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Red-eared slider. An Iowa native.
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Too fat to pull in.
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Thus the red-ear appelation.
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Prodigious front toe nails on this dude.
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Very strange toenails.
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Short toe nails usually belong to females.
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Red ear slider on display at Saylorville Dam Visitor Center.
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Here's a couple at our Blank Park Zoo. They evidently eat out
of a food bowl.
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Of course, they'd prefer to eat under water -- especially crayfish.
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Baby red-eared slider.
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Same shy guy This pic is for size.
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Traditional yellow belly on the red ear.
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One-year-old red ear fed on a hamburger diet. Note the
pyramiding.
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Western painteds sport a mostly red belly.
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Little baby western painteds found at a local lake. We wish we
could sell these.
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Baby western painted. Ditto above.
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The six-inchers are not as commercial.
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Five plate-size red-ears at our Des Moines Blank Park Zoo, March,
2009.
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