Expelling the Egg

Almost exactly four years ago, I spent three very hot hours in the woods keeping company with a female box turtle in order to witness this:

https://video.wixstatic.com/video/fd8a36_798cbacad10842b38882422e721f7301/720p/mp4/file.mp4

The rest of the three hours looked like this, while I sweated and sat so still that spiders tried to anchor their webs on me.