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Missouri, USA
This specimen was "dontated" to me from a family who had originally caught it in Missouri.
At the turtle farm on Grand Cayman they had big pools with giant turtles swimming in them. Some of the turtle pens opened onto a beach area that the turtles could climb up on. I think it was just too hot at the time of day that we were there and so the turtles were all piled up in the pools to keep cool.
Our turtle, Murphy, is still molting. The bits of shell that you can see curling up are called scutes.