtle withdrawing into its shell
The plastron, or belly, of a female wood turtle
A wood turtle hidden in a pile of dead leaves. The turtle has a GPS tracker attached to its shell.
A close-up photo of a wood turtle's carapace (shell) underwater