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Gottee guy View Profile |
Eastern or ornate?
i’m not sure what it is. it isn’t a 3 toed or western for sure. either an eastern or ornate- i’m thinking ornate. it had lots of scars and at least 1 toe missing on each back foot.it has a weird scar on one of the back feet too. i don’t think it’s an eastern by the yellow mark on its head/face. i forgot to get a plastron shot.
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| 08/12/08 11:45am |
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Gottee guy View Profile |
Message To: Gottee guy In reference to Message Id: 1828246 Eastern or ornate?
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| 08/12/08 11:49am |
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Reptilefreak23 View Profile |
Message To: Gottee guy In reference to Message Id: 1828260 Eastern or ornate?
ps it so cool how you always are finding boxies... protect and and gaurd that area with your life! lol |
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| 08/12/08 12:21pm |
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RepticTay View Profile |
Message To: Gottee guy In reference to Message Id: 1828260 Eastern or ornate?
I would also say he has something wrong with one or two of his or her feet? they look sort of deformed. Depending where you live, he or she may be wild. |
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| 08/12/08 12:25pm |
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Reptilefreak23 View Profile |
Message To: RepticTay In reference to Message Id: 1828301 Eastern or ornate?
here is my ornate
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| 08/12/08 01:06pm |
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Reptilefreak23 View Profile |
Message To: Reptilefreak23 In reference to Message Id: 1828340 Eastern or ornate?
AND also correct me if im wrong... Gottee lives in florida, there are easterns there but westerns only go about as far east as New Orleans. |
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| 08/12/08 01:11pm |
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Reptilefreak23 View Profile |
Message To: Reptilefreak23 In reference to Message Id: 1828344 Eastern or ornate?
BUT DESERTS only live in west texas, the sonoran deserts, northern portions of Mexico, and south - central new mexico. So what would it be dooing in FLORIDA? lol thats my arguement against the statement that it is a ornate box turtle |
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| 08/12/08 01:17pm |
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Reptilefreak23 View Profile |
Message To: Reptilefreak23 In reference to Message Id: 1828351 Eastern or ornate?
lol sry |
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| 08/12/08 01:19pm |
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Gottee guy View Profile |
Message To: Reptilefreak23 In reference to Message Id: 1828353 Eastern or ornate?
yes,i live in the panhandle of florida. that’s how baffled i am. i am thinking it’s a cross of an ornate and eastern.it might have some desert blood in it,from an ancestor.probably was an offspring of an ornate and eastern,then moved farther east to florida. think about it, this turtle may be 50 years old for all we know. it could easily travel that far in 50 years. |
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| 08/12/08 04:28pm |
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Gottee guy View Profile |
Message To: Gottee guy In reference to Message Id: 1828581 Eastern or ornate?
i couldn’t get any really good shots because it was moving around too much. |
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| 08/12/08 04:33pm |
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Gottee guy View Profile |
Message To: Gottee guy In reference to Message Id: 1828589 Eastern or ornate?
Quote: ps it so cool how you always are finding boxies... protect and and gaurd that area with your life! lol
i already have been,and it’s easy! it’s so funny, the people here in florida can’t tell a 25 pound common snapper from a 2 ounce florida cooter. they just call every turtle or tort they see "a snappa". "yall no dem snappas will byte yer fingas off when it gits big". yeah, so i tell people that find box turtles that they’re very vicious snapping turtles and will bite your fingers off if you touch them. and it works! it’s hilarious! |
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| 08/12/08 11:17pm |
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Gottee guy View Profile |
Message To: Gottee guy In reference to Message Id: 1829069 Eastern or ornate?
i’ll try to see if any of the box turtles are on the banks of the stream right now.usually there’s one splashing in the mud. |
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| 08/13/08 09:49am |
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Reptilefreak23 View Profile |
Message To: Gottee guy In reference to Message Id: 1829341 Eastern or ornate?
and also, there are so few western box turtles... they dont really "expand" to other parts of of the country. If anything they are dropping in numbers. Well anyway... that is an awesome little forest you got there, good luck! |
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| 08/13/08 01:31pm |
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Gottee guy View Profile |
Message To: Reptilefreak23 In reference to Message Id: 1829619 Eastern or ornate?
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| 08/13/08 01:34pm |
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Reptilefreak23 View Profile |
Message To: Gottee guy In reference to Message Id: 1829623 Eastern or ornate?
Look at the pattern on each scut its not distinct lines it like a more colorful enlarged eastern pattern |
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| 08/13/08 01:47pm |
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Reptilefreak23 View Profile |
Message To: Reptilefreak23 In reference to Message Id: 1829645 Eastern or ornate?
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| 08/13/08 01:56pm |
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Gottee guy View Profile |
Message To: Reptilefreak23 In reference to Message Id: 1829653 Eastern or ornate?
well i guess it is an eastern. |
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| 08/13/08 03:17pm |
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Gottee guy View Profile |
Message To: Gottee guy In reference to Message Id: 1829771 Eastern or ornate?
ornate and desert box turtle. 4 subspecies of the eastern found in the US- 1.t. c. carolina 2.t. carolina 3.3 toed box turtle 4.gulf box turtle 5.florida box turtle and the 2 that aren’t are the yucatan and...i don ’t know the other one is this correct? |
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| 08/13/08 03:42pm |
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Reptilefreak23 View Profile |
Message To: Gottee guy In reference to Message Id: 1829803 Eastern or ornate?
good work soldier lol |
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| 08/13/08 11:05pm |
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Gottee guy View Profile |
Message To: Reptilefreak23 In reference to Message Id: 1830287 Eastern or ornate?
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| 08/15/08 02:58am |
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Amphibiandude View Profile |
Message To: Gottee guy In reference to Message Id: 1831510 Eastern or ornate?
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| 08/15/08 09:58am |
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Reptilefreak23 View Profile |
Message To: Amphibiandude In reference to Message Id: 1831672 Eastern or ornate?
every forum you have said that, ive already gone and saw your post! but next time it would be easier just to PM me so we dont hijack any threads |
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| 08/15/08 10:14am |
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Gottee guy View Profile |
Message To: Reptilefreak23 In reference to Message Id: 1831696 Eastern or ornate?
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| 08/15/08 01:26pm |
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Amphibiandude View Profile |
Message To: Gottee guy In reference to Message Id: 1831829 Eastern or ornate?
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| 08/16/08 10:38am |
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Reptilefreak23 View Profile |
Message To: Amphibiandude In reference to Message Id: 1832726 Eastern or ornate?
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| 08/16/08 10:54am |
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Gottee guy View Profile |
Message To: Reptilefreak23 In reference to Message Id: 1832744 Eastern or ornate?
what was it a 2nd gen. intergrade of bullfrog and leopard frog? |
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| 08/16/08 01:15pm |
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Reptilefreak23 View Profile |
Message To: Gottee guy In reference to Message Id: 1832851 Eastern or ornate?
(thats spanish for ’yes’) *chuckle chuckle* |
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| 08/16/08 07:45pm |
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Gottee guy View Profile |
Message To: Reptilefreak23 In reference to Message Id: 1833195 Eastern or ornate?
tu habla espanol? |
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| 08/16/08 09:16pm |
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Gottee guy View Profile |
Message To: Gottee guy In reference to Message Id: 1833301 Eastern or ornate?
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| 08/16/08 09:18pm |
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Reptilefreak23 View Profile |
Message To: Gottee guy In reference to Message Id: 1833302 Eastern or ornate?
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