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How can turtles disappear so quickly??
dreher
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This isn't the first time this has happened to me. Like Allen Griggs I rescue box turtles crossing busy roads. Sometime I take them across the road, sometimes I take them home and release them in my backyard.
Yesterday I brought a box turtle home and placed it in my backyard. 10 minutes later I went out just to see if I could find the turtle. Nope. I'll bet I've done this 40 or 50 times over the years. In less than half an hour they are gone never to be seen again.
How can they disappear so completely, so quickly??
The outdoors so fascinates me!!
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I once watched a turtle crossing the bottom of a clear stream disappear. He just kind of sank into the mud while digging with all 4 legs. I was startled how fast he vanished.
They cover more ground than you would guess, over 100 feet in a couple of minutes.
I golf on a course that's on a lake. This time of the year they're all over the place!
Good for you for saving turtles. I have read that turtles are very territorial, if you move them more than 200 yards, they will spend the rest of their life trying to get back to the home turf.
Got a big snapper by my dock that tears the hell out any crab traps I put in the water. His head is about as big as a softball.
@allen griggs is CORRECT! Please don't relocate them. If they are crossing a road, take them across I'm the direction they are going, otherwise they will just turn around and cross anyways.
If you move them, more than likely the will die! 🥺
"Good for you for saving turtles. I have read that turtles are very territorial, if you move them more than 200 yards, they will spend the rest of their life trying to get back to the home turf."
I heard something similar. If you "help" a turtle across a busy road by moving it the wrong direction, you double the risk.
Well, I don't know if relocating a turtle will cause it more harm but I do think it has a better chance with me moving it than crossing four lanes of traffic on a busy hardroad.
camoflauge
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wiCSSIEUukk
It is a little-known fact that whenever they find a ship or plane previously lost in the Bermuda Triangle, they always find a live little green Woolworth turtle either at the helm or in the pilot's seat.
We have signs on our driveway.
That reminds me of a guy watching TV when he hears a noise by the front door. He opens the door and looks all around and sees no one. Then he happens to look down and spots a small turtle. He picks it up and tosses it out into the yard.
Three years later he is startled by a loud knock at the door. When he opens it he sees an angry, sweating turtle. The turtle glares at him and shouts " WHAT WAS THAT ALL ABOUT?"
They walk, obviously.
And fiery auto crashes
Some will die in hot pursuit
While sifting through my ashes
Some will fall in love with life
And drink it from a fountain
That is pouring like an avalanche
Coming down the mountain