What makes this ability especially valuable is that yellow-bellied sliders frequently inhabit waters with high bacterial loads that would cause serious infections in most other animals. Their skin and ...

Short-distance migrants: These can include the eastern phoebe, the yellow-bellied sapsucker and the song sparrow. Medium-distance migrants: These are birds that migrate a few hundred miles.

while the most common terrapin species were musk turtle and yellow belly slider. The study found that the most common disorders in tortoises were beak abnormality (17.68%), overgrown nails (11.91%) ...