Animals

Survivor

She is beautiful...even if she is missing a hind foot and a chunk of her shell where her front left leg emerges. Her "red ear" looks like she may have some mixed DNA from either a Yellow-bellied slider or a Cumberland slider, both of which have been found in this lake.
Female Red-eared Slider (Trachemys scripta elegans)

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