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In an antiques store in Brussels. Looks about as happy as I feel about him or her being there. As he or she is such a huge specimen I suppose, and hope, that he or she had a fabulous life. Having seen Sea Turtles in the Indian Ocean being left to their turtlely devices it looks as though he is quite happy. I hope.
My grandparents gave me two turtles a while back. Now they've grown from around the size of half of my palm to bigger than my hand.
Spent our 4th day at Animal Kingdom. Saw tigers, hippos, rhinos, birds, reptiles, and got to go on a safari.
Young turtles are mostly carnivorous, eating snails, insects and small fish. As turtles mature they gradually switch over to vegetarian diet, dining on filamentous algae and aquatic vegetation. It is a common myth that turtles will wipe out a fish population when, in fact, they are an important part of aquatic ecosystems in Oklahoma in addition to being important an “natural” control of aquatic vegetation.
The Red-eared pond slider is almost exclusively aquatic. It rarely ventures out of the water except to lay its eggs or to migrate to a new body of water during droughts.