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North Florida - Wild Florida: Walking Turtles

Hedy Havel

Thu, Sep 1st 2011 Features

I walked a box turtle across 345 yesterday. It was a Florida box turtle, a variety of
the eastern box turtle. The eastern box turtle has yellow splotches on its shell.
The Florida variety has yellow streaks like lightning, across its shell.
I`ve been walking turtles across the road for at least 30 years. The sight of those plodding creatures, stuck on the yellow line, peering out of their shells, gets to me.
I`ve handled several different varieties - box, soft-shell, snappers, terrapins, and
gopher tortoises - to name a few.

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