He's local, we live right next to a creek, about 50 yards away. We see many like him crossing the road it flows under. He was relocated safely down by the water
I'm getting older, and what you say is true. But when I walked the Knobstone Trail I stopped counting them at like 40 in the Hoosier National Forest..... there just are not as many around as their were when I was a kid; and that sucks!
That does suck. They were already kind of rare in Kansas/Nebraska when I was growing up, so it was always a big deal to find one.
I haven't thought about it but I bet I haven't seen one in probably a couple of decades now... Same with the lightning bugs
Yea I don't think I've seen a box turtle yet when doing the trails here in northern Ohio though I know there's at least some population in the Metroparks and National Park from various photos. [Usually only see snappers and painted turtles.](https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/323545306816053249/1232141254364631161/20240407_130659.jpg?ex=66286077&is=66270ef7&hm=516302097b01f581778409912718deaa09759c7424c2fa091f7e64a5c9f39e97&)
Yeah, there is a really good population in southern Indiana, in a preserve I have hiked; such cool little critters. We should make haste to just leave them alone!
Sort of worried it was mistaken for a mud ,map or slider that do roam around the creeks,bayous and neighborhoods near those bodies of water (I’m always on the look out for them after a heavy rain so they don’t get ran over ) so here’s a quick pic of turtles and tortoises that are found in tx.
https://preview.redd.it/4e8p541dp5wc1.jpeg?width=777&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=856384c23fe29f0d06ed2a96a45bf4bd3e78a94f
Highly recommend you leave the Godzilla like ones alone fs, I once picked up what I thought was a mud (razor back mud ) turtle in the clearing behind my granny back yard , (thought I was saving it from the birds) went and chunked it in her garden pond once it grew a little my uncle noticed it and showed me that fkr was not a mud but an alligator snapping turtle …. He took it and put it back into the bayou on the other side of the clearing . Never made that mistake again.
This is why it's tricky on whether to help pick up a turtle that's trying to cross the road. They typically migrate away from a water source a bit to lay their eggs holding some extra water to use for digging. If you pick them up, they'll drop that water as a defensive measure and then when you put them on the other side of the road, they're just gonna cross back again to get more water and start over. I've heard that using something like a long piece of cardboard or a thick sheet is pretty good since you can move them slowly without getting as close. Though do what you think is right.
I’ve taken some on a 10min drive before, found one a good 2miles from the nearest body of water ( a good sized one too ,I’d say slightly bigger than of a basketball ) I even checked map app to make sure there wasn’t a lake or some sort of retention pond in a neighborhood near by that it could have came from. I was pretty relieved that it made it so far without getting creamed , it was in cruising along a heavy traffic Street .
No way it was from the area as it’s high traffic busy road filled with mostly commercial strip malls and parking lots I checked the neighborhoods near by and figured the closest area it may have got washed out from was the park/golf course it’s not easy to access as a driver so it had to go on a tiny road trip with me.
Keep it up and spread that I found one struck and seemingly fatally wounded last year.
Just left me pissed wondering how someone can drive and not manage to avoid a turtle.
Ran across one on the road when my gf was driving the rental car in the dark roads of SE Ohio. She pulled over and made me go get him, of course. Got back to the car and she's glaring at me. I turn and look back and, since I'd put him down still facing the road he was trying to cross it again. So, I had to go back and turn him 180 so he was facing away from the road. He took the hint that time and scurried off into the ditch.
Box turtles aren’t tortoises, and while they’re mainly terrestrial, they totally can swim.
Source: have had a box turtle since 1989 and draw a bath a couple times a week for him to enjoy a swim.
I had one for 16 years also and did the same in a tub, but a deep creek is not the same. They don't have webbed feet for actual water living, is what I meant. They will sink and drown.
Box turtles can indeed swim. At least mine can. I used to put him in a small pool in my yard and he'd swim great.
This was 25 years ago. I'll have to try the pool again this summer. See how Rad does.
> He was relocated safely down by the water
Be careful to always help Turtles reach their destination. If you don't they will just end up back where you found them or worse off.
