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Just found this little guy out by my egg and wanted to make sure it isn't a water turtle because there aren't any lakes very close. Anyone know if this is a tortoise? Don't kmow if I should drive him to a lake or put him further out back.
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Looks like a tortoise to me, but I'll ask some people I work with that would actually know what they are talking about.
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isn't that just a box turtle?
i would set him back down near wherever you got him. he got there by himself, so he isn't very far from home to begin withed egli avea del cul fatto trombetta -Dante -
Box turtle! Don't put him in the water!! Definitely a land turtle..
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yeah. plus, it it WERE a water turtle, and he's smart (or stupid) enough to survive on a deck, we should let nature take its course anyway :laugh:ed egli avea del cul fatto trombetta -Dante
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Thanks guys. Moved him further out back.
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Learned this recently with my 4 year old.
A Turtle lives in water and has flippers
A Tortoise lives on land and has Feet
A Terrapin looks like a Tortoise as it has feet but lives near water.
What you have looks like what people call a "Box Turtle" but is technically a Tortoise.
Leave it on land.
http://www.sandiegozoo.org/animalbytes/t-turtle.html -
From the head technician of our exotics service:
It is an juvenile eatsern box turtle, probobly 1-3 years old.
I would release it where he found it on a rainy day.
Just FYI.
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