#three toed box turtle

[naamahdarling]

Met a special little man today. An absolutely breathtaking three-toed box turtle who impressed me VERY much. He was so beautiful and so healthy. Very alert and squirmy. He did NOT belong in the road. I don't think he had been there long. People were being careful not to hit him, but nobody had stopped yet, so I circled back and let him hitch a ride a couple of blocks.

I couldn't tell which way he was crossing, he was just facing down the road, so I decided to bring him to the woods by my house. They're omnivorous and there's loads of insects, fish, snails, and plants there for him to forage. It's a lovely spot with few things that will bother him.

This species lives 50 up to 100 years and judging from his peak condition with zero marks on him anywhere, I want to say he was not quite fully mature. There's every chance I may see him again, or, even better, that he might outlive me. Wouldn't that be something else? That one tiny good deed could create a future longer than my own. I hope he survives to make babies. What a beautiful animal!

#tortoise #turtle #three toed box turtle #good little man #by me

[life-on-our-planet]

🐢🐾three-toed box turtle🐾🐢

#turtle #three toed box turtle #box turtle #americas #north america #reptilia #testudines #these do appear to be pet turtles.. #but this ''enclosure'' is so big i feel like they don't even know they're pets? ^^' so i'm lettin it slide. #request

[ronthafrog]

errm i found the turtle i think

#common box turtle #turtle #herpetology #herping #conservation #nature #wildlife photography #biology #wildlife #three toed box turtle

[gr33nguys]

This turtle friend let me get a peek at his beautiful orange arm spots! His shell shows lots of signs of wear and healed wounds, so I figure he's an older guy. Maybe a three toed box turtle? I'll have to check the back feet if I meet him again. He was put back right where I found him.

#turtle #hinge turtle #box turtle #animal #reptile #three toed box turtle

[eldritchgray]

The turtles are out where I live! I saw this little guy on my morning walk

I'm fairly certain it's a three toed box turtle

#turtle #nature #nature walk #three toed box turtle #box turtle #photography #wildlife photography #wildlife #reptile #reptblr

[deirochelyinae]

If you leave me alone for long enough I'll biblically inaccurate these boys

#inaccurated them into three toed box turtles #tmnt #tmnt 2012 #teenage mutant ninja turtles #rapheal #donatello #leonardo #michelangelo #microwave draws

[weheartstims]

Three-toed box turtle (turtle) with fruit, tapping, pulling, chewelry, shinies, and turtles for @pileofpawns!

🐢|🍓|🐢 🍓|🐢|🍓 🐢|🍓|🐢

#weheartstims #stimboard #three-toed box turtle #turtles #fruit #strawberries #strawberry #chew #chewing #biting #chewelry #hands #tapping #shiny #food #pulling

[picklewednesday]

They dont even look like red eared sliders????

#WHAT!!!@!!! #they look like generic three toed box turtles?????? #aughha

[stormy-nights-are-best]

They look like box turtles. Because of the head and shell shape. My immediate thought was they'd be a three-toed box turtle since they're plain colored with no spots or patterns anywhere, BUT

They obviously have more than three toes. And the plastron looks nothing like any kind of box turtle's.

New lead: MUSK TURTLES!!!

#ridiculously big head? check #weirdass ugly plastron? check #four toes? check #big black eyes? check #seems like everything checks out our favorite googly eyed shaped seventh graders are musk turtles #teenage mutant ninja turtles #mutant mayhem #tmnt mm #text post

[herpsandbirds]

Do you have any cool facts about Missouri wildlife?

I'd love to share something with my Midwestern friends, and thank you for always updating this blog!

I don't know if i have any Missouri animal facts per se... but I can share some of the state symbols with everyone.

We moved around a lot when we first came to the U.S. and we lived briefly in Kansas City. I have great memories of going to the Ozarks at Christmas time (near Lake of the Ozarks). I specifically remember following woodpeckers and deer around the forest in the snow.

