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discocarp
at Mon Aug 22 14:50:19 2005 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by discocarp ]
That's interesting. I grew up in this area and have *never* seen a chicken turtle. Softshells, snappers, red bellies, cooters, boxies, even gophers - tons. We used to have cooter parades at my parents house as a kid. Whenever the retention pond would dry out they'd all parade over to the lake, and back to the retention pond when the summer rains came back. I was always fascinated. This was what kindled my love of turtles I think.
I'm not disagreeing, just wondering out loud why it took me 30 years to see one. I guess they were just never around the places I was. Funny thing is, I only live about a mile from where I grew up. There is no water nearby though. Like I said in the first post, this guy must of had quite a trek to get here.
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