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This turtle was inexplicable found along the inside of the fence by Portable Building 6. The staff in PB2 rescued the turtle and returned it to its pond habitat.
Jaws is the oldest Galapagos tortoise in the Honolulu Zoo, Oahu. He is blind so I have to feed him directly. He loves to bathe in the warm sun.
Green Turtle (Caretta caretta) at the Kosgoda Turtle Hatchery, Sri Lanka. This is one of a number of resident turtles that have been rescued and, for various reasons, are unfit to return to the wild.
This is what I call a turtle's eye view. I have Lucky up on a bale of hay so that we can see the colors that another turtle would see. From up above Lucky is much more drab.
Lucky is a male "Three-toed-boxturtle." I was surprised to learn that the name Lucky is used a lot for naming turtles. I suppose that comes from the near-death situations that they are found. Except for a chunk of missing shell on his belly, Lucky was in pretty good shape when I took him in.