Note the beautiful turtle

in the countryside of Europe

Beautiful turtle (Trachemys scripta), known synonyms Pseudemys scripta and Chrysemys scripta, is popular in our species. Specifically, a subspecies of Trachemys scripta elegans, characterized by longitudinal red spots behind the eyes, which originally occupied the southeastern part of the U.S. (from Indiana to New Mexico, relict populations in Ohio, West Virginia and Kentucky) and the south extends to the North of Mexico. In the seventies and eighties, this turtle vytouzenym many Czechoslovak inmate teraristu. Pet shop occasionally has imported hundreds of offspring from breeding farm in the U.S., after which the stores just zaprasilo. Because breeding of turtles has been little if mastered,Many breeders they failed to create appropriate conditions and the young turtles soon died. The result was more interested in buying.
Currently the situation is quite different. Turtles are long-term behavior and successfully reproduced, so the demand for them has fallen sharply, partly because the market is offered by many other species of turtles. Many breeders will be no problem from a mini chick petikorunoveho educate adult specimen of the carapace length of over 20 cm high, with each feeding pollute the water and then dismembered food droppings. Repeated exchange of water - especially when a drain tank - is becoming an intolerable burden. Furthermore grown significantly turtle breeders hesitate to bite. Many owners of the turtles then tries to sell unwanted or overgrown inmates to donate.While they often fail to neither, it simply launches into a nearby stream or reservoir. Beautiful turtles such a large proportion settled in central and especially southern Europe, favorable temperatures, which not only successfully overwinter, but can also reproduce. Adult turtles are very vital and practically omnivorous in nature, destroyed the fauna of small freshwater habitats. Especially the larvae of amphibians are a delicacy for them. It was also found that when sunbathing on the nests of water birds (such as coots and Grebes) can cause failure vyhnizdeni because zaplasi bird parents (Pesat 2008). Imports Tselegans, as an element in the case of introduction of wild undesirable, was the European Union countries is prohibited.To traders reacted flexibly imports nezakazaneho Tsscripta subspecies, which has the yellow eyes pulmesicite spots or subspecies Tstroosti, with longitudinal yellow spots behind the eyes. Sometimes they are offered in shops and hybrids of these forms. So we can expect that for some time we in the European countryside to see more often these so-called Cockatoo turtles.
In the south of Europe a threat to turtles beautiful local species of freshwater turtles because they are larger and more fierce.

full article can be found in the June issue of Animal Planet, available on newsstands

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