One reason that bog turtles go unnoticed is because they are a very small turtle that hides in sphagnum moss, sedges and mud for the vast majority of their lives. They are hard to find even when you know they are there and the time of year is right. That farmer was dumbstruck when I held up an adult male boggie after only 20 minutes of searching. But then, he had never had any reason to go slogging through the wet portions of his cow pasture either.
I am absolutely certain that there are countless small plots of land like that with colonies of bog turtles in them.

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