{"672513":{"#nid":"672513","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Do Turtles Play?","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\/people\/joseph-mendelson\u0022\u003EJoe Mendelson\u003C\/a\u003E, adjunct professor in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ESchool of Biological Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E and director of research at \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/zooatlanta.org\u0022\u003EZoo Atlanta\u003C\/a\u003E, writes about a study currently underway at the zoo on play behavior in diamondback terrapins.\u0026nbsp;Play behavior is exactly the way someone would interpret it as a human \u2014 something that\u2019s fun and silly and sometimes is for a purpose, and sometimes the purpose seems to be simply fun. Students from Georgia Tech and Georgia State University are helping Mendelson in making these observations, and they\u0027re hoping to make the case soon that they\u0027ve documented purposeless play behavior in a turtle.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\/people\/joseph-mendelson\u0022\u003EJoe Mendelson\u003C\/a\u003E, adjunct professor in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ESchool of Biological Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E and director of research at \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/zooatlanta.org\u0022\u003EZoo Atlanta\u003C\/a\u003E, writes about a study currently underway at the zoo on play behavior in diamondback terrapins.\u0026nbsp;Play behavior is exactly the way someone would interpret it as a human \u2014 something that\u2019s fun and silly and sometimes is for a purpose, and sometimes the purpose seems to be simply fun. Students from Georgia Tech and Georgia State University are helping Mendelson in making these observations, and they\u0027re hoping to make the case soon that they\u0027ve documented purposeless play behavior in a turtle.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"34434","created_gmt":"2024-01-29 14:56:02","changed_gmt":"2024-01-29 14:56:02","author":"Renay San Miguel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"Zoo Atlanta","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/zooatlanta.org\/do-turtles-play\/","dateline":{"date":"2024-01-24T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2024-01-24T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"1275","name":"School of Biological Sciences"}],"categories":[{"id":"146","name":"Life Sciences and Biology"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"166882","name":"School of Biological Sciences"},{"id":"179276","name":"joe mendelson"},{"id":"6765","name":"zoo atlanta"},{"id":"193458","name":"play behavior"},{"id":"193459","name":"turtles"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}