SOME MISSOURI STATE SYMBOLS:

STATE BIRD: Eastern Bluebird (Sialia sialis), family Turdidae, order Passeriformes, found across much of the central and Eastern U.S., SE Canada, and NW Mexico

Changes in land use lead to drastic declines in Eastern Bluebirds after the early 1900s. They have recovered in many places, due to "bluebird trails", reestablishing appropriate habitat and nest box campaigns for public and private property.

Find out more: NestWatch | Eastern Bluebird - NestWatch

Blue birds are in the thrush family, Turdidae, along with American Robins.

They eat mainly worms, insects, and other small invertebrates (but also take berries for part of the year).

Bluebirds are cavity nesters, nesting in tree holes usually, but will readily take to properly constructed and placed nest boxes.

Males (pictured) are brighter blue, and females are a more muted and faded blue or bluish gray.

photograph by Keith Kennedy

STATE AQUATIC ANIMAL: American Paddlefish (Polyodon spathula), family Polyodontidae, order Acipenseriformes, found in various parts of the Mississippi River basin

This species is the only member of this family that still exists. They are most closely related to sturgeons. This order, Acipenseriformes, is considered one of the most evolutionarily primitive groups of ray finned fishes.

They do not have scales, and their skeleton is mostly cartilaginous.

They are filter feeders. Their heads and rostrums are covered with thousands of sensory receptors, which help them locate zooplankton swarms.

They are considered "vulnerable" due to overfishing, habitat degradation and destruction, and pollution.

photograph via: US Fish & Wildlife Service

STATE ENDANGERED ANIMAL: Eastern Hellbender (Cryptobranchus alleganiensis), family Cryptobranchidae, eastern United States

The largest salamander in the Americas, it grows to a total maximum length of up to 40 cm (15.7 in). 

Though nationally it is considered to be just "vulnerable", in some states (like Missouri), it is "endangered".

photograph by Mark Tegges

STATE REPTILE: Three-toed Box Turtle (Terrapene triunguis), family Emydidae, found in the South-central and Southeastern U.S.

This specie shas been considered to be a subspecies of the Eastern Box Turtle, T. carolina (and still is by some herpetologists).

These turtles are terrestrial, but are not closely related to tortoises. They are in the same family as aquatic sliders, pond turtles, cooters, map turtles, and painted turtles.

photograph by Noppadol Paothong

STATE FISH: Channel Catfish (Ictalurus punctatus), family Ictaluridae, order Siluriformes, found in freshwater habitats in the eastern and southern US, southern Canada, and northern Mexico

They are widely caught, and have been introduced into waterways in other parts of North America and around the world. (In some places they are considered an invasive species).

photograph via: Missouri Dept. of Conservation

photograph by Brian.gratwicke 

#Acipenseriformes #paddlefish #fish #ichthyology #box turtle turtle reptile #herpetology #bluebird #thrush #bird #ornithology #north america #hellbender #salamander #amphibian #animals #nature #catfish

[rebeccathenaturalist]

I was out for a walk in my parents' neighborhood the other day when I happened across this lovely three-toed box turtle (Terrapene triunguis). Box turtles are one of the things I've missed since moving to the PNW almost two decades ago, so it was lovely to get to see one of my favorite reptiles in the flesh after so long. This one looks like they've been in some scrapes over the years given the condition of the shell, but they looked to be in good health otherwise. Good luck, little buddy!

#turtle #box turtle #turtles #terrapins #reptiles #herps #herpetology #Testudines #vertebrates #animals #wildlife #native species

[getindumdums]

The Rise TMNT movie heights are

Raph- 6’ ?” -Alligator Snapping turtle

Leo- 5’ 5” -Red Eared Slider

Donnie - 5’ 3” (but 5’ 5” seems more accurate) - Spiny Softshell

Mikey - 4’ 7” - Ornate Box turtle

April -4’ 8”

Splinter- 3’

Draxum- 6’ 8”