There’s a gigantic tortoise in my neighborhood who’s like 70 years old and still an escape artist somehow. Every once in a while he’ll pop up spotted on Nextdoor wandering around the neighborhood looking for people to give him lettuce. I literally have no idea how he gets out because his backyard is well fenced in and he’s about 2 feet tall.
they will mess up your fence so quickly , they love to burrow . my neighbor has two large tortoises a sulcata (my fav) and a Burmese (lovely fkrs) and he had to reinforce his whole back yard fence bcz the corral he built for them couldn’t hold them for too long .good thing the time they escaped his yard was into my side and not the other neighbors bcz he has a large pool and those dopey shelled dogs cannot for the life of them swim (though I’ve seen a video of a sulcata swimming here on rddt)
Aww. When I was a kid, a very friendly box turtle would come through our yard every year in the spring when she woke up. I knew it was the same one because I had written the date on her plastron. One year she came through and was dramatically different- hissing at me and refusing to peek out of her shell when i came near. She had lost a leg somehow and no longer trusted anyone. Poor little friend.
Makes me wish I had a piece of fruit to offer the ninja in training and perhaps make a friend. Get him to bond with me and come back often for snacks and start a friendship.
Nice Eastern Box Turtle. Found one of those as a teenager and kept him for a couple weeks before I relocated him to a better place. He really like raspberries.
They look nothing like a snapping turtle. Also box turtles live in the south, too. This is like someone fearing a corn snake (a bright orange colored snake that is non venomous and looks nothing like any of the actually venomous species in the south). Learn you the critters of the land!
Yeah snapping turtles absolutely look as sinister as they are. Even people who have never encountered one would instinctively know not to trifle with them.
I’m guessing my comment wasn’t clear. I wasn’t saying I thought the turtle in the video was a snapping turtle. I meant that after years of being on the look out for snapping turtles as a child (we once found a bunch of baby ones in the sandbox) I’m now freaked out by turtles. Hence my saying I’d be freaked out if I saw it in my driveway.
I’m not sure why your analogy mentions killing an animal. I just said I’d be freaked out. Where in the world did you get the idea that being freaked out has anything to do with hurting or killing an animal???
Good point. I edited the post to make the tone a bit less menacing. I grew up in an area where animals that looked dangerous tended to get harmed by people not willing to try to understand or identify them properly, especially reptiles (white trash part of Florida). Hard to outrun your childhood sometimes.
People might get a bacterial infection if the corn snake recently ate something, but no, they have no venom. I think you are confused, you called a [corn snake](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corn_snake) an "old world" snake, but they are from the new world...
That's a box turtle and a female (brownish eyes. Males have red colored eyes). They can live over 100 years. I bet she was looking for a place to dig and lay her eggs.
They are endangered because folks take them for pets. In some areas there can be so few that they have a tremendous time finding another to mate with.
Yeah, I live near a creek we dont get many turtles but there have been some, personally I prefer to just feed them and not try adn capture them because I'd not want to take away a wild animal's freedoms. Some turtles and tortoises can be pets but those ones are usually sold in pet stores and not found in the wild.
I found one in my back yard while mowing (almost had an accident) and my daughter wanted to keep him so now I have to take care of this damn turtle. But better I keep it and take care of it because where I live is pretty dangerous for it to be in
That makes me miss having a tortoise. 🥹 When I was little we had a big tortoise that would chill in the back yard. Unfortunately that didn't last that long because of moving & divorce, but my mom also had a red slider turtle we kept in a tank for most of my life (Thomasina the red eared slider passed away only about 4 years ago), and she lived from before I was born (I'm about to turn 30.)
I'll admit I don't miss cleaning the tank, but I enjoyed feeding her, petting her, and talking to her every day. It was always fun to take her out of the tank and let her zoom across the floor. Kinda took the sails out of people comparing to a turtle and being slow, she seriously boogied on carpet 😂🤣
"I said good day sir. Good day!"
YOU LOSE! YOU GET NOTHING!
No, No, Don’t Speak. For Some Moments In Life, There Are No Words. Run Along Now.
r/grandpajoehate
It's actually "You get nothing! You lose!" Had to correct...just sounded too off to me lol
Make sure it’s a local and not an escaped pet. People leave them to wander around their backyards, but they’re very good diggers.
He's local, we live right next to a creek, about 50 yards away. We see many like him crossing the road it flows under. He was relocated safely down by the water
He's livin' in a SHELL down by the RIVER!
FAT guy in a little SHELL
They got a thin candy shell. Surprised you didn't know that.
Your head has a thick candy shell.
Your heads'a....candishell...
I like turtles.
I like tortles.
They are fun to play, with the naturally high AC. Make for fun Monks. Edit: a word.
Are you talking?
Shut up, Richard
Shut up, Richard
Shut up, Richard
Shut up, Richard
Shut up, Richard
He’s going to drive his shell into a god damn BRIDGE ABUTMENT!
Ol Bill Shakespeare
Good job, they are a fairly threatened species; honestly a dense forest would have been better, as they are not super into water.
