Invasive red-eared slider turtles make their home in UCLA’s Botanical Garden
June 3, 2010 – UCLA's Mildred E. Mathias Botanical Garden on South Campus doesn't just display plants from around the world – it also hosts a colony of red-eared slider turtles, a species native to the American south, but not to California. And it's not just UCLA's botanical garden that has seen an influx of them. [4:28]
"Invasive red-eared slider turtles make their home in UCLA’s Botanical Garden"Red spots accent the calm surface of a man-made stream, as about 20 turtles poke their heads out of the murky water. Read more...
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Baby turtles are kept in holding tanks until they are 5 inches in diameter. Then they are released into the stream in the Mildred E. Mathias Botanical Garden.