Now, I’m not sure how tall Casey Jr is, he’s roughly Leo’s height, maybe a tad inches taller. But Future Leo was roughly a third taller than him. Leading to F!Leo possibly being around 7 feet tall. By this logic. F! Would be about the same height. F! Mikey would be 6 feet. And Future Raph would be around 8 feet. But Raph’s also an alligator snapping turtle and they grow SIGNIFICANTLY bigger than the other turtle species. Like average ninpo form of a scale difference. So that’s an easy 14 feet tall, but 20 to 25 or more would still be valid heights. But I think 50 feet before ninpo would be the max possibility. But if you’re writing that you might want to give him shrinking powers…

Anyway. Other tmnt heights/species I could gather include (might not be 100% accurate.):

1987 - are all 5’ 1” , I also heard 4’ 11”

Species: "testudinidae carolina", which is not a real species. Testudinidae is a tortoise family. Might be terrapene carolina, aka common box turtles.

2003 - all of the turtles are initially 5’ 2” before growing to 5’ 5”

Commonly fan accepted to be red eared slides.

In the Fast Forward arc I heard they’re this height.

Raph - 5’ 7”

Leo- 5’ 5”

Donnie- 5’ 6”

Mikey- 5’ 4”

2012 - diamond back terrapins/ common (Coahuilian? Three toed?) box turtles

Raph- 5’ 0”

Leo- 5’ 1”

Donnie- 5’ 6”

Mikey- 4’ 10”?

April- 5’ 1”

Thank you

@reshrub

@socks-not-shoes

@pumpkinpie59

#tmnt 2003 #rottmnt #tmnt #tmnt 2012 #tmnt 1987

[life-on-our-planet]

[rolls up to the ask box like it’s a drive-thru window] can I get uhhhhhh

Three-toed box turtle

thank you for choosing lifeonourplanet for your creature needs~

♡loop

#request #anonymous

[behodahlia]

More 2012 turtles redesigned into the ROTTMNT style! I tweaked it a bit, made them more colorful and tried to give them a bit of their own styles, without deviating TOO far from 2012. According to google, the 2012 boys are three-toed box turtles, so the different colorations are based on random pictures of three-toed box turtles I found online. I am not a biologist.

But I like them!!! :) This is probably the most cartoony I've ever tried to draw, and it was very fun! the Rise style is literally SO beautiful I could stare at it forever, so getting to draw it a bit made me happy.

Also short Raph supremacy <3 Closeups under the cut!

#my art #fanart #digital art #tmnt #tmnt 2012 #tmnt 2012 fanart #teenage mutant ninja turtles #teenage mutant ninja turtles 2012 #rottmnt #rise of the tmnt #rise of the teenage mutant ninja turtles #2012 donnie #2012 leo #2012 raph #2012 mikey #2012 tmnt

[groenendaze]

what do you think of conservation detection dogs?

love them! worked with them. finch is trained on three toed box turtle and ornate box turtle, nettle is started three toes too. this was for a project that i got a grant for but ended up not being able to complete due to COVID.

CD are very, very useful especially for my field specifically...most animals that we work this are very cryptic and hard to find - with box turtles, three-toes are usually woodland species so you can find them in some capacity by doing traverse walking surveys, but ornates (species of concern) are native to areas like this:

which is uhhhh.... not as easy to do walking surveys (they hurt).

with reptiles & amphibs, most of them have very good camouflage to avoid visual detection. humans are primarily visual! dogs are primarily olfactory, can smell multiple feet underground, and can usually lead us to places where our animals of interest live or frequent which is also very useful!

#asks

[theyartgremlin]

Reference for my “villain” Donatello!! Plus extra doodle for fun. The pink thing on the back of his neck and shoulders is a Kraang biomass, also yes his bo staff is now a scythe. I headcanon the 2012 bois as being three toed box turtles, it just clicks for me. Also like it is stated on the image this is the overly detailed version of the design, and I will be simplifying it for the comic drawing to make it easier. DKT gets his name from his goofed up looking teeth btw ;). Have a great day / night!

#2012 donnie #tmnt 2012 #tmnt au #teenage mutant ninja turtles 2012 #reference #Donnie Kraken Teeth #DKT #my art #my au art