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Published: 2016-05-14 02:07:10 +0000 UTC; Views: 1043; Favourites: 95; Downloads: 23
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A female Ornate Box Turtle. I found her walking up to my hawk, so I picked her up, got a few photos, then moved her into the woods, far from harm's way.
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Comments: 36
I luv turtles!!! X3 she looks like the ones I have
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I was really happy to have found her!
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Thank you for saving the turtle. It makes my wife very happy!
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I did my job!
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Awh, what a cutie
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My Sophomore science teacher had a pet box turtle. she was quite a character.
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It certainly was. she was a gorgeous turtle.
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Thank you very much!
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It's a good thing you got to that turtle when you did. When animals casually walk toward each other with no regard for the food chain, you're seconds away from a fable breaking out.
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Haha, she was well within reach of my bird. He had no clue what to do about her though. He probably just though it was a strange walking rock! I ended up finding a second turtle not long after that though! That one managed to find its way to one of our other birds. I found that one on it's back. I think that bird was a little more curious about the turtle!
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I would have thought the birds would know what turtles are. I've heard of some raptors dropping turtles from high up to crack them open. It might be a behavioral adaptation and not something that they have the instinct to do though.
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I would suspect most of our birds have never seen a turtle before, or at least have never had a close up experience with one. To my knowledge, its only a handful of species that do that whole dropping turtles from high up thing. I wish I had seen how the second turtle ended up on its back though
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It isn't completely intuitive, so it make sense that not all birds can do that.
Maybe after outracing a rabbit, she tried to beat a peregrine falcon. Since she was turned over, this fable must have been about *staying* humble.
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Haha, there needs to be a children's book about that now too!
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