Vittore Carpaccio paintings

Vittore Carpaccio paintings
Warren Kimble paintings
turtle is known to venture out onto roads at this time of year to find places to lay their eggs."Just ride around the block around here in June and you'll see dead carcasses everywhere," she says. "Anyone who walks along a major road sees tons of shell fragments."Jeffrey Lang, a biologist at the University of North Dakota in Grand Forks is researching what size culverts turtles and tortoises are likely to pass through rather than lumbering across treacherous paved highways. His work so far suggests 3-to-4-foot wide underground passageways might appeal to most of the shell-covered reptiles. Pet Collectors Also ThreatApart from increasing road kills, Gibbs suspects one other factor might be behind the population declines — pet collectors. He points out that spotted turtles can be sold for hundreds of dollars in Europe and that may be having a big impact on the animal.