Red-eared Slider (Wild Animals by Papo)

In 1992 the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles were at the height of their popularity and like many young boys of my generation, I was obsessed! To the point where my vast toy collection wasn’t enough. I wanted a real turtle, and shockingly enough my mother obliged me. He was a red-eared slider (Trachemys scripta elegans), a sub-species of the pond slider native to the mid-western United States, […]

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Red-eared sliders or red-eared terrapins (Trachemys scripta elegans) at the Pool in Central Park. Also, just a bit of duckweed.

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