Exactly 1 week ago we were at -2 F with snow on the ground. Today it was 81 F and a crusty, old, male ornate box turtle was out looking for his girlfriends.
Exactly 1 week ago we were at -2 F with snow on the ground. Today it was 81 F and a crusty, old, male ornate box turtle was out looking for his girlfriends.
Do your Ornate's exhibit this behavior readily as in come out of hibernation when it warms and go back down into leaf piles, etc... when it's cold? I ask because some of mine do. Some stay hibernated all winter but a few individuals will come in and out of whatever area they've burrowed themselves into (usually leaf piles) depending on the weather. None of my three toed's has ever done this - not one ever in years. Only Ornate's (and again, only some, not all). Seems odd behavior - wondering if you or anyone else who keeps them experiences the same....
I've discerned no rhyme or reason to who pops up first each spring. Sometimes an ornate, sometimes a three-toed, sometimes a male, sometimes a female. Today I spied the same male ornate and an extremely old female three-toed cruising around. (I've had her 46 years and she looked old back when I found her crossing a neighborhood street.)