I am blessed to be the care giver of the most beautiful Ouachita map turtle, a female I've named Yellow Eyes obviously because of her beautiful yellow eyes, so blessed
Didn't know Eastern river cooters could get that big! Almost thought she was the Barbour's Map Turtle for a sec. You ever gonna try finding some Black-knobbed Map Turtles? Have to say they're my personal favorite MAP Turtles.
👍 Leisurely kayaking in clear-water creeks in beautiful natural environment in search of Barbour's Map 🐢🐢! 🔍🔍😄 Love your videos ... so informative and educational! Please could you also do one on the entire "Map 🐢" family (with information on care and diet), not missing out on the "False Map 🐢" (that I presumably have a young adult female with me as an "abandoned 🐢" for almost a year now)? Keeping her in an indoor-setting and obviously not an outdoor pond in space-tight Hong Kong! 🙏 Keep up the good work, Greg! You're a great motivation to 🐢-lovers to do a better job in looking after their 🐢🐢! Bless you! 👍🙏
To be honest there’s nothing false about the false map turtles that doesn’t make them not a map turtle, they’ve got the map turtle patterning on their shells and their scutes stick out on the back shell just like how a real map turtles does, and they are a true species of map turtle, so it’s quite weird on how they’re calling it the “false” map turtle. I’ve got some turtles in real life too, they’re awesome and beautiful. Have a great day/night
@@wolfo8835 Thanks for your input! Hope I identified my 🐢 correctly and have been doing the right thing for her! I haven't come across another person in HK who has a Map Turtle yet, let alone a "false" one! Have a nice day too! 😅
Awesome work! Removed a leech in the exact same spot on a northern red-bellied in the Maurice River more than 45 years ago. A beautiful turtle 14 to 15". I used dead branch to remove the leach from the turtle and left it in the woods.
Yah!!! 😃 What an awesome kayaking and snorkeling video. That large eastern river cooter was just beautiful! The big old Barbour's map was so cool, what a noggin on her! The loggerhead musks, little river cooter, and the other Barbour's map were great to see. I'm glad the water was clear for you. Thanks for this video!
It was a few weeks ago when a river cooter was sitting on the front porch ( I wouldn’t have known this if my dad hadn’t called me but it did have parasites on inside the rim of the carapace and let it go into the pond in front of my house..
Where is this Creek out in the boat access I want to go kayaking near on my next trip down south. Please let me know wanting to do some good kayaking and this one looks very scenic and peaceful. Would love to do some kayaking there and see some turtles having a hard time finding where it is
That's a funky looking turtle... I never even k ew it existed! Cool video. On a side note... If you think Spring Creek is clear there, you should be on it just North of Lake Seminole. The creek itself gets massive, and you can literally see the bottom in 35ft of water.
Yea, I have kayaked both, but that part above lake Seminole always has the guys on riverboats stirring up the banks and bottom, making it cloudy and scaring off the turtles. For this trip I wanted a bit quieter environment. The best Spring creek experience is to do both ends 👍🏼
Fantastic content as usual ! :) Thank you. Did you already find the very rare flattened musk turtle (Sternotherus depressus) ? I know that they come also from Alabama
Where in southern Georgia are you? I used to live in Valdosta and you we ouldnt wanna be swimmin in any of the creeks around there Lowndes county is shock full of Gators!
Hi Greg, you know I breed in the hobby high end turtles but I enjoy some common species also. I love these species and I do not know if you have any captive bred / captive hatched with gorgeous markings but if you do, can I please buy some from you sir? I would be willing to take some wild caught but I prefer not too. Would you mind?
All the things I hatch are pretty typically marked, and my state laws don’t allow me to sell and ship out of state without a commercial turtle farming permit, which at this time is not on my radar. Good on you for captive breeding and taking pressure off wild populations! 👍🏼👍🏼
@@GregsTurtleHaven ... Oh okay. It's odd as I shipped into Georgia a few times to customers so I don't know if the laws there don't allow that either. If so, ooopppsss. Anyways, I understand you completely and you would find this funny I am sure a bit anyhow but my family many many years back bought me a trio of albino het snow red eared sliders as babies from 3 days old not even feeding from a guy who obviously did not care that they were not established. The family obviously did not realize they were a trio of both sexes either. They gave me these babies for a Christmas present when I returned from Iraq with near fatal injuries where my life was spared but unfortunately costed me my mobility and way of life where a few times I nearly commited suicide since my return being hospitalized over this in a on purpose overdose of powerful legal opiodes that is precribed to me still monthly. That part was not funny with suffering from PTSD and still am but not as bad. Anyways the doctor himself stated a aquarium with turtles or aquatics eases the PTSD tensions so this started me out with the 3 albino het red eared sliders over Christmas. Now they have been breeding for several years as you know or maybe not if you have not checked my short videos including the original parents and recent hatchlings. Though I would be classified as a commercial breeder I guess, I don't go out of the way to breed them as they do on their own. I keep them together year round. I have diamondback terripans doing the same and recently got into albino pink belly sideneck turtles and there is one I would like you to check out that I don't have a video on yet but I do have photos in a side to side comparison but this single albino pink belly sideneck 3 month old is showing the " *Snow* " traits we see in the slider family. If it is a unforseen snow, I believe it would be the first of it's kind but unsure. I am not going to sell that one but try to prove it out. But anyways, they breed on their own being kept together. My job is to hatch the babies out getting them started. I do have a trio of albino chinese Softshell Turtles coming that's a year away from having them breed. I am not crazy myself about how aggressive they are naturally but they are very unique. Getting a couple baby Mata matas soon also though they just get huge. Here is my latest short video. ruclips.net/video/K4nf50xtAA8/видео.html
Great video, as usual. Massive head of barbour's females is so engaging. You don't mention the unusual sex dimorphism of the species. Males are half the size of females.
