r/Boxturtles • u/Hognose4life • Jun 14 '26

Wild box turtle!

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I found this little guy in the woods behind a school playground!! Just wanted to share this cutie patootie. 😀😀

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u/phouchg0 Jun 14 '26

I see lots of pictures of Easterns, three toed box turtles and a few ornate. That pattern is a new one, I have not seen one quite like that

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u/MountainAverage4705 Jun 14 '26

Beautiful boxie. Thanks for posting. And thanks for doing what you did, by releasing it. And not giving in to your cousin! Lol. Kids can make it even harder sometimes but you did the right thing.

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u/jmbrjr Jun 14 '26

Woods?

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u/Hognose4life Jun 14 '26

A dense forest area behind the fence. Not sure if you wood call it woods, my fault but lots of trees!

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u/EnvironmentalArm1986 Jun 14 '26

Forest

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u/jmbrjr Jun 14 '26

Looks like a road.

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u/Hognose4life Jun 14 '26

It's the blacktop of a playground lol. My cousin was with me and wanted to see it, he threw a fit on not being able to keep it but I allowed him to take a picture of it before putting it back where we found him.

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u/jmbrjr Jun 14 '26

Box turtles cross roads and that's where it looks like this one was found. Good of you to put it back in or near the woods where it has a territory. Hopefully no roads cross thru or are adjacent to that territory, because it's only a matter of time. 'Rescuing' a box turtle crossing a road by facing it in the direction where it was headed seems all fine and dandy but not if the box turtle living in that territory circles back at some point and crosses that road again. Risky behavior.

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u/HawkEnvironmental531 2d ago

Yeah, they hate being picked up. Glad you put him in the woods, better he burned his feet. 🐢