‘This is the best possible outcome for the twin turtles,’ the Southwest Virginia Wildlife Center of Roanoke said of the hatchlings’ operation
NEED TO KNOW
- Two eastern Box turtles were born as conjoined twins at the Southwest Virginia Wildlife Center of Roanoke
- The wildlife organization was assisting with the hatching of three eggs laid by their rescue turtle patients when they noticed that one of them was unlike the others
- The twin turtles were born with a “vascularized tissue connecting them” at the bottom of their shells
Two is better than one!
Two eastern box turtles were born as conjoined twins at the Southwest Virginia Wildlife Center of Roanoke, where the reptiles also underwent an operation hours after birth to be surgically separated.
The animal rescue detailed the rare occurrence in a Sept. 13 Facebook post, writing that they were assisting with the hatching of three eggs laid by their rescue turtle patients when they noticed that one of them was unlike the others…