9:13 pero que mrd? esa tortuga que le pasó? D: porque tiene una boca tan grande parece como si fuera una tortuga cooter como de algún género de las pseudemis pero definitivamente jamás había visto una tortuga así dentro de las llamadas sliders en general, está deforme o es otra especie desconocida?
This was a great adventure and one of the reasons I love your channel!
Your field trips a the best! I didn’t even know Barbour map turtles existed. Such an awesome head. Massive joules.
I always love beautiful, lovely barbour's map turtles..no in Texas! Good video 😉👍🐢🎸🎶🇺🇲❤️
I am blessed to be the care giver of the most beautiful Ouachita map turtle, a female I've named Yellow Eyes obviously because of her beautiful yellow eyes, so blessed
Barbour's Map Turtle is like Jabba the Hutt from Star wars
Didn't know Eastern river cooters could get that big! Almost thought she was the Barbour's Map Turtle for a sec. You ever gonna try finding some Black-knobbed Map Turtles? Have to say they're my personal favorite MAP Turtles.
Those Babours Map turtles are so cool, you can also see the relation to the Diamondbacks in those ones especially.
I agree!
👍 Leisurely kayaking in clear-water creeks in beautiful natural environment in search of Barbour's Map 🐢🐢! 🔍🔍😄
Love your videos ... so informative and educational! Please could you also do one on the entire "Map 🐢" family (with information on care and diet), not missing out on the "False Map 🐢" (that I presumably have a young adult female with me as an "abandoned 🐢" for almost a year now)? Keeping her in an indoor-setting and obviously not an outdoor pond in space-tight Hong Kong! 🙏
Keep up the good work, Greg! You're a great motivation to 🐢-lovers to do a better job in looking after their 🐢🐢! Bless you! 👍🙏
To be honest there’s nothing false about the false map turtles that doesn’t make them not a map turtle, they’ve got the map turtle patterning on their shells and their scutes stick out on the back shell just like how a real map turtles does, and they are a true species of map turtle, so it’s quite weird on how they’re calling it the “false” map turtle. I’ve got some turtles in real life too, they’re awesome and beautiful. Have a great day/night
@@wolfo8835 Thanks for your input! Hope I identified my 🐢 correctly and have been doing the right thing for her! I haven't come across another person in HK who has a Map Turtle yet, let alone a "false" one! Have a nice day too! 😅
Awesome journey with the turtles
Loved this video.
Wow I’ve never seen that species of map turtle before. Very cool.
Just when you thought you've seen it all. Wicked dope bro! 👍
What a strange looking head! I've never seen anything like that!
Great video! It looks like so much fun and so peaceful just cruising/swimming around looking for turtles 💗💗
Awesome video they look like chubby loggerheads
Awesome work! Removed a leech in the exact same spot on a northern red-bellied in the Maurice River more than 45 years ago. A beautiful turtle 14 to 15". I used dead branch to remove the leach from the turtle and left it in the woods.
Nice! I would love to see a big wild northern Redbelly
Yah!!! 😃 What an awesome kayaking and snorkeling video. That large eastern river cooter was just beautiful! The big old Barbour's map was so cool, what a noggin on her! The loggerhead musks, little river cooter, and the other Barbour's map were great to see. I'm glad the water was clear for you. Thanks for this video!
WOW!
It was a few weeks ago when a river cooter was sitting on the front porch ( I wouldn’t have known this if my dad hadn’t called me but it did have parasites on inside the rim of the carapace and let it go into the pond in front of my house..
Awesome bro glad you did one on them such a cool species how could you not love that face🤗🤘🏽
Beautiful clear water.
And the map turtle is awesome, the face look like Thanos lol
Are there any aligator on that creek?
Yes, but not many on this upper end of the creek
So cool, man!!!
👊🏼
I say it about water snakes, I'll say it about these guys, absolute frogs! Well.. that's what their faces remind me of anyway
The face of that Barbours map turtle was funny. She looked like a muppet.
very nice dude i love this map turtle
Where is this Creek out in the boat access I want to go kayaking near on my next trip down south. Please let me know wanting to do some good kayaking and this one looks very scenic and peaceful. Would love to do some kayaking there and see some turtles having a hard time finding where it is
That's a funky looking turtle... I never even k ew it existed! Cool video.
