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If you are born with fur or hair (like, say, your large shell-less mama) and you have red or pinkish tinted eyes, you might be an albino. In fact, even if you were born with a shell and your eyes are red or reddish, you might be an albino. Albino beings look the way theyContinueContinue reading “Day 93: What Has Red Eyes and Is Not Albino?”

As a box turtle, you know you come from an impressively ancient lineage. 200 million years is nothing to sneeze at. Even better, you’ve picked up some eminently practical and, frankly, pretty fabulous specialized skills along your evolutionary journey. Take neck retraction, for instance. It took joining an interspecies flock to realize not every beingContinueContinue reading “Day 18: Box Turtle Neck Retraction”

Being born a box turtle has its benefits. For starters, you have this awesome unique hinge on the back underside of your shell. Thanks to this hinge, you can pull every single appendage (head, tail, legs – the whole package) inside your shell and active its hinge and – presto! – no more box turtle!ContinueContinue reading “Day 12: What’s Under the Box”

The large shell-less beings may not always be that swift on the uptake, but they definitely have their moments. For example, let’s take the day you first met your personal shell-less assistant. And she was instantly smitten with you – your pale ivory neck skin, your oh-so-colorful orange cheek patches, the way your bright redContinueContinue reading “Day 9: Box Turtle Booty”