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Ornate Box Turtle - WDNR
Wisconsin. The high-domed shell serves as a helmet to shield its fleshy body ... male’s plastron (lower shell) is slightly concave to rest on the female’s domed shell. The male uses his ... domed, dark brown or black carapace (upper shell). The shell is up to 5 inches long. Conspicuous yellowish lines, bars and spots radiate from growth center of each shell ...
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Flatback Turtle Natator depressus - Threatened Species Day 2005 fact sheet
The Flatback Turtle gets its name from its relatively flat, smooth shell - other marine turtles have a high domed shell. Flatback shells are wide with turned-up edges, covered by a thin ... weigh up to 90 kilograms. Hatchlings are olive-green with scutes (the plates on the shell) outlined in black. When they emerge they are usually larger than other marine turtle hatchlings ...
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KTTC: Turtles Species of Ontario
Blandings turtle is a medium sized turtle with an oval shaped, domed shell that is usually dark brown to black with a light speckling ... very long neck. The soft-shell lacks the horny plates on its shell that most turtles have. Instead its shell is soft and leathery hence ... much longer than 4 inches. It has a oval shaped, smooth domed shell that is black to brown with or without some streaking. The ...
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Great Lakes Coastal Wetlands: Science and Conservation – Canadian Wildlife Service, Ontario Region
In the process, they increase the amount of open water. THE GREAT LAKES ... chain, such as organochlorine compounds, increases the risk of effects in wildlife such as egg shell thinning, reproductive failure, and congenital deformities. Population decreases seen in some species of migratory waterfowl ...
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EEK! - Critter Corner - Ornate Box Turtle
It has a dark brown, domed carapace (upper shell). The plastron (lower shell) is brown with radiating yellow lines. When threatened, box turtles box themselves in. They tuck their head and legs inside the shell while ...
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Mississippian Cultures (900 AD to 1,700 AD) | Gulf Region Heritage | Educator and Student Resources | Gulf of Mexico Program | US EPA
Mississippi River. These people were the mound builders. Not domed burial mounds, but temple mounds shaped like flat-topped pyramids of extraordinary size. The ... , because the temperate humid climate in which they lived destroyed virtually everything except pottery, stone, shell, bone, and charred wood. Their economic base was corn, but beans and squash were ...
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Green Home Building: Natural Building Techniques: Earthbag
This profusely illustrated guide first discusses the many merits of earthbag ... was a satisfying moment when all the participants had an opportunity to embed a rock, shell or other personal item brought from their country for this purpose. This will be a ...
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Green Home Building: Natural Building Techniques: Hybrids
Our domed home is a hybrid of earthbag and papercrete materials. I know of ... that is bolted all the way through the bag wall and the steel shell, right at the point where the vault starts to curve inward. This ... it could even be earth-bermed successfully if desired. The interior of the shell could be finished in a variety of ways, or even left with ...
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Georgia Wildlife Federation
The carapace (upper shell) is domed and roughly rectangular; scutes (shell plates) may exhibit a lighter sunburst pattern on each and frequently have prominent ...
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GALAPAGOS TORTOISE  -- Kids' Planet -- Defenders of Wildlife
There are two different shell shapes: domed and saddle-backed. Saddle-backed tortoises have longer necks and front legs, which ... to island. Saddle-backed tortoises inhabit the hotter, drier islands with sparse vegetation, whereas domed tortoises inhabit the cooler, wetter islands with lush ground vegetation. FOOD: Galapagos tortoises ...
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