Herpetofauna - One Life's List
Redeared Slider Current River near Eminence, Missouri. June 1972 |
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Behold the mighty Red-Ear! Dime-store turtle and colonizer of foreign waters. Tough and adaptable, cute as a button just hatched. I've seen them everywhere; the clean, cold waters of the Current River, the muddy, sludgy lower Meramec, storm sewers, roadside ditches, roads far from water. In my youth I kept them in plastic 'kiddie pools' for a number of years. Far too numerous in captivity and other places they shouldn't be, I prefer to see them on a log somewhere, basking in the sun over some river. I've seen them along the Rio Grande in south Texas, and their shells are very beautiful there. |
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