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Spotting

Description:

Basking turtle covered in algae sticking its leg out

Habitat:

On a fallen palm tree in Orlando Wetlands Park

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1 Comment

AshleyT
AshleyT 9 years ago

95% of basking turtles I see stick out at least one of their back feet like that. No idea why they do it, but it's extremely common.

Machi
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Machi

Florida, USA

Spotted on Apr 11, 2014
Submitted on Apr 13, 2014

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