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Brad 'Bones' Glorioso says: This is what most people call the Three-toed box turtle, a subspecies of the Eastern Box Turtle group. Sex can be.most easily determined in an adult by examining the Iris color. Bright orange to red is male...tan to brown is female. The plastron of males are slightly concave compared to females to aid in mounting the female during reproduction. This individual looks pretty old as her annuli, or growth rings, have worn to the point of not able to be discerned. But because they can live for many decades, perhaps over 100 years, it is hard to tell any precise age.
Shukkeien is a small stroll garden, worth an hour of your time in Hiroshima. Here is one of its turtles. Interestingly, Shukkeien means "shrunken scenery garden", so called because the park displays famous Chinese scenery in miniaturized form with a pond, small islands, bridges and various plants.
Taken at the Brooklyn Botanical Gardens Koi Pond. It was a lot of fun to watch these guys battle the fish for the food visitors were tossing into the water.
a turtle I ran across while biking one day at Northeast Park
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From a recent Session. Yes, a session. My new business is starting to keep me busy! So much fun too!
It had reconstructive surgery to transform it into the terrapin it always knew it was...actually im just adding descriptions to images i'd taken a while back and I guess i assumed it was a turtle back then! In the famous words of the singer who is on that perfume advert "what a fool" I am...
This is me - 5 minutes ago. I don't know why... had to take a self portrait for 365 project and this is how I felt after being out in the rain.
Just lucky I came across this turtle a few minutes before the mower came through. I moved him to safe ground and hope he stayed put until the mowing was finished.