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What kinda turtle is this??

Posted: Sat Sep 25, 2004 4:09 pm
by palmboy5

Posted: Sat Sep 25, 2004 4:14 pm
by Guest
EW IS IT URS?

Posted: Sat Sep 25, 2004 4:21 pm
by palmboy5
yeah some student found it and gave it to us... WTF IS IT?1

Posted: Sat Sep 25, 2004 4:35 pm
by philp
Could be a yellow-bellied slider but it's hard to tell from that pic. Definitely in the slider family, though. Some red-eared sliders have a yellow patch behind their eyes instead of the characteristic red.

Posted: Sat Sep 25, 2004 4:42 pm
by palmboy5
is a painted turtle a slider?

Posted: Sat Sep 25, 2004 4:43 pm
by DiGiTyDarKMaN
Looks like a Eastern Painted Turtle.

Posted: Sat Sep 25, 2004 4:44 pm
by palmboy5
yeah other forum said it is...

now.. next question.. wtf to do with it ^^

Posted: Sat Sep 25, 2004 4:47 pm
by DiGiTyDarKMaN
contact a zoologist lol



The Painted Turtle ( Chrysemys picta ) is a complex of four subspecies: the Eastern Painted Turtle ( C. p. picta ), the Midland Painted Turtle ( C. p. marginata ), the Southern Painted Turtle ( C. p. dorsalis ) and the Western Painted Turtle ( C. p. belli ). The subspecies differ in colour pattern and alignment of the scutes of the carapace.

Nova Scotia's Painted Turtles have characteristics of both the Eastern and Midland Painted Turtle.

In Canada, the Eastern Painted Turtle is found in mainland Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. In N. S., it is common to abundant in the southwestern mainland, becoming locally common or absent on the norteastern mainland. The range extends south to Alabama.

Size: for 46 adults measured in Kejimkujik National Park in southwestern Nova Scotia, the carapace length of males was 13.1 to 16.5 cm, and females 14.3 to 17.1 cm.

They inhabit vegetated ponds, lakes and streams, and seem to be most common where lily pads and pickerel weed grow.

They hibernate at the bottom of ponds.

Females migrate to sand or gravel beaches , roadbanks or cultivated fields during the afternoons, from early June to early July, to dig a nest and lay eggs.

Females lay between 6 and 11 eggs yearly (based on counts of 23 animals).

Hatchlings emerge from the nest between late September and the end of October. If the nest surface temperature becomes lower than the temperature at the bottom of the nest, they will overwinter and dig out the following spring.

They are generally active in day, but have been seen resting embedded like beach stones in a lake bottom in daytime, and also feeding at nightime.

They eat a variety of aquatic insects, their larvae or nymphs and other invertebrates, particularly snails, and small pieces of lily pads.

Posted: Sat Sep 25, 2004 5:24 pm
by Guest
I dare you to cut off its head.

Posted: Sat Sep 25, 2004 6:14 pm
by palmboy5
ill cut UR head off.

Posted: Sat Sep 25, 2004 8:07 pm
by Guest
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Anyways, if u ever cut off my head, please, first sneak up behind me, hit me in the head or something, and put a blindfold on me. the worst thing that could ever happen to me would be to see ur ugly face :|

Posted: Sat Sep 25, 2004 8:11 pm
by DiGiTyDarKMaN
I7Iz490N wrote:UR Upper Right
UR Underground Resistance (Detroit electro collective)
UR Unfinanced Requirement(s)
UR Unidirectional Ring
UR Unit Record
UR Universal Records (record label)
UR Universal Rectifier
UR Universidad Regiomontana (Monterrey, Mexico)
UR University of Regina
UR University of Richmond (Virginia)
UR University of Rochester
UR Unsatisfactory Report
UR Up (Stage) Right
UR Uptime Ratio
UR Uranium Registry
UR Uri (Swiss Canton)
UR Urinal (construction plans; plumbing)
UR User Range Accuracy (GPS)
UR User Representative
UR USSR East of 100 Degrees



Anyways, if u ever cut off my head, please, first sneak up behind me, hit me in the head or something, and put a blindfold on me. the worst thing that could ever happen to me would be to see ur ugly face :|
how could you forget the most important one!!!!

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Posted: Sat Sep 25, 2004 8:12 pm
by Guest
roflmao

Posted: Sat Sep 25, 2004 8:36 pm
by philp
I don't know. Doesn't look like an eastern painted turtle to me. I could be wrong, though.

http://museum.gov.ns.ca/mnh/nature/turtles/paint.htm

Posted: Sat Sep 25, 2004 8:41 pm
by DiGiTyDarKMaN
looks more like an easter painted then a yellow-bellied slider