Animals

Stop Following Me!

I was watching this little slider climbing up the concrete slope & he kept looking behind him. He seemed very concerned about something. Turned out he was being followed. Check out those long toenails, one of the ways to know it is a male.
Male Red-eared Slider (Trachemys scripta elegans)

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