Wood Turtle discovery - CTnaturalist Online

[pannoni1]

Looks like Krang and Shredder each pressed the dislike button.

[Delganyboy121]

i like turtles...they taste good in soup

[kidknarly1]

counting the lines doesnt always work,because these lines appear when they shed the scutes,ans they may do tht multiple times a year

[tsadjatko]

@kidknarly1 Absolutely right! each ring represents a growth spurt of which several can occur in one year or season - the rings can be narrower in times of drought or lack of food or thicker in times of plenty but do not indicate accurately the age of a turtle, at least not correspondingly to the way rings of a tree indicate the tree's age. However in wood tutles the scutes are not shed as in many aquatic species - this is what gives them the "carved wood" appearance hence the name Wood Turtle