Baby Turtle Swimming in the Water by APlusDesign
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He's (or she's, not sure) hard to spot in here but if you look towards the left, the baby turtle is swimming in the water there. Rescued off the road and put near the pond so they could walk in and swim off.
Comments (2)
chrysaor
So again You narrated little Story in Pictures. Also this is very fine and satisfying End! But: "Respice finem", think of the End! (When its grownup with a Snap of 200 Pounds!?!) :/
APlusDesign
Thank you! And when it is grown up then they can work on the next generation of baby turtles! :D
There is actually some really large snapping turtles in the area which is nice. One of the native species and is one of the endangered status. They may be tough but still need us to help out to better their odds!
chrysaor
Thank You for Informations and the Explanation. Its interesting to see, how much You care and know about the Wildlife around!
Maybe we in Europe see this more critically, because the Species has been imported and released by Hobbyist mainly in Spain, France and Italy. The Hotspot is the River Tiber with its Tributaries, where they are reproducing naturally. Not in Balance with their new Environment and without natural Enemies for Regulation, they eat much a Pond empty and destroy Populations of rare Waterfowl and the much smaller Turtles here. Not to point to their ferocious Charakter, so there a Bites on Bathers, but no Fingers lost up to now. Meanwhile it is strictly forbidden to own them, import them or sell them in most of EU! But thanks to God its not the Alligator Snapper!!! ;)
APlusDesign
I know what you mean! Apparently there is a type of invasive snapping turtle in China too that is getting rid of their native species. Invasive species can be quite devastating. In my area there is an invasive turtle as well but not 'aggressively' invasive. The red eared sliders - they aren't native here thus classified as invasive but they seem to be co-existing peacefully enough with the native turtles that they haven't tried to get rid of them in a harsh way, but they are monitoring them to see if that changes. If it is a red eared slider nest they don't protect it since they aren't native but they do make sure the mother turtle gets back to the water ok without being run over (there is a road running through the area) since they aren't aggressive to the other native turtles.