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Ornate Box Turtle - Terapene ornata

Desert Box Turtle - Terrapene ornata luteola

Smith and Ramsey, 1952

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  Adult, Cochise County, Arizona   Underside of adult,
Cochise County, Arizona
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Hinged shell closed
to protect turtle inside		 Underside of adult, Cochise County, Arizona.
Note hinge at mid-left of shell		 Adult, Cochise County, Arizona
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Juvenile, Cochise County, Arizona Adult in habitat as found, at the edge of a road, Cochise County, Arizona
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Adult, in a rain puddle, Cochise County, Arizona Adult, in a rain puddle, Cochise County, Arizona
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Adult, drinking from a rain puddle, Cochise County, Arizona Adult, in a rain puddle,
Cochise County, Arizona		 Adult in a rain puddle,
Cochise County, Arizona
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Adult, in a rain puddle,
Cochise County, Arizona		 Adult, in a rain puddle,
Cochise County, Arizona		 Box Turtle tracks on a sandy road, Cochise County, Arizona
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Box Turtle tracks on a sandy road, Cochise County, Arizona A pair of breeding captive box turtles in New Mexico.
 
Habitat
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Habitat, Cochise County, Arizona Habitat, Cochise County, Arizona Juvenile in habitat as found, next to a road, Cochise County, Arizona
  
       
Short Videos
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Several box turtles soaking and drinking in muddy rain puddles in a dirt road one morning in Cochise County, Arizona.






 A box turtle crosses a sandy road in Cochise County, Arizona. A box turtle crosses a road and wanders into the brush one afternoon in Cochise County, Arizona.  
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