This is the first one Janzen has ever seen in over a decade of working with turtles and thousands of turtle eggs hatched. Gilbert and Sullivan appear to be in good health. At this point, Janzen said, he just wants to grow Gilbert and Sullivan as big as possible. It is no longer part of any experiments. Originally, it was part of an experiment with the way temperature during incubation effects the sex of turtles.
Cold temperatures tend to produce males and warm temperatures yield females.
Janzen said that with the temperature Gilbert and Sullivan was incubated at, though, it could turn out to be either. It is currently to soon to tell. When Gilbert and Sullivan grows older, its value will increase. Funds are tight. In the mean time, Gilbert and Sullivan is a department favorite.