Look what I found on the trail — an Eastern Box Turtle! 🐢🍂 These amazing turtles can completely close their shells like a box when they’re scared — it’s how they got their name! Their beautiful camouflaged shells help them blend perfectly with the forest floor. 🌳 This one’s likely a male (red eyes are a good clue 👀), but the best way to tell is by checking underneath: males have a concave shell, while females have a flat one to make room for eggs. 🥚 Box turtles don’t have webbed feet like a
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Look what I found on the trail — an Eastern Box Turtle! 🐢🍂 These amazing turtles can completely close their shells like a box when they’re scared — it’s how they got their name! Their beautiful camouflaged shells help them blend perfectly with the forest floor. 🌳 This one’s likely a male (red eyes are a good clue 👀), but the best way to tell is by checking underneath: males have a concave shell, while females have a flat one to make room for eggs. 🥚 Box turtles don’t have webbed feet like a
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These are not the typical boxes you open up this time of year…they’re box turtles! 🎁 A box turtle is a type of turtle capable of completely sealing itself inside its shell. These turtles have hinges on their plastron, the bottom part of their shell, that allow them to lift the front half of the plastron up toward the carapace, or upper shell. This unique defense mechanism enables the turtle to hide safely when threatened. We have a variety of Asian box turtle species at our Turtle Survival Cent
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These are not the typical boxes you open up this time of year…they’re box turtles! 🎁 A box turtle is a type of turtle capable of completely sealing itself inside its shell. These turtles have hinges on their plastron, the bottom part of their shell, that allow them to lift the front half of the plastron up toward the carapace, or upper shell. This unique defense mechanism enables the turtle to hide safely when threatened. We have a variety of Asian box turtle species at our Turtle Survival Cent
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Box turtles are aptly named as they can completely close up their shell like a box | Ahmed Hasan
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Box turtles are aptly named as they can completely close up their shell like a box | Ahmed Hasan
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Meet the eastern box turtle! 🐢 They can be identified by their domed shell that has blotches of yellow, orange, brown, and black. 🐢 They are terrestrial, meaning they live predominantly on land. 🐢 They are called “box turtles” because they can completely close their lower shells and box themselves in. 🐢 Males have red eyes while females have brown or dark red eyes. 🐢 We think they are stunning, gorgeous, beautiful, and amazing. Learn more about box turtles and all freshwater turtles of Mass
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Meet the eastern box turtle! 🐢 They can be identified by their domed shell that has blotches of yellow, orange, brown, and black. 🐢 They are terrestrial, meaning they live predominantly on land. 🐢 They are called “box turtles” because they can completely close their lower shells and box themselves in. 🐢 Males have red eyes while females have brown or dark red eyes. 🐢 We think they are stunning, gorgeous, beautiful, and amazing. Learn more about box turtles and all freshwater turtles of Mass
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