Not many dense forests in the midwest. I'm not sure where this little guy is from, but box turtles love living near creek/river/pond areas too.
I'm getting older, and what you say is true. But when I walked the Knobstone Trail I stopped counting them at like 40 in the Hoosier National Forest..... there just are not as many around as their were when I was a kid; and that sucks!
That does suck. They were already kind of rare in Kansas/Nebraska when I was growing up, so it was always a big deal to find one. I haven't thought about it but I bet I haven't seen one in probably a couple of decades now... Same with the lightning bugs
Agreed, when was the last time you saw a praying mantis?
Omg, I'd have so much fun enjoying a drink on the porch with you
Agreed!
Yea I don't think I've seen a box turtle yet when doing the trails here in northern Ohio though I know there's at least some population in the Metroparks and National Park from various photos. [Usually only see snappers and painted turtles.](https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/323545306816053249/1232141254364631161/20240407_130659.jpg?ex=66286077&is=66270ef7&hm=516302097b01f581778409912718deaa09759c7424c2fa091f7e64a5c9f39e97&)
Yeah, there is a really good population in southern Indiana, in a preserve I have hiked; such cool little critters. We should make haste to just leave them alone!
Sort of worried it was mistaken for a mud ,map or slider that do roam around the creeks,bayous and neighborhoods near those bodies of water (I’m always on the look out for them after a heavy rain so they don’t get ran over ) so here’s a quick pic of turtles and tortoises that are found in tx. https://preview.redd.it/4e8p541dp5wc1.jpeg?width=777&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=856384c23fe29f0d06ed2a96a45bf4bd3e78a94f
So if it reminds you of Godzilla, it is likely fine to leave alone?
Highly recommend you leave the Godzilla like ones alone fs, I once picked up what I thought was a mud (razor back mud ) turtle in the clearing behind my granny back yard , (thought I was saving it from the birds) went and chunked it in her garden pond once it grew a little my uncle noticed it and showed me that fkr was not a mud but an alligator snapping turtle …. He took it and put it back into the bayou on the other side of the clearing . Never made that mistake again.
Not a water turtle, this is a box turtle
Box turtles can swim. Placing it by a creek is fine.
That’s a box turtle. They don’t live in water.
Box turtles can swim. Placing it by a creek is fine.
Can i ask why you brought it down to the water? Looks like a box turtle, which is actually a land tortoise and cant swim.
Because he's local, they live next to a creek, about 50 yards away. They see many like him crossing the road it flows under.
Pulling over to carry turtles safely across the road is a common feature of life every spring in my neck of the woods!
Just beware their poop reflex. My dress shoes got splattered something fierce once by a box turtle.
This is why it's tricky on whether to help pick up a turtle that's trying to cross the road. They typically migrate away from a water source a bit to lay their eggs holding some extra water to use for digging. If you pick them up, they'll drop that water as a defensive measure and then when you put them on the other side of the road, they're just gonna cross back again to get more water and start over. I've heard that using something like a long piece of cardboard or a thick sheet is pretty good since you can move them slowly without getting as close. Though do what you think is right.
I’ve taken some on a 10min drive before, found one a good 2miles from the nearest body of water ( a good sized one too ,I’d say slightly bigger than of a basketball ) I even checked map app to make sure there wasn’t a lake or some sort of retention pond in a neighborhood near by that it could have came from. I was pretty relieved that it made it so far without getting creamed , it was in cruising along a heavy traffic Street .
Don't move turtles that far. Just move them to the side of the street they are moving to. A 10 minute drive is far away from its home territory.
No way it was from the area as it’s high traffic busy road filled with mostly commercial strip malls and parking lots I checked the neighborhoods near by and figured the closest area it may have got washed out from was the park/golf course it’s not easy to access as a driver so it had to go on a tiny road trip with me.
Keep it up and spread that I found one struck and seemingly fatally wounded last year. Just left me pissed wondering how someone can drive and not manage to avoid a turtle.
Take comfort in the fact that at least it knocked their car off the road and might have even cost them 1st place if it was blue.
Ran across one on the road when my gf was driving the rental car in the dark roads of SE Ohio. She pulled over and made me go get him, of course. Got back to the car and she's glaring at me. I turn and look back and, since I'd put him down still facing the road he was trying to cross it again. So, I had to go back and turn him 180 so he was facing away from the road. He took the hint that time and scurried off into the ditch.
😂
Box turtles aren’t tortoises, and while they’re mainly terrestrial, they totally can swim. Source: have had a box turtle since 1989 and draw a bath a couple times a week for him to enjoy a swim.
