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[111] [112] The longest-running study, in Michigan, has shown that painted turtles can live more than 55 years. [109] [113] Adult sex ratios of painted turtle populations average around 1:1. [114] Many populations are slightly male-heavy, but some are strongly female-imbalanced; one population in Ontario has a female to male ratio of 4:1. [115]
[3] [4] In 1995, the painted turtle was named as Michigan's state reptile. [5] Reptile habitats in Michigan are generally split into four regions: the northern and southern Lower Peninsula and the eastern and western Upper Peninsula, with differentiations based on climate, soils, underlying bedrock and glacially-derived landforms. Region one ...
The species most frequently adopted as a state reptile is the painted turtle, with four states designating it: Colorado (the western subspecies), Illinois, Michigan, and Vermont. [ 10 ] [ 20 ] [ 29 ] [ 53 ] Three southern states—Florida, Louisiana, and Mississippi—represent themselves with the American alligator.
The lake was surveyed by the Michigan Department of Natural Resources in 1998. The survey uncovered significant sport fishery resources in the form of bluegill, yellow perch, black crappie, largemouth bass, and northern pike. Traps set by naturalists caught many turtles, including map turtles and painted turtles. [2]
The Upper Peninsula of Michigan—also known as Upper Michigan or colloquially the U.P. or Yoop—is ... plus snapping turtles, wood turtles, and painted turtles (the ...
In their mission to beautify Conant Elementary School, Girl Scout Troop 76822 stood tenaciously to save the school's beloved turtle sculpture.
Many US state fish and game departments allow recreational taking of painted turtles with differing restrictions. Alabama allows a creel limit of ten, of each of the three subspecies (southern, midland, and eastern) found there, for personal use, [13] but also has a special license for commercial turtle catchers, dealers and farmers. [14]
Finland handed the defending champion United States its first loss at the 2025 world junior hockey championship as Tuomas Uronen scored in overtime for a 4-3 win on Sunday afternoon.