Florida Box Turtle (Terrapene carolina bauri) (6165877600)

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Description: The distinctive pattern of bright radiating yellow stripes of this Florida subspecies. These amazing turtles live as long as 80 years in the wild (much less in captivity), despite being surrounded by the mayhem of construction, traffic, mowers and collectors. They forage for earthworms, snails, slugs, grubs, beetles, caterpillars, grasses, fruit, berries, mushrooms and flowers. This one battened down the hatches as I stopped briefly to grab a snapshot. Date: 16 September 2011, 10:04. Source: Florida Box Turtle (Terrapene carolina bauri) Uploaded by Jacopo Werther. Author: Bob Peterson from North Palm Beach, Florida, Planet Earth!.