Pond Turtle Skull Replica
$45.00
Pond turtle skull replica is 1.8 x 1.3 x 0.9 in. The Actinemys marmorata skull is a museum-quality polyurethane resin cast of a CAS specimen.
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Description
Pond turtle skull replica measures 1.8 x 1.3 x 0.9 inches. The Actinemys marmorata skull is a museum-quality polyurethane resin cast of a California Academy of Sciences specimen. 2-part skull (separate cranium and mandible). 1:1 scale. Made in USA.
The Western pond turtle is a semi-aquatic reptile that lives in rivers, swamps, lakes, and lagoons. Originally, they ranged from northern Baja California, Mexico, north to the Puget Sound region of Washington.
It once supported a major fishery on Tulare Lake, California, supplying San Francisco with turtle soup. Hogs on Hog Island also learned to dive for these turtles in the shallows. By 2007, they became rare or absent in the Puget Sound area. It maintains a separate distribution across most of the Northwest, though some isolated populations still exist in southern Washington.
As opportunistic omnivores, these turtles hunt and eat a wide variety of food. They actively consume insects, beetles, dragonfly larvae, tadpoles, frog eggs, snails, leeches, crawfish and small fish.
They also scavenge on dead animal carcasses and eat water plants like filamentous algae, lily pads, and cattail roots.
Scientific Classification
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Chordata
- Class: Reptilia
- Order: Testudines
- Suborder: Cryptodira
- Superfamily: Testudinoidea
- Family: Emydidae
- Genus: Actinemys
- Species: A. marmorata
- Binomial name: Actinemys marmorata
- Conservation Status: Vulnerable
Poppy, the pond turtle skull replica, still cannot get over that people eat turtle soup. That is just so wrong. She is going to get all her friends together to protest the making or serving of turtle soup, and march right in front of Great Eastern Restaurant with big protest signs, and a bullhorn.
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Additional information
| Weight | 3.0 lbs |
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| Dimensions | 1.8 × 1.3 × 0.9 in |
| World Turtle Day - May 23rd | World Turtle Day is an annual observance held every May 23rd. It began in 2000 and is sponsored by American Tortoise Rescue. The day was created as a yearly observance to help people celebrate and protect turtles and tortoises and their disappearing habitats, as well as to encourage human action to help them survive and thrive. |
