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RE: Biggest turtle (tortoise?) (terrapin?) I have had cross the road in front of me....EVER!
hahaha! very good sir, you're sounding much better than a dang Yankee! yeah we have a huge guy like that, he goes from one pond to the other. I think they live to be decades old I know the real big tortoises are like 100 years old. our guy is about 1 foot or more across the shell.
Looks a LOT like this one, doesn't he?
yeah that's what I thought, ours may be a little older or a different type because it had big points sticking up on it's tail which gave it a dinosaur look!
Pretty close though. Especially the neck and overall body shape.
yeah a couple of big guys, with the winter temperatures up there and the thick ice, how in the world do those guys survive, where do they go?
Don't they hibernate in the mud at the bottom of the pond?
yes sir! well, when we got here and saw all our turtles and then the ponds froze over I looked it up and yeah they hibernate. some types can go for 4 or 5 months without breathing and some can actually breathe under water. very strange creatures but very interesting when you see them through the ice swimming along!