• Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net
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    1 month ago

    I found one of these guys on soil survey in Ontario. At first I thought it was a bottle filled with mud. He had this massive slug or something stuck to his shell. I was SOO pumped to find one

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      1 month ago

      Nice! I saw this guy while cruising down a logging road. I only ever see them in the water or on logs in lakes… I don’t dare take my camera in the boat. First one I’ve seen roaming out on the road like this, so I was pretty ecstatic.

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    1 month ago

    I read this more like a newspaper headline and I was really curious to see what Northern Ontario was going to look like after it was painted… “turtle” so this was kinda disappointing, but cool turtle anyway.

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      1 month ago

      I figured the title was going to confuse some people haha. I was going to just put “Painted Turtle,” but I felt like that would confuse people even more since there isn’t any turtle that is painted, but it is the actual species name of this particular turtle.

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        1 month ago

        I think almost everyone else on the planet except me would read this as intended. I just found my weird interpretation funny enough to be worth mentioning.