🎉🐢🐢 We’re shell-ebrating a conservation success: the hatching of two critically endangered Bourret’s box turtles! Ever since the turtles emerged from their shells June 12, Reptile Discovery Center keepers have closely monitored them to ensure they are eating and gaining weight. They appear to be healthy and thriving, weighing 25 grams—and growing! Learn more: http://s.si.edu/2rCFLew. #WeSaveSpecies | Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute

4.9M views · 52K reactions | Have you ever seen box turtles breed? I don’t know why but it’s always a little comical. They almost always breed in water. The males make use of the female not wanting to stay boxed (closed) up while in the water. While on land the female will box up and stay that way for quite some time if she wants to. | Southern Reptiles | Facebook

78 reactions | Our Eastern Box Turtles have came out of brumation and...