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Sexy Sliders

7/22/2022

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Sliders are freshwater turtles that exhibit a crazy variety of courtship behaviors! 🐢 Here are a few of my favs:

Ornate & Gray’s sliders shower water over females by ejecting it through their nostrils (heads-up to the lads: human females are much less receptive to this).

In red-eared sliders males vigorously vibrate their enlarged claws in front of the females face—this is called “titillation”.

In yellow-bellied sliders, females are the ones that normally display to males and perform a unique blinking behavior which shows the white flashes of the eyelid (called a nictating membrane in reptiles). 😉

#sliderturtle #pondslider #turtlepower #courtship #aquaticlife #turtlesofinstagram #wildlifeeducation #herpetology #turtle
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    Jimmy Wehsener

    NSF Graduate Research Fellow​
    PhD Student | Blumstein Lab 

    UCLA

    ​​Master of Science
    Biological Sciences 

    Mississippi State University

    Bachelor of Science
    Molecular Environmental Biology 
    UC Berkeley

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