Box Turtles: Everything You Need To Know!
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Published 2018-03-03
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All Comments (21)
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Hey there everybody, Ben here! Thanks a ton for watching that video, I really hope that you enjoyed. I am actually sitting in a Florida hotel room typing this comment right now, and will be knee deep in swamp water for the rest of the day, so I will apologize in advance if I take longer than usual to reply to comments. Also, I recently found out that I have received a full ride scholarship to study conservation biology at my top college, so have been quite busy attending to the various responsibilities that entails. With that being said, you can expect an AWESOME video coming to you on the morning of Saturday, March 17th. (P.S It will be filmed in full 4k quality!) -Ben Zino
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When I was a kid, back in West Virginia, I grew up with a Box Turtle in my yard. I would pick him up and play with him from time to time. He spent his winter down deep under the rosa's. I would watch for him in the spring. He loved tomatoes. I loved my little friend
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We currently have 10-20 box turtles in our yard right now, they are so cute, and they love it when we tap their shells! They range from about 2-40 years old.
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A guide to taking care of your own Michelangelo? Aw yeah let’s go!
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Box turtles can swim and in fact float. Not "sink like a rock" just saying.
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Used to find many in the suburban subdivision I used to live. We found 3 or 4 babies when I was a child. Last summer I found 3 in the same month in August, all within a couple hundred yard range. One was a smaller mature mature female, then there was a juvenile female and a juvenile male. All very healthy and vibrant. Sadly, the small patch of woodland that I used to walk daily for 20 years was ripped up and destroyed the following fall. The county needed to maintenance on a lot of underground water lines that passed through the forest, so now it's all gone. I used to see great blue herons, foxes, beavers, muskrats, deer, red tailed hawks, geese, woodland mallards, box turtles, occasional common snapping turtle, cooter turtles, other basking turtles, bullfrogs, raccoons and all sorts of other things there despite the woodland being surrounded on all sides by subdivisions. All gone now. I live somewhere more rural and remote, but haven't seen a fraction of the wildlife I used to see there. It feels like a part of me was taken when they tore all those trees down and will never return.
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I helped one across the street today. I’m happy about it. I turned my car around and stopped traffic
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wow, you guys have wild turtles in your yards?! i envy you.
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I live in Northern Virginia, and have a pool. Found one in my pool swimming, I immediately got it out, 2 hours later back in the pool, I looked at the Turtle and discovered it now had red eyes... Determined that the Turtles live in my back yard and have lived there for 15 years, last year found a baby one...Woohoo!!!
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Congrats on the scholarship, that’s amazing!! These videos are always so informative!
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Everything you need to know and MORE! Great vid Ben! Congrats on that scholarship!!
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Thanks for video, found one in my yard in Ga, left him alone.
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Found these fellas in Michigan as a kid. Found the same specimen a few years in a row actually. Beautiful turtles that need to be kept in their natural habitat :)
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i saved one from the road yesterday
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Wow congrats on the scholarship! Also I did not know that some turtles can't swim, so that was new information for me. Great video and good luck with all the paperwork for college haha!
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Actually, box turtles float like foam. And when I keep turtles, I some times set them in some deep warm water they float.
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I am from New Jersey I had a male and female Furdy and Elizabeth for about 30 years..they were so much fun to have....she laid eggs twice but no luck with babies follow all instructions in taking care of the eggs but just no luck. We loved them took them to the vets when they were not so well and had them for 30 years.... How we miss them....Furdy and Elizabeth God Bless them
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My grandma says she used to see them all the time when she was a kid. I've only ever seen one in the wild :/ Texas here
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Found one in my yard today. Have never seen a turtle in our neighborhood in 3 years. I thought something was wrong and basically did everything you told us not to do. Haha. Thanks for the info, he is okay and has buried himself in the pinestraw in front of our place. We also live in NC.
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I just got one from on my road and this helped a lot :-D
