Would you believe another animal rescue?
I’m downloading my pictures for the day and the doorbell rings. It’s my neighbors kids. “Do you want this Turtle?”
“Sure, I guess.”
I don’t know Turtles. Well I take that back. I know what a Red Eared Slider is, and I know what a Snapping Turtle is.
When I look at one of my books (Field Guide To Reptiles And Amphibians, National Audubon Society) it kinda looks like a Gulf Coast Box Turtle, but then I don’t really know anything about Turtles.
So, can anyone help me out? What type of Turtle is this? What does it eat?
For tonight, I just placed it in my Butterfly Enclosure along with some water and a little thing that it can hide under.
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Gulf Coast Box Turtle
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3 comments
isaac - Box turtles are land turtles so a year round creek wouldn’t be necessary, I’d imagine. They’re also pretty easy to ID in that when they retract their head, a lid hinges shut over the head.June 6, 2010 – 3:40 pm
texdr - They said they saw it just up the street so I’m guessing it came from the woods behind my house. I released it this morning back into the woods. There’s lots of good habitat back there and if we could just get a bit more rain the creek would stay a bit more wet. Hope that is okay.June 6, 2010 – 3:00 pm
Patricia - If need to figure out if this is a wild animal or someone’s lost pet. If it is wild, please have the boys take you back to exactly where they found it, and release the animal. A wild turtle should stay in the wild. Removing just one from a population can be devastating. Also, there is no way you could accurately recreate his living environment. Going from the great outdoors into a box or aquarium is no life for a wild animal.June 6, 2010 – 10:25 am