Chicken Turtle

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Chicken Turtles (Deirochelys reticularia) are basking turtles that inhabit still ponds along the Souteast and Gulf Coast states.

Fast facts: They have long necks and they mate in the fall and winter.

© 2006 Patricia A. Michaels