Juli and I were walking the shores of our pond the other day and found this painted turtle basking in the sun. We took it home for an evening to observe it. Making a nice mini-pond out of a large plastic storage bin filled with small stone and water we had a great time watching it swim and crawl about the tank. Knowing a wild turtle is difficult to get to eat in capivity we released it back to the pond the following morning. A very iteresting thing happened. As you can see in the video it swam away from us. But a moment latter turned around and swam back to us. Crawled out of the water up to the kids then as though to say something blinked at us. It did not leave the bank until we walked away. Skipper, as the kids have named him, has some new friends.
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