Sentences with phrase «box turtles m.r.i»

According to The Canadian Press, officials seized the turtles, which included diamondback terrapins, eastern box turtles and red - eared sliders.

The turtles included North American varieties such as eastern box turtles, red - eared sliders and diamondback terrapins — some of which sell for $ 800 each

Hunt for animal tracks on nature trails and explore the 7,000 - square - foot, glass - enclosed butterfly conservatory, also home to native creatures such as white quails and box turtles.

Their larger size and active behavior makes them highly desired by many insect - eaters, including bearded dragons and box turtles.

Penn - Plax — Reptology Tortoise Palace The Reptology Tortoise Palace is ideal for smaller species, including Russian and Greek Tortoises, and box turtles.

Permit requirements apply for the possession of some species such as venomous reptiles and Eastern Box turtles.

Measuring 48» x 30» x 12», the Tortoise Palace is ideal for smaller species including Russian and Greek Tortoises as well as Box Turtles.

In terms of our industry, however, box turtles as pets are on the wane — and that is a good thing.

My box turtles had children of their own.

Not that water turtles and box turtles don't have their fans, but both of these subsets have implicit issues that make them difficult pets.

While the decline can hardly be laid at the feet of the pet industry — freeway deaths more than exceed any culling of wild populations for the pet trade — box turtles are notoriously short - lived in captive situations.

In my opinion, box turtles are lovely and fascinating creatures, but generally a poor candidate for a household pet.

Most dogs will paw at box turtles and roll them around or carry them, but a few dogs will bite through the shell and kill the turtle.

``, a neighbor told me that box turtles would eat garden food like fresh tomatoes, lettuce and beans.

Discourage children and pets from playing with or harassing box turtles.

She owns or has owned, rescued and rehabilitated a variety of animals including box turtles, water turtles, tortoises, snakes, baby squirrels, ferrets, rabbits, guinea pigs, pot belly pigs, chickens, goats, domestic mice & rats, horses and ponies — along with countless kittens and puppies over the years.

Though they are cute and tempting to play with, Box Turtles can bite!

Box Turtles are unique and an important part of our ecosystem.

She also has eight cats, three dogs, numerous Cockatiels, Finches and Parakeets, Box Turtles and a Koi pond!

In addition to horses, chickens, goats, fish, cats, numerous small rodents, and of course dogs, she trained and handled animals for the Oregon Zoo's «Zoo to You» program, which included ferrets, parrots, snakes, box turtles, and rabbits.

If given the opportunity, most wild box turtles will attempt to hibernate, depending on the subspecies and its native locale.

She also manages the family zoo which consists of a Labrador retriever, a pit bull / Lab mix, 3 very tolerant cats, 4 box turtles, and a couple Sulcata tortoises.

Juvenile box turtles are often much more aquatic than adults.

Tracy teams with Welch for special needs turtle rehab and he often sends injured box turtles to her for long - term care.

Peacefully co-existing with the box turtles are seven boxers and a couple of dozen Koi in a sparkling pond.

During «high season» for turtles — the warm months when they're not hibernating — the ranch is literally crawling with rescued box turtles in various stages of recovery from trauma, injury, or sickness.

The Christmas - themed island is a partially - developed paradise full of slow - moving box turtles and fragrant lemon groves, waving cabbage palms and juicy pineapple oranges.

by Walter Chaw There's a shopping mall in Colorado called «Colorado Mills» that bubbles with the kind of nameless existential dread generally reserved for terrariums and introspective box turtles.

The research has homed in on everything from highly mobile mammals like black bears to slow - moving reptiles like box turtles.

In more recent years, Mark has been involved in an ongoing study of population genetics with box turtles, in collaboration with scientists at Princeton University, and has worked with the Princeton Neuroscience Institute to guide his students through the process of peer review for the online neuroscience journal Frontiers for Young Minds.

The argument that modern variation in eastern box turtles mirrors variation in fossil specimens of the same species does have some merit.

Eastern box turtles display a dizzying amount of variation, both in modern and fossil specimens.

Modern eastern box turtles display a dizzying amount of variation.

«Some sites have shells that are not only bigger than modern eastern box turtles but also very different,» she said.

«Just like we'd expect from evolution, there is a gradient of variation that carries through to modern box turtles.

She used eastern box turtles, Terrapene carolina — a species that comes in all kinds of shapes, sizes and colors — to make links between the rich variation in modern specimens and their fossil relatives from as far back as the Pleistocene, from about 2.6 million to about 11,700 years ago.

Vitek, who began the study as a master's student at the University of Texas at Austin, compared 435 shells of modern eastern box turtles and 57 shells of fossil specimens, analyzing changes in location, shape, size and sex.

It turns out that if you go back to fossils, there is even more diversity than you would be able to pick up just by studying today's box turtles.»

Creatures such as the small adhesive - footed geckos from Indonesia and Madagascar, colourful Malagasy frogs, and American box turtles are the «bread and butter» of reputable dealers, says Kamuran Tepedelen, of Bushmaster Reptiles in Boulder, Colorado.

Wood frogs and a few other animals such as box turtles do exactly the opposite.

It's Sunday afternoon and I have helped a group of second graders spot the queen of our leaf - cutter ant colony, held two fox snakes, acted as a perch for a bunch of newly hatched butterflies not quite ready to fly, and fed no less than three box turtles.

Recently, to keep things fresh for volunteers and visitors, the schedule was shuffled, and now aquatic animals are fed on Monday, fish on Tuesday, Blanding's turtles on Wednesday, water snakes on Thursday, box turtles on Friday, and endangered turtles on Saturday.

The Nature Museum has one male and two female Eastern Box turtles all of which are in their mid to late twenties.

Bronze and golden box turtles lurk in the shade and by the water.

The Eastern Box turtle is native to North America where it is found in open woodland and meadow edges and sometimes near pond and lake edges.

«There is lost variation in the eastern box turtle record.

In doing so, she was wading into a debate about eastern box turtle variation that has lasted more than 80 years, with some scientists suggesting that fossil and modern box turtles are all the same species, while others — pointing to a distinction in size or shape — hypothesizing that some fossils represented a separate, extinct species.

A box turtle in Oklahoma can be straw - colored while the same species in Florida is dark with yellow sunburst patterns.

If they look up the Eastern box turtle, students will discover that it is the state reptile of North Carolina.

I found a little box turtle on the road today, I stopped to help it across the street.