#Red-eared Slider

[sherrylephotography]

My photography @sherrylephotography

Red-eared slider turtle

photo taken 2/24 posted 7/24

[the-devil-is-dead]

uh-oh ... I should have gotten started on the redesigns of Mikey, Raph and Donnie for my own universe, but I got distracted and drew Future! Leo instead 😭

also, why do they only have three fingers? 😕

[orofeaiel]

Duck Photobombing Red-Eared Slider

[sweet-slither-friend]

Juvenile Albino Red-Eared Slider

[meklarian]

Red-Eared Sliders Sweetwater Wetlands Park Tucson, Arizona, USA March, 2019

(more turtles here)

[sitting-on-me-bum]

A red-eared slider.

© Allan Hack / Flickr

[longingforrotkehlchen]

I didn't expect to see a turtle laying eggs near a busy path, but you're not one of the 100 most invasive species in the world when you give a f***.

Rotwangen-Schmuckschildkröte (red-eared slider) am Pampelsee, Vaihingen.

[helluvatimes]

Best Foot Forward

A Trachemys scripta elegans, commonly known as the Red-eared Slider, seemingly dancing atop a rock in the Gardens by the Bay. Photo credit: Eleanor Chua.

This was taken against turf in the shade with the exposure biased darker by a stop.

[aroacedaddytalksshit]

I know we all love the idea that Draxum collected turtle babies Raph, Mikey, and Donnie from around the globe than just bought Leo at a pet store…

But!

I propose an even funnier twist on the idea from my own real life experience:

Draxum goes into a pet store and surveys the options. There is not an animal in sight he finds worth mutating, let alone turtles to turn into his prime warriors. So he leaves the store but gets stopped in the parking lot by some random guy standing by a minivan. “You want a pet turtle?” he asks and of course Barry says yes. “My pet turtle had babies and I can’t keep them all. Plus it’s technically not legal to have ‘em as pets or at least sell them anyway. So he’s free to a good home.” No wonder there wasn’t one inside the store, he had picked the wrong spot in the human realm to shop. The guy holds up a small circular to-go tupperware with holes in the lid. Through the clear plastic, Draxum can see a small red-eared slider sitting in a centimetre of water.

“He’s perfect”

My family legitimately got our pet red-eared slider from some dude in the pet store parking lot after leaving the store with my little sister (5ish) upset she wasn’t getting a pet she liked (we had just picked up new hermit crabs for moi). We named him Cannonball and had him for 10ish years before he escaped his summer enclosure in our pond for the last time never to be seen again. He was quite the escape artist, so I have hopes that someone found him in the neighbourhood and took him to our local Public Gardens ❤️

[that-crazy-scorpio-man]

I may very well have already posted this.

[bubblegubbie]

Leo head cannons I thought of while researching red-eared sliders:

The turtles have poor hearing but we’ll developed eyesight and smell. So when Leo was growing up he associated the others by their smell and looks instead of what they sounded like. Also, he knows how to read lips exceptionally well instead of asking the others to repeat themselves. 

Also since sliders sensitive to touch and vibrations, he can tell which person is walking around and/or doing something since the vibrations. He can tell when someone is about to touch him and turns towards them instead to avoid contact.

At first he was always to the first one to initiate contact from lack of trust, but now w/ the other turtles he does it less often and allows them to, however just from habit he still is usually the one to initiate contact.

For Leo angst writers: Red-eared adults can go on for 1-2 months- almost 3, which is pushing- without eating. Younger turtles can barley go over a week. Babies can’t go over a week.

When Leo gets overwhelmed or upset he actually goes to somewhere alone

He bites his brothers to annoy when he’s irritated by them- him and raph have a problem with it /lh

[rabbitcruiser]

World Turtle Day

World Turtle Day is celebrated on May 23 of every year. The World Turtle Day promoted yearly since 2000 by American Tortoise Rescue which is to bring attention to increase knowledge of and respect for, turtles and tortoises, that inspire human action to help them survive and succeed.World Turtle Day is celebrated around the spheroid in a variation of ways, from dressing up as turtles also by wearing green summer dresses to saving turtles caught on roadways, to research projects. Turtle Day lesson plans and craft designs promote teaching about turtles in classrooms. World Turtle Day is also to celebrate the great reptiles with their place in the world, and this encourages people to take action to protect them, both the common pet turtle and the ever jeopardized sea turtle.

“World Turtle Day is an annual opportunity to reflect on the myriad of threats facing turtles and tortoises and what we can do to protect them.”

History of World Turtle Day

World Turtle Day was created by American Tortoise Rescue in 1990. The term “WORLD TURTLE DAY” is branded by Susan Tellem of Malibu, California American Tortoise Rescue is certified by state and federal companies as a nonprofit corporation to provide for the protection of all species of tortoise and turtle. Orphans that cannot affirm because of ill health remain in the care of American Tortoise Rescue for the balance of their lives. Chase’s Book of Annual Events, the day was created as an annual observance to help people to protect turtles and tortoises and to disappear their habitats globally. Susan Tellem and Marshall Thompson are the founders of the rescue American Tortoise Rescue defend the humane treatment of all animals, containing reptiles. Since 1990, ATR has placed about 3,000 tortoises and turtles in caring homes and also assist law enforcement when undersize and compromised turtles are impounded and provides helpful information which has referrals to persons with sick and abandoned turtles.

In 2013, For over 5,500 students, 160 free Turtle Day Lesson planned and teaching materials were sent out to classrooms. Lesson plans were provided by the Turtle and Tortoise Preservation Group, an organization that is open to all people interested in the welfare of chelonians.

How to Celebrate World Turtle Day

Celebrate the World Turtle Day around the spheroid in a contrast of ways, from dressing up as turtles by wearing green summer dresses to rescuing turtles caught on roadways, to research projects. They’re the astonishing creature, with positive grades making great pets and helping to preserve the eco-system in the waters they live in. Also if we live where snapping turtles haunt the waters, it’s probably a good idea that people know how to withdraw them and where to find them.

Source

[admiralgiggles]

This is a bale of turtles. I’ve also included the wide shot so you can see the turtle stacking. I’m learning all kinds of new terms. I wish they were sea turtles because then they’d be called a flotilla, which sounds so much cooler.

[reptiles-and-rainbows]

Tortoises at Tropicario in Helsinki, Finland.

[sweet-slither-friend]

Juvenile Albino Red-Eared Slider

[adam-trademark]

Fish and Turtles

(January 4, 2024)