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Ooooh, nice haul. When's the breakfast buffet?  but seriously, good news for the cause of conservation! Go turtles!
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ZarathustraFollower posted:No. In sea turtles and some semi aquatic turtles (I've seen it in Bog turtles at a minimum) you'll see the opposite where several females will lay their eggs into a single nest site. I've never heard of wild turtles eating each others eggs. I'd hazard a guess that's a captivity related stress response. Right, their whole reproductive strategy is that a whole bunch of eggs hatch at once and the biggest possible swarm of hatchlings pull a Reverse Landing At Normandy and bolt for the sea, hoping that sheer numbers overwhelm any predators picking them off at their most vulnerable. Eating another turtle's clutch means there's that many fewer hatchlings to potentially distract predators from YOUR hatchlings.
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Build Skiffy a miniature fully plumbed toilet and train him how to flush op
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Cowslips Warren posted:That looks like a green anole, so someone probably bought him from Petsmart for $8 and got sick of taking care of him. Or he's an escapee from a pet store. Either way he is not native to Texas and will probably freeze in that weather. They seem to be present in the eastern third of Texas along the Gulf Coast, at least according to https://tpwd.texas.gov/huntwild/wild/species/anole/ So yeah, maybe a bit outside their normal range, but not automatically some invasive PetSmart escapee
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