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Why Does a Turtle Cross the Road?
To get to the pond
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2 min readJun 1, 2024
A small snapping turtle
crosses the suburban street during rush hour
without getting crushed
by a car.
Unbelievable!
The turtle can look both ways
as it heads for the pond
less than fifty feet away.
Up close the young turtle
looks like a charcoal briquette
blending in with the cracked terrain
of the McDonald’s parking lot
This one’s all warmed up
and ready to survey the perimeter
and bide awhile with a willing mate.
They’ll spend their afternoon
resting on a log. Then
slip away into the murky water.
Six inches of rain in May
expunged three years of drought.
Nature casts off any doubt.
Turtles really do sun themselves on logs connected to the shore. I often see turtles at our nearby lake doing exactly this.
