This red-cheek mud turtle, Kinosternon scorpioides cruentatum, pipped on New Year's Eve.
For a new hatchling it already has a lot of color (the plastron is actually pumpkin orange but the camera flash bleaches it to yellow) as hatchling cruentatum are often pretty blah looking until they are a couple of months old.
But I shouldn't be surprised as its mother is a real beauty herself.
For a new hatchling it already has a lot of color (the plastron is actually pumpkin orange but the camera flash bleaches it to yellow) as hatchling cruentatum are often pretty blah looking until they are a couple of months old.
But I shouldn't be surprised as its mother is a real beauty herself.