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Scientific name: Clemmys muhlenbergii
Status: Threatened and Similarity of Appearance
Photo credit: USFWS
Bog turtles are darkly colored with a bright yellow, orange or red blotch on each side of the head.
Youth Category - 2nd Place
Title of Photo: Painted Turtle
Subject: Painted Turtle
Photographer: Nicholas Eddy
Sea turtles are almost always submerged in water, and, therefore, have developed an anaerobic system of respiration. Although all sea turtles breathe air, under dire circumstances they may divert to anaerobic respiration for long periods of time. When surfacing to breathe, a sea turtle can quickly refill its lungs with a single explosive exhalation and rapid inhalation. Their large lungs have adapted to permit rapid exchange of oxygen and to avoid trapping gases during deep dives. However, turtles must emerge while breeding, given the extra level of activity.
Hawaiian Green Sea Turtle with a surprisingly clean shell at the drop-off in Honaunau. I am putting this one or the picture right after this in a monthly shootout. I can only use one. Preferences anyone?
This is Jack - he was a bad boy in his former yard - so we took him in. He may become our resident attack tortoise to guard our backyard.
While snorkeling on our first day, just an hour or so after we arrived, we saw a sea turtle cruising around near the jetty.
I couldn't believe it at first, but as the week progressed i got used to looking down into the water just outside our bungalow and seeing awesome creatures - sea turtles (two lived in the area regularly), cuttlefish, barracuda, blacktip reef sharks, bamboo shark, blue-spotted fantail stingrays, a huge eagle ray, not too mention the various strata of fish schools, with the smallest fish congregating right by the beach in a foot of water, to the slightly bigger bait fish the circled endlessly in the hundreds under our bungalows, to the bigger preadtor fish (mostly small trevally) that hung out under the boat dock at the end ofthe jetty in about 15 feet of water.
I got this shot at the Texas State Aquarium in Corpus Christi, TX. I spent a while walking around to the different viewing windows at the turtle enclosure, as the turtles were definitely on the move. I found it rather hard to get a nice crisp image, since they were in motion and I was shooting through thick glass, but I thought this one came out alright. It would be really interesting to see one of these closeup in the wild!
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