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Here is a handsome little red-bellied slider in bruset's hand:
Dragon, that is a baby red belly, right?
Dragon, that is a baby red belly, right?
Here is a handsome little red-bellied slider in bruset's hand:
Dragon, that is a baby red belly, right?
Yes, baby redbelly......one of the few turtles that gets less attractive with age. Don't see many babies nice find.
Thanks dragon, but I have to give infinite sameness credit for the find. How old would you guess he is? When do they lose the stripes on their head and the patterns on their shell?
He/she was probably born late summer of 2006, possibly overwintering in the nest.....so 1.5 years old. They start to lose alot of there coloring around 5-6 inches long. The bright coloration in young may keep predators away, as some brightly colored things are posionous.
Good stuff, dragon. So that latin name is Pseudemys rubriventris? How many different kinds are there? Apparently some of them retain the stripes on their head into adulthood, although the kind we have in the Pines do not?
ICANOE, thanks for fixing my photo. I just can't seem to get it right.
Your welcome!
Make sure you don't have http:// twice after you paste the URL of the photo, that may have been what went wrong.
Gabe(I think),
The northern redbelly has a very limited range, its stonghold is obviously here in southern nj. They do retain one or two stripes on there head into adulthood, and the ones found within the cedar streams are by far the most pretty. They are in the slider family and throughout the south and midwest there are many subspecies, some of which are more pretty adults. Some examples would be florida redbelly, rio grande cooter, pennisula cooter, river cooter, florida yellowbelly.
If you guys enjoy turtle photos I have a couple 100 photos of them....i can post some if you'd like.
The northern redbelly has a very limited range, its stonghold is obviously here in southern nj. They do retain one or two stripes on there head into adulthood, and the ones found within the cedar streams are by far the most pretty. They are in the slider family and throughout the south and midwest there are many subspecies, some of which are more pretty adults. Some examples would be florida redbelly, rio grande cooter, pennisula cooter, river cooter, florida yellowbelly.
If you guys enjoy turtle photos I have a couple 100 photos of them....i can post some if you'd like.
Dragon, I never noticed any stripes on the adults. Do they typically get obscured by stuff in the water? Can you show us a few pictures of some adult red bellies with stripes on their head?
Gabe
Gabe
Gabe, they sometimes fade with age.....also the mud from stream like the rancocas(outside the barrens) mucks up there head and disguises it. At the same time the iron, cedar water sometimes blemishes their head. For the most part the one or two stripes are there but just faded. I'll have to see if I have a good pic........unfortunately I spend little time photographing redbellies because they are so locally common.
Are the redbelly what i would call a common slider? Then there is the red eared slider. The redbelly are not either of these? I was fascinated with turtles when i was younger and don't remember hearing about redbelly sliders. It was always slider or red eared.
Dragon i see we live very close to each other, i bet we hit a lot of the same lakes.
Dragon i see we live very close to each other, i bet we hit a lot of the same lakes.