Painted Turtle Western history
The Western Painted Turtle is found all over North America from the southern parts of Canada to the northern parts of Mexico. These places include Ontario, British Columbia, Oklahoma, Missouri, Oregon, Texas, Colorado, Wyoming, Idaho, New Mexico, Arizona, Utah, and Chihuahua, Mexico. Here they inhabit ponds, marshes, and lakes that have slow moving water. Females have a very strong need to move to mating grounds where they were born.
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