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  Red-eared terrapin (in temple pond)

 

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Red-eared terrapins grow rapidly and once they have become too big to be kept as a pet, they are often released into the wild, city parks or -like this one, which is basking on the leaf of a water lily- in a Buddhist temple pond.

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