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Red-eared sliders are highly social, and groups will often gather on logs or rocks to sunbathe as a way of regulating their body temperature, especially since they spend a lot of time in the water.

It's not hard to find red-eared sliders at the park. One April day in 2015, for example, 50 turtles were seen basking in the area of the park, according to ODFW.

The Delaware Department of Agriculture warns anyone who purchased turtles, specifically the red-eared slider turtle, between August 2020 and January 2021, to take extra precautions to prevent illness.

He’s one of a dozen red-eared slider and yellow-bellied slider turtles looking for a home in the D.C. region. The Humane Rescue Alliance in the District said it has a higher number of turtles ...

Most red-eared sliders grow to around 9 to 12 inches long and can live about 40 years in the wild. They’re not tortoises, but they are terrapins.

More than 52 million red-eared sliders were legally exported from the United States between 1989 and 1997, many of them to China, according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature.