Reptiles from Cali Colombia

davholla · Jan 31, 2016

A terrapin (or turtle)?

IMG_9818turtle by davholla2002, on Flickr

Close up of it

IMG_9993terrapin by davholla2002, on Flickr

Iguana

IMG_9951lizard by davholla2002, on Flickr

Close up of Iguana

IMG_9964lizard by davholla2002, on Flickr

baturn · Jan 31, 2016

Nice set.

xDarek · Feb 1, 2016

I love the 2nd and the 4th one.Good job!

Donde · Feb 1, 2016

Very nice shots of those guys.

LarryLomona · Feb 3, 2016

the last is my favorite.

snowbear · Feb 3, 2016

Nice shots; I really like 2 and 4.
Turtles spend most of their life in water and tend to have webbed feet; terrapins spend time on land and in water, and live close to water. Tortoises are land dwellers.

davholla · Feb 4, 2016

snowbear said:
Nice shots; I really like 2 and 4.
Turtles spend most of their life in water and tend to have webbed feet; terrapins spend time on land and in water, and live close to water. Tortoises are land dwellers.

So can you tell if it is a Turtle or a Terrapin?

JamesScott86 · Feb 4, 2016

Great shots. Thanks for sharing.

snowbear · Feb 4, 2016

It looks like a Slider of one kind or another, which are turtles. One Wikipedia article lists two Sliders native to Colombia - the Colombian Slider and the Meso-American Slider. I am no expert, I am a cartographer; I could make you a map of where turtles and terrapins live, but I'd have to research to figure out which one it is.

davholla · Feb 4, 2016

snowbear said:
It looks like a Slider of one kind or another, which are turtles. One Wikipedia article lists two Sliders native to Colombia - the Colombian Slider and the Meso-American Slider. I am no expert, I am a cartographer; I could make you a map of where turtles and terrapins live, but I'd have to research to figure out which one it is.

Thanks for that a quick search shows they are quite similar. Colombia is often a depressing country when you ask the natives for names, often people have no idea of even the really common species.