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发表于 2016-10-7 23:46:55 | 只看该作者 回帖奖励 |倒序浏览 |阅读模式
I was driving on a dirt road through the Sand Mountains of Nebraska when I saw some sort of chilling sight.
A turtle seemed to be crossing the road, ever so slowly, but a large pickup truck pulling a trailer full of ponies was coming the other technique. I had seen a compressed turtle two days ago, and the previous day I had encountered an ornate package turtle missing part of its spend, probably from a close knowledge with a truck tire. I personally felt compelled to do something.
My spouse and i sped up, pulled over near the turtle, leaped amazingly out and picked it up. The driver coming the other approach saw me stop and obtain out, and in a helpful method he stopped in the middle of the method to ask if I needed any support. When I told him that we had stopped to get the turtle straight, he seemed genuinely entertained; he waved and drove away from.
After depositing the turtle along the side of the road I sat along in front of it to get a good look. The low sun lighted a handsome face and placid countenance. I lectured them about the dangers of roads along with trucks, but it looked at my family impassively, neither contrite for its nonsense nor grateful for my treatment.
This ornate box turtle, Terrapene ornata, would be a female, for males have purple eyes and splashes of red-colored on the lower jaw and also front legs. Its seed covering was more than 6 ins long, so I guessed rrt had been at least 7 years old. The foot of the shell is lightweight, so the turtle kommer Flyers har ett nytt utseende nästa säsong 63 can tuck in their head, legs and trail and then pull up the underside with the shell until it shields all of the soft tissues. Foxes along with coyotes may pick up the shut shell but will not be able to pry it open, so they normally drop it in search of some thing user friendly.
Turtles were underfoot when dinosaurs were the largest herbivores and carnivores; I suspect a large number of turtles were turned to goo beneath the ft of the massive sauropods, hadrosaurs and stegosaurs. In contrast to most terrestrial species, the turtles survived the impact of the 000Thousand50010001 massive comet this slammed into the sea over Yucatan Peninsula 65 million years ago, triggering some sort of firestorm and filling the Tilmeld dig vores Ad Meter panel til at stemme om dette års adsPHOTOS  47 air with dust that blocked out of sun for months. Turtles moving into burrows or languishing in ponds runaway the firestorm, and their ability to eat dead plants and carrion and fast for long periods allowed them to persist as the dinosaurs died.
Lavish box turtles live in I landed on the idea of drawing an awesome fort in her hair Hopefully 964 the prairies from Texas to South Dakota, and historical accounts record lustrous populations in Nebraska and Arkansas. But these gentle animals are struggling now, and they are imperiled around South Dakota and Wyoming and protected in most other places except for Arizona and Louisiana. For a while, we were looking at collected and placed in the pet trade   it is a very eye-catching turtle, does not bite, carry illness or need to be walked twofold each day.
Collecting ornate common box turtles is now prohibited in most locations. Agriculture has transformed almost all of the prairie from turtle heaven to a rototilled passing zone. Today, one of the greatest sources of mortality of ornate container turtles is the ignominious death by vehicle tire.
Sex determination around turtles varies among species. Many species have genetically determined sexual development, but in the majority of type the sex is determined by heat range in the developing egg. The female digs a nest in the garden soil, deposits eggs and then backfills a nest with soil. In the event she chose a cool spot, and the eggs develop during 72 to 77 levels F, then all of the hatchlings is going to be male. If the eggs acquire at 84 F, they all are female. At intermediate temperature a mixture of males and females emerges in the nest. Studies of opulent box turtles frequently report that women of all ages outnumber males by Only two to 1.
I doubt that this turtle was going to heed my word of caution about roads and vans. After all, turtles have survived 65 million years without taking any assistance.
  
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