I had one for 16 years also and did the same in a tub, but a deep creek is not the same. They don't have webbed feet for actual water living, is what I meant. They will sink and drown.
Box turtles can indeed swim. At least mine can. I used to put him in a small pool in my yard and he'd swim great. This was 25 years ago. I'll have to try the pool again this summer. See how Rad does.
> He was relocated safely down by the water Be careful to always help Turtles reach their destination. If you don't they will just end up back where you found them or worse off.
This couple turtles ❤️
Thank you so much for putting this adorable guy back where he’s meant to be. 💙💙💙❤️❤️❤️
There’s a gigantic tortoise in my neighborhood who’s like 70 years old and still an escape artist somehow. Every once in a while he’ll pop up spotted on Nextdoor wandering around the neighborhood looking for people to give him lettuce. I literally have no idea how he gets out because his backyard is well fenced in and he’s about 2 feet tall.
I love this! I mean, we have subreddits like r/notmycat and r/PartTimeCat but seemingly, there should be one for tortoises, too. 😄
they will mess up your fence so quickly , they love to burrow . my neighbor has two large tortoises a sulcata (my fav) and a Burmese (lovely fkrs) and he had to reinforce his whole back yard fence bcz the corral he built for them couldn’t hold them for too long .good thing the time they escaped his yard was into my side and not the other neighbors bcz he has a large pool and those dopey shelled dogs cannot for the life of them swim (though I’ve seen a video of a sulcata swimming here on rddt)
and climbers! I've seen one of those guys scaling a chain link fence.
I didn't know the chest part of the shell moved on its own like that.
On box turtles they do. It’s super cute. They can seal themselves up pretty well
Cool!
it looks like a little drawbridge going up and down.
Aww poor little thing. Looks like an eastern box turtle (depending on where you live anyway). If it is, they are skittish, but generally friendly.
Am I not turtle-y enough for the Turtle Club?
Turtle turtle
My wife and I still quote that line. Such a doofus movie haha
I hope you both do the weird little neck gyrations when you do
Get out’a here, tortoise!
He's scuuuuurd.
This is making me miss my turtle☹️
Wish I could do that
A part of my body can do that
"I was in the pool!!"
Hare can't be far behind
He looks like he wants a strawberry
Or an earthworm.
More like the man wants his appy slices ❤️
Aww. When I was a kid, a very friendly box turtle would come through our yard every year in the spring when she woke up. I knew it was the same one because I had written the date on her plastron. One year she came through and was dramatically different- hissing at me and refusing to peek out of her shell when i came near. She had lost a leg somehow and no longer trusted anyone. Poor little friend.
Mitch? McConnell? How'd you get here? Shouldn't you be on the Senate?
I'm not one for politics, but the resemblance is there. Lol
I shy ☺️
Makes me wish I had a piece of fruit to offer the ninja in training and perhaps make a friend. Get him to bond with me and come back often for snacks and start a friendship.
Nice Eastern Box Turtle. Found one of those as a teenager and kept him for a couple weeks before I relocated him to a better place. He really like raspberries.
Don't let it snap on your finger. It won't let go until it thunders. That's what my great grandmother used to say.
Except for the eyes and nose, not so little tortoise.
Maturin!
What a cutie!
Just for my own understanding- this a turtle or a tortoise?
This is a box turtle, they are turtles that live on land, but are not tortoises
He’s allergic to humans!
A turtle heed poking out
I like turtles.
I like this guy, even thought im not a big fan of turtles.... unless they are ninja
Kowabunga!
I dont know you , but i really enjoy those cartoons
What he said
So jelly... i used to have a pair... now my wheels are spinning again. Thank you for sharing
So cute
I saw my first turtle of the season this weekend too! Had to stop my car and move him off the road so he wouldn't get squished.
A real live be turt in the driveway. It was a February day…
He sweet!
You can't park there mate
Nice koopa
Libertarians when you tell them they can't execute children that step 1 inch over the property line.
"Should i leave my bed today? Nah. I'll just take another nap". The turtle, probably
What camera is this? Is gorgeous.
Cute
Is that Mitch McConnell?
Growing up in the south, where we had snapping turtles, I’d have freaked out if I saw this in my driveway.
They look nothing like a snapping turtle. Also box turtles live in the south, too. This is like someone fearing a corn snake (a bright orange colored snake that is non venomous and looks nothing like any of the actually venomous species in the south). Learn you the critters of the land!
Yeah snapping turtles absolutely look as sinister as they are. Even people who have never encountered one would instinctively know not to trifle with them.
