He said he thinks this may be the result of two distinct nervous systems. She checked on the turtle eggs every day to watch the progress of pipping, when the turtle starts to break through its shell, and hatching, when the turtle actually leaves the egg. When Solberg checked on the eggs Friday night, Aug. 23, she noticed Gilbert and Sullivan. I checked to see if they were alive. I knew they were both fully developed.
Siamese turtles are incredibly rare and very valuable.
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.