Sentences with phrase «box turtles in»

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.

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

Not exact matches

Paramount's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles reboot was one of August's surprise successes with $ 149.6 million in ticket sales, while The Walt Disney Company (DIS) scored the hit of the summer with Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy, which broke the opening - weekend box - office record for August on its way to grossing $ 258 million in the U.S. and more than $ 500 million worldwide within less than a month of its release.

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.

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

Some of the animals featured in the box are clownfish, humpback whale, white - bellied sea eagle, coral, giant clam, Blacktip reef shark, hawksbill turtle, and a prominent feature of THE SHARK!

For the tens of thousands of sea turtle eggs incubating in the sands of the northern Gulf of Mexico — and dangerously near the oil — it's come to this: Officials are planning to dig up the approximately 700 nests on Alabama and the Florida panhandle beaches, pack the eggs in Styrofoam boxes, and fly them to a facility in eastern Florida where they can mature.

Prescott's team sends the living turtles, often packed in banana boxes, to a sea turtle hospital in Quincy, Massachusetts, run by the New England Aquarium.

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.

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

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.

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 specieIn 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 speciein size or shape — hypothesizing that some fossils represented a separate, extinct species.

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.

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

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

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

Other highlights in this strand include: the World Premiere of Thierry Poiraud's DO N'T GROW UP, a stylish and inventive film about a group of teens on an unnamed island who wake up to find their youth facility eerily abandoned; the World Premiere of Jon Spira's affectionate documentary ELSTREE 1976 about the bit performers who appeared in George Lucas» box office behemoth Star Wars; GHOST THEATER, the latest film from director Hideo Nakata, the forerunner of J - horror; GREEN ROOM, Jeremy Saulnier's latest exercise in edge of the seat suspense, starring Patrick Stewart, Imogen Poots and Anton Yelchin; returning for the third year running, Sion Sono screens LOVE AND PEACE, his tale of punk rock and talking turtles; and the fantastically prolific Takashi Miike's riotous, unruly gangster vampire concoction YAKUZA APOCALYPSE.

In truth, the Boxtrolls are an underground cavern - dwelling community of quirky and lovable oddballs who wear recycled cardboard boxes the way turtles wear their shells.

Last year's Teenage Mutant Ninjas Turtles 2: Out of the Shadows made half the amount its predecessor pulled in at the global box office, with the series now looking likely to slink back into the stinky sewers from whence it came.

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.

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

Snapping turtles often more than double these smaller turtles in length and have a mass of 15 - 30 times that of the average eastern box turtle.

Prior to starting my adventure here I worked at Camden County Animal Shelter in the Feline ICU for approximately 2 years and I have 7 cats, 1 rabbit, a box turtle and and beta fish!

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.

Dr. Hackett grew up in Colorado surrounded by dogs, cats, bunnies, and a box turtle she rescued after it was run over by a tractor.

I'd let her out of the cardboard produce box to roam a bit in the cut grass, and I drew turtle pics of her to hang in my room.

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

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.

It used to be that the go - to land turtle pet in the United States was the box turtle.

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

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The box and wall - hung constructions resemble religious icons in their intimate allure and attention to detail, and the images commemorate such animals as horseshoe crabs, turtles, birds, zebras, and bison.

Susana Ortiz has an eye for striking compositions, with a shot of her turtle on a box atop the toilet seat and a probably - antique clock with two owls in attendance on the lid of the toilet's tank.

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