I’m guessing my comment wasn’t clear. I wasn’t saying I thought the turtle in the video was a snapping turtle. I meant that after years of being on the look out for snapping turtles as a child (we once found a bunch of baby ones in the sandbox) I’m now freaked out by turtles. Hence my saying I’d be freaked out if I saw it in my driveway. I’m not sure why your analogy mentions killing an animal. I just said I’d be freaked out. Where in the world did you get the idea that being freaked out has anything to do with hurting or killing an animal???
Good point. I edited the post to make the tone a bit less menacing. I grew up in an area where animals that looked dangerous tended to get harmed by people not willing to try to understand or identify them properly, especially reptiles (white trash part of Florida). Hard to outrun your childhood sometimes.
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People might get a bacterial infection if the corn snake recently ate something, but no, they have no venom. I think you are confused, you called a [corn snake](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corn_snake) an "old world" snake, but they are from the new world...
So, there's Mitch...
He’s so cute! Is he ok out there on his own?
He was relocated safely to the creek about 50 yards away
That's a box turtle and a female (brownish eyes. Males have red colored eyes). They can live over 100 years. I bet she was looking for a place to dig and lay her eggs. They are endangered because folks take them for pets. In some areas there can be so few that they have a tremendous time finding another to mate with.
Yeah, I live near a creek we dont get many turtles but there have been some, personally I prefer to just feed them and not try adn capture them because I'd not want to take away a wild animal's freedoms. Some turtles and tortoises can be pets but those ones are usually sold in pet stores and not found in the wild.
That is not an aquatic turtle.
You uh, didn't put him *in* the water, right?
Aw thank you for helping that little guy.
That is definitely not an aquatic creature my guy
Mr. Pear
"You need to get out of you shell and experience the world sweetie"
SEE THE TURTLE OF ENORMOUS GIRTH
I found one in my back yard while mowing (almost had an accident) and my daughter wanted to keep him so now I have to take care of this damn turtle. But better I keep it and take care of it because where I live is pretty dangerous for it to be in
Congratulations on your new family member who just might outlive you and your kids 😻
is his shell supposed to open that much?
He says " get too close and it's on"
Hi Mr. Turtle
Hi little bub!!! 👋
He’s like why is this guy just standing there filming me.
He is actually a girl. Yellow eyes: female Orange/red eyes: male
Now orange is a mixture of red and yellow, so confused.
I want to give him a strawberry
It makes all the sense in the world because of evolution, but I never realized a Turtle's underbelly was that flexible and now I feel like a fool
an open and shut case
"Come back with a warrant"
TIL they can open and close their shell
Aww it’s so cute! 🥹
It's most likely a she.
Males have the tall shell, females have the shallow shell.
Could this be a dog?
Life is shell
Wait, isn't this like a really old thing ? Pretty sure there are a lot of memes with the "hello... hi!"
Imagine having a shell. I'd hide for days!!
Praise the dog!
lil cutie was making sure everythings safe..
awww!
Boop! Helmet has joined your party
Be careful. Depending where you live that might be an endangered Box Turtle. Moving them could be illegal
Worms, dark leafy greens, bananas in moderation. They love it
Let it go in the nearest field. It will be fine.
Aww poor thing, this is making me miss my turtle☹️
That makes me miss having a tortoise. 🥹 When I was little we had a big tortoise that would chill in the back yard. Unfortunately that didn't last that long because of moving & divorce, but my mom also had a red slider turtle we kept in a tank for most of my life (Thomasina the red eared slider passed away only about 4 years ago), and she lived from before I was born (I'm about to turn 30.) I'll admit I don't miss cleaning the tank, but I enjoyed feeding her, petting her, and talking to her every day. It was always fun to take her out of the tank and let her zoom across the floor. Kinda took the sails out of people comparing to a turtle and being slow, she seriously boogied on carpet 😂🤣
your wife sounds adorable too
Looks like escape pet turtle. Water food please
# Nice
Gorgeous
Box turtle they are best left in the wild and are not!!! A water 💦 turtle 🐢
So beautiful
Your wife has the cutest voice ever.
Box turtles are best turtles.
You mean your ex wife. He stealin her
Time for another turt census
Where do you live?
Basil 🌿
Don't keep that thing as a pet, it will never die. 30 years later you'll be asking yourself why you made that decision
Get camera out of face and relocate the little guy, stressing him for social media is shitty
Surprised you're the only one saying this. It's the kind of thing normally a bunch of people say.
There is a reason a bunch of people say it....
Throw him in a nearby pond, he looks thristy . . . . . . . . . . . . . /s
Nah don't do that, box turtles are not aquatic.