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#1 Postby pawlee » Wed May 14, 2003 6:27 pm

(greetings fellow Storm2ktians! i've been sort of posting the same message around so if you have seen the one below already, not meaning to be impersonal, just have so much time to tell everyone about something cool that happened! check it out!!!) p

hey everyone! hope you are all well! at the time of this post, i am in Central PA visiting my folks. i only have so much time to be online but just wanted to drop a quick note to tell you about something that happened today. without retyping it all, please go to http://pawleewurx.blogspot.com/ and read the post i wrote for today. for those of you here who know about my passion for reptiles and amphibians, the event from today is a storytelling CLASSIC! take care and i'll try to pop in later this week! best wishes! p
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#2 Postby Amanzi » Wed May 14, 2003 7:25 pm

What a "Lucky" little turtle :) Hope she and Hamilton bring you much joy :)
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#3 Postby JQ Public » Wed May 14, 2003 9:49 pm

I love reptiles too actually. my zoology lab instructor had a corn snake and brought it in one day. I think i want one now! Lucky sounds like a great name for him...or smthg to do with luck...like irish or clover heheh. But Lucky is just great!
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#4 Postby pawlee » Wed May 14, 2003 10:47 pm

JQ Public wrote:I love reptiles too actually. my zoology lab instructor had a corn snake and brought it in one day. I think i want one now! Lucky sounds like a great name for him...or smthg to do with luck...like irish or clover heheh. But Lucky is just great!


"Lucky" named as such because any longer in that cold water and SHE (gender confirmed) would've surely been dead like the rest! p

(painted turtles though entirely aquatic are easy to keep. if you or anyone have questions about keeping reptiles/amphibians, please ask as i have a lifetime of experience and far more knowledge in this area than even with wx or ART for that matter!)

*just checkin' in before heading to bed. tomorrow it's off to the Michaeux State Forest (Pine Grove Furnace) for more mountainous adventure! interestingly, there was severe wx observed in Central IL tonight; naturally i missed it...*
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#5 Postby JQ Public » Wed May 14, 2003 11:56 pm

have fun!

Woops i guess i didn't catch the part that she was a girl. How do you know its a girl anyway? I thought all their "stuff" was internal?
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#6 Postby pawlee » Thu May 15, 2003 10:26 am

glad you asked! turtles are easy to figure out for all you do is flip them over and look... the female underside is either flat or bows outward and this is because she needs internal room to carry eggs. the male on the other hand has a dip in his bottom shell and this is to kind of give him an advantage during mating so he can get "closer" by allowing the rear part of the females shell to "fit the dip"... p

(other species of turtle such as common box turtles are even easier to sex for the eyes of females are dull or colorless whereas the male has brightly colored irises.)

*today it is off to Pine Grove State Furnace to see what other adventures we can find! came to find out that tornadoes were observed in Central IL near Champaign and Rantoul last night. w/b curious to see what for t-storms pop here in Central PA today. would be cool to get some wx pics from here!*
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#7 Postby wx247 » Thu May 15, 2003 10:41 am

Wow. Sounds like you are having some great times. I don't care for reptiles, but turtles are okay!
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#8 Postby JQ Public » Thu May 15, 2003 1:03 pm

Give us the details on the tornado.

Anyways, the turtle i always wanted to see (not actuallly have) is one of them alligator snapping turltles. Those are one of the scariest looking things i've ever seen (on tv). I always wanted to check on out in person! Have you seen one of those. I believe its called the alligator snapping turtle...?
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#9 Postby pawlee » Thu May 15, 2003 9:27 pm

JQ Public wrote:Give us the details on the tornado.

Anyways, the turtle i always wanted to see (not actuallly have) is one of them alligator snapping turltles. Those are one of the scariest looking things i've ever seen (on tv). I always wanted to check on out in person! Have you seen one of those. I believe its called the alligator snapping turtle...?


as for the tornadoes that set down, take a look at the NWS LSR for Central IL!
http://iwin.nws.noaa.gov/pub/data/text/NWUS53/KILX.TXT
(several of the guys based in/around Champaign who chase got the show of the season!)

as for Alligator Snappers, i saw one once many years ago at Clyde Peeling's Reptileland located in N PA. that thing must've been the size of a kitchen table! looks just like the common little version but on steroids...

another scary/ugly looking turtle is the "South American Matamata"... do a search using those words, that creature is downright GNARLY!
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#10 Postby JQ Public » Thu May 15, 2003 10:34 pm

lol! Chasing is sure smthg i want to try at least once! Go ahead call me crazy hehe.

I also wanted to see one of them galopagos tortoise's! Those are some huge mamajamas...its my own movable dining table and/or stool hehe. jk!
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