radical reptiles

This summer my friend gave me an eastern box turtle. You can tell she is a female because the bottom of her shell, called a carapace, is flat. Males have a curved carapace. One day I spent the afternoon making a garden for her to crawl around in. She likes to eat tomatoes, berries, worms and insects.  Another day, I went to the park. It was really lame, until I went over to the swamp area. I was looking around and all of the sudden I saw a rock move! It was actually a turtle sitting on the bank. So of course I grabbed it before it could get away! I took it over to the play ground to show my mom. I said guess what I caught? she said, a frog? no. a snake? no. Ok just show me! then I pulled out this huge turtle from behind my back! she was really surprise. This is likely a red ear slider that someone had as a pet then released into the wild.  A while back we went to the BYU botanical gardens. there is a little pond there full  of turtles basking on the rocks in t...

Ever since I was little, I have loved drawing. This summer I've had a lot of fun doing side walk chalk. Here are some of my favorite pictures I've done of Lizards: Eastern collard lizard eastern collared lizard and blunt nosed leopard lizard great basin collard lizard, in ink and colored pencil

Hi, I am Zachary. I am crazy about reptiles! I especially like lizards. I started liking them this summer when I caught 4 sage brush lizards. After that, I wanted to learn everything about reptiles. I'm making this blog to teach other people how radical reptiles are!!!!   These are the first lizards I caught at Red Ledges in Spanish Fork Utah