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 the sun. my mom wasn't very happy that I jumped over the fence and grabbed a turtle, but she took a picture before she made me put him back.
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| Snapping turtle at the BYU pond |
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