OK! I get to be the first to say it! It's turtles all the way down!
eric · 18 May 2015
The one dude in the middle looks like he got a turtle tattoo on his lower shell.
DS · 18 May 2015
Now that is a really nice photograph.
Yardbird · 18 May 2015
Colorado's so purty, and if global warming gets REALLY bad, maybe we'll get a coastline. (Sorry Bob, that'd be the end of Texas.)
Matt Young · 18 May 2015
Now that is a really nice photograph.
Thanks! My wife made me crop it that way.
Also, I noticed that the Wikipedia article used my photograph of the lower shell of the western variant. I gave permission so long ago that I had almost forgotten. I am surprised that the other 3 variants do not have a "painted" shell, but are painted only on the under side of the top shell.
Mike Elzinga · 18 May 2015
Nice picture; something I am quite familiar with (I used to catch painteds and snappers a lot when I was a kid; mostly for temporary "pets," and then I let them go).
By the way, that Wikipedia link is very nice also
Marilyn · 18 May 2015
Wow that's stunning, they've picked a great camouflage, and they live in a lovely place.
Henry J · 18 May 2015
It's TESTUDINES all the way down!
(I would have said anapsids or diapsids, but I'm not sure which group the latest information puts turtles in)
https://me.yahoo.com/a/JxVN0eQFqtmgoY7wC1cZM44ET_iAanxHQmLgYgX_Zhn8#57cad · 18 May 2015
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Just Bob · 18 May 2015
OK! I get to be the first to say it! It's turtles all the way down!
eric · 18 May 2015
The one dude in the middle looks like he got a turtle tattoo on his lower shell.
DS · 18 May 2015
Now that is a really nice photograph.
Yardbird · 18 May 2015
Colorado's so purty, and if global warming gets REALLY bad, maybe we'll get a coastline. (Sorry Bob, that'd be the end of Texas.)
Matt Young · 18 May 2015
Mike Elzinga · 18 May 2015
Nice picture; something I am quite familiar with (I used to catch painteds and snappers a lot when I was a kid; mostly for temporary "pets," and then I let them go).
By the way, that Wikipedia link is very nice also
Marilyn · 18 May 2015
Wow that's stunning, they've picked a great camouflage, and they live in a lovely place.
Henry J · 18 May 2015
It's TESTUDINES all the way down!
(I would have said anapsids or diapsids, but I'm not sure which group the latest information puts turtles in)
https://me.yahoo.com/a/JxVN0eQFqtmgoY7wC1cZM44ET_iAanxHQmLgYgX_Zhn8#57cad · 18 May 2015
What a bunch of hardasses!
Glen Davidson
Yardbird · 18 May 2015
Paul Burnett · 19 May 2015
Reminds me of a picture I had here May 7, 2012: http://pandasthumb.org/archives/2012/05/trachemys-scrip.html - Red-Eared Sliders, in San Jose, CA.
Henry J · 21 May 2015
Those turtles three years ago were really sticking their necks out!
https://me.yahoo.com/a/yCTZpzcvy5VbV7c0LbBGC2F26tKI#9a762 · 31 May 2015
Rotate 90 degrees! or, even more bizarre, 180 degrees! You won't regret it.