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Terrapin ID - Uk (1 Viewer)
- Thread starter Chris.S
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honeym
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As a result of the Ninja Turtle craze. There are two (different subspecies) on my local patch (the London Wetland Centre) and even more on another reserve nearby.
Martin
Interesting, a connection with the Ninja Turtles never occurred to me. I didn't start seeing the sliders here in Reno before the late 90s–-so the chronology would seem to fit--and now there's not a suitable body of water anywhere around town that doesn't have at least a few. I didn't see the first definite evidence for breeding until 2011 but it's likely to have begun much earlier than that. So far I've only encountered the one subspecies, the red-eared slider, which may have been the only variety commercially available here when the craze started.
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Chris.S
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Cheers, looks correct to me.
I imagine these are where they are for the same reason. Must be new though, don't think anybody else has seen them there before.
Cheers.
Chris.
crazyfingers
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Ninja Turtle craze indeed.
I was at my local state park over the weekend and was taking photos of all of the piles of turtles hoping to ID a spotted turtle. What I did see, besides the native painted turtles, was a Red Eared Slider. Looking it up even the government documents make reference to its existence in Massachusetts being largely due to the Ninja Turtle pet craze.
I was at my local state park over the weekend and was taking photos of all of the piles of turtles hoping to ID a spotted turtle. What I did see, besides the native painted turtles, was a Red Eared Slider. Looking it up even the government documents make reference to its existence in Massachusetts being largely due to the Ninja Turtle pet craze.
