Bonding Box Turtles
by Emmy Vickers
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Bonding Box Turtles
Artist
Emmy Vickers
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Photograph - Photography
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Bonding Box Turtles. The box turtles can live to be 100 years old. At the Smithsonian National Zoo in DC, these turtles are fed salad, earthworms, and crickets; rarely mealworms.
Box turtles are most famous for their hinged shell, which allows them to retract almost completely into their bony armor to hide from danger. This shell has great regenerative powers.
When frightened, box turtles retract their head, tail, and limbs into their shell and clamp it shut. They wait in this position until the perceived threat is gone. While juveniles have several predators, very few species can prey effectively on adults due to this defense technique.
There were a ton box turtles in this habitat. Fun to watch, especially those that were swimming. Emmy Vickers,
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May 15th, 2015
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