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Common box turtles are official state reptiles of three U.S. states. North Carolina and Tennessee honor the eastern box turtle, [14] [15] [16] Kansas adopted the ornate box turtle in 1986. [17] [18] In Pennsylvania, the eastern box turtle made it through one house of the legislature, but failed to win final naming in 2009. [19]
After Hurricane Helene battered Florida's Gulf Coast, all the sea turtles were transported to The Coastal Stewards facility in Boca Raton.
As Florida's Gulf Coast readies for Hurricane Helene to make landfall as a major hurricane Thursday, it's not just human residents who are at risk. Florida's wildlife will be bracing for impacts ...
Flooding, uprooted trees, and structural damage are just the tip of the iceberg of the destruction from Hurricane Helene. Hurricane Helene’s surge smashes records for high water levels in Tampa Bay
The age of a growing box turtle in the wild cannot be accurately estimated by counting the growth rings on the scutes; Their growth is directly affected by the amount of food, types of food, water, illness, and more. Box turtle eggs are flexible, oblong and are (depending on the taxon) on average 2–4 cm long weighing 5-11 g.
Florida recorded a rise in cases of Vibrio vulnificus (a flesh eating bacteria that favors warm waters and spreads in heavy flood rains) following Hurricane Helene, which Hurricane Milton exacerbated. Prior to Helene, 6 cases had been reported in September; by the end of the month that number had risen to 24.
In reality, Helene is a gigantic storm that will produce damaging winds, catastrophic surge, and flooding rainfall over most of Florida and well inland into Georgia and the mid-South, so ...
Hurricane Helene hit Florida as a Category 4 storm on Thursday, causing severe flooding, power outages, and widespread damage across multiple states.