On a side note... If you think Spring Creek is clear there, you should be on it just North of Lake Seminole. The creek itself gets massive, and you can literally see the bottom in 35ft of water.
Yea, I have kayaked both, but that part above lake Seminole always has the guys on riverboats stirring up the banks and bottom, making it cloudy and scaring off the turtles. For this trip I wanted a bit quieter environment. The best Spring creek experience is to do both ends 👍🏼
@@GregsTurtleHaven Oh I agree... it's much more populated the closer you get to the Flint.
Either end of Spring Creek is awesome.
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Barbours map turtle: o__o_
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Next can you do a video on finding tortoises?
Fantastic content as usual ! :) Thank you. Did you already find the very rare flattened musk turtle (Sternotherus depressus) ? I know that they come also from Alabama
I have years ago, but I would like to do an episode on them with an Alabama turtle expert whenever I can. Amazing species
@@GregsTurtleHaven That's really great, very much looking forward to this :) Thank you
😊😁🐢😍
You should pump some iron. You could be the next wolverine. You look like a skinny Hugh Jackman
Where in southern Georgia are you? I used to live in Valdosta and you we ouldnt wanna be swimmin in any of the creeks around there Lowndes county is shock full of Gators!
Definitely have to keep yourself aware of your surroundings
Do you have videos of you in the river when it was clear? Is so can you reply with the link
Hi Greg, you know I breed in the hobby high end turtles but I enjoy some common species also. I love these species and I do not know if you have any captive bred / captive hatched with gorgeous markings but if you do, can I please buy some from you sir? I would be willing to take some wild caught but I prefer not too. Would you mind?
All the things I hatch are pretty typically marked, and my state laws don’t allow me to sell and ship out of state without a commercial turtle farming permit, which at this time is not on my radar. Good on you for captive breeding and taking pressure off wild populations! 👍🏼👍🏼
@@GregsTurtleHaven ... Oh okay. It's odd as I shipped into Georgia a few times to customers so I don't know if the laws there don't allow that either. If so, ooopppsss. Anyways, I understand you completely and you would find this funny I am sure a bit anyhow but my family many many years back bought me a trio of albino het snow red eared sliders as babies from 3 days old not even feeding from a guy who obviously did not care that they were not established. The family obviously did not realize they were a trio of both sexes either. They gave me these babies for a Christmas present when I returned from Iraq with near fatal injuries where my life was spared but unfortunately costed me my mobility and way of life where a few times I nearly commited suicide since my return being hospitalized over this in a on purpose overdose of powerful legal opiodes that is precribed to me still monthly.
That part was not funny with suffering from PTSD and still am but not as bad. Anyways the doctor himself stated a aquarium with turtles or aquatics eases the PTSD tensions so this started me out with the 3 albino het red eared sliders over Christmas. Now they have been breeding for several years as you know or maybe not if you have not checked my short videos including the original parents and recent hatchlings. Though I would be classified as a commercial breeder I guess, I don't go out of the way to breed them as they do on their own. I keep them together year round. I have diamondback terripans doing the same and recently got into albino pink belly sideneck turtles and there is one I would like you to check out that I don't have a video on yet but I do have photos in a side to side comparison but this single albino pink belly sideneck 3 month old is showing the " *Snow* " traits we see in the slider family. If it is a unforseen snow, I believe it would be the first of it's kind but unsure. I am not going to sell that one but try to prove it out. But anyways, they breed on their own being kept together. My job is to hatch the babies out getting them started. I do have a trio of albino chinese Softshell Turtles coming that's a year away from having them breed. I am not crazy myself about how aggressive they are naturally but they are very unique. Getting a couple baby Mata matas soon also though they just get huge. Here is my latest short video.
ruclips.net/video/K4nf50xtAA8/видео.html
I’m guessing you’re not allowed to own these? I can’t find any for sale online lol
I ask to send it to Indonesia for breeding
Will YBS get that big too? The females
Yes
Nice video! Do you have Instagram? I have a large female map turtle that was given to me as a Barbours Map but I'm not sure. Maybe you can help me ID.
Redbull357 @gregsturtlehaven on IG 👍🏼
Shouldn't they be the QUEEN of map turtles since the only the females get that big?
You need a GoPro
Just bought a Hero 8 after filming this video! I had a 4, but it stopped working. So many underwater videos coming starting next Friday 👍🏼
Great video, as usual. Massive head of barbour's females is so engaging. You don't mention the unusual sex dimorphism of the species. Males are half the size of females.
9:13 pero que mrd? esa tortuga que le pasó? D: porque tiene una boca tan grande parece como si fuera una tortuga cooter como de algún género de las pseudemis pero definitivamente jamás había visto una tortuga así dentro de las llamadas sliders en general, está deforme o es otra especie desconocida?