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The $25 Snapping Turtle...Sue's Photo & Description:
Traveling down highway 40B we saw something on the road. As we got closer we saw this snapping turtle. This is a very busy highway at times so we stopped and I got out of the car. another car was heading right for the turtle. To make this long story shorter...I took off my sweater and placed it over the turtle and picked it up. I took him across the road in the directing he was heading. No one told me that turtles stink...I mean really stink. Off to Walmart to get a new sweater...no good deed goes unpunished :) Yes, it was a big one and very heavy...that surprised me.
Almost stepped on this little fellow/gal as it was crossing my driveway.
It's about two inches from stem to stern.
For a turtle the circle of life begins in a hole .... here is mama turtle laying eggs along the Kiwa trail in the Ridgefield Wildlife Refuge.
Spotted this Turtle coming towards me on a road just infront of my house. Third Turtle I have seen in my life.
The carapace, or upper shell, of the Wood Turtle is brown, grayish-brown, or tan, with radiating straw-coloured lines on the individual plates, or scutes. The grooved, concentric growth rings on each scute form a flattened pyramid giving the shell a sculptured appearance. The plastron, or under shell, is yellow with a single black blotch in the corner of each scute. The head is shiny black, as are the upper parts of the legs and tail. The throat, the lower section of the neck, and the underside of the tail are a bright orange or brick red. The combination of sculptured carapace, yellow and black plastron, and orange throat and forelegs readily distinguish the Wood Turtle from the Painted Turtle and Snapping Turtle, the only other freshwater turtle species native to New Brunswick.
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A box turtle catches the last light of day, partly closed up, after being picked up and moved out of the road.
I was driving through the Sand Hills of Nebraska when I noticed a turtle crossing (ever so slowly) the dirt road with a big truck approaching from the other direction. I picked it up, to the great amusement of the truck driver, and moved it out of the road. The turtle seem to be indifferent to being moved out of harm's way, and neither thankful nor contrite.
The lower portion of a box turtle's shell (the plastron) is hinged so the turtle can tuck in its legs and head and then close the shell so that no soft tissues are accessible to predators such as foxes or coyotes. This turtle's shell is partially closed--not sufficiently open for walking, not sufficiently closed to provide protection against predators.
I found this poor turtle walking dejectedly between the rails of the train tracks. After I determined that he was not likely to pivot around and bite my fingers off, I picked him up and put him in a more hospitable location. I just hope it was the right side of the tracks..:)
Passing a pond on one of the trails of Mackinac Island, we saw this turtle sunning himself. Mackinac Island is located on Lake Huron, between the upper and lower peninsulas of Michigan, in the USA.
Title: Turtle
Location: Mabul Sipadan
Camera: C7070WZ
Lens: undefined
Settings: 1/800, f/5.6, ISO200
Housing: Ikelite Olympus C-7070 Housing
Strobes: 1 x Ikelite DS160
Originally appeared at: marek.wylon.com
Osman Hamdi Bey's "Turtle Trainer".This undated file picture shows "The Turtle Trainer", an enigmatic 1906 painting (This is made on tile but original one is include oil paint on wooden, paper on water colour and colour print technics)
by Ottoman artist Osman Hamdi Bey, fetched five trillion ($3.5 million ) Turkish lira by Suna and İnan Kıraç aware Pere museum
The Suna-Inan Kıraç Foundation bought famous Turkish artist Osman Hamdi Bey's "Kaplumbağa Terbiyecisi" (Turtle Trainer) picture for $3.5 million for the museum in December 2004.
The five turtles in this portrait symbolize a stubborn, resistant and slow changing society. Some even believe that they represent the five most difficult associates of Osman Hamdi, giving him heartburn. The turtle trainer, dressed in a red dervish robe and a turban, holding a ney (sufi flute) is Osman Hamdi, representing a patient intellectual that is coaching change. A change he hopes to teach primarily by blowing his ney and occasionally by using it to prod or reprimand the animals. Unfortunately, the turtles have no ears to hear the ney and with a thick protective shell they are also not bothered by his prodding. His efforts are futile. Osman Hamdi Bey's calls for westernization are met by deaf ears and much resistance by the establishment and the conservative segments.
Another photo of Turtle dressed up for Halloween as Raphael from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
Turtle is a big fan of the show. :D
The green turtle is a large, weighty sea turtle with a wide, smooth carapace, or shell. It inhabits tropical and subtropical coastal waters around the world and has been observed clambering onto land to sunbathe.
It is named not for the color of its shell, which is normally brown or olive depending on its habitat, but for the greenish color of its skin.
Green sea turtles are able to hold their breath for hours at a time. Because they are cold-blooded, the temperature of the water affects their ability to hold their breath. In colder water they can hold their breath for longer.
This little turtle was so curious and was literally biting at the lens port of my camera/housing.This also meant i could not get a good shot of him with my macro lens on the fly.