North American Eastern Box Turtle (Terrapene carolina). Adult female. Eighty percent of wild population of males have red eyes.

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North American Eastern Box Turtle (Terrapene carolina). Adult female. Eighty percent of wild population of males have eyes with a red iride; females have a brown iris. An example of sexual colour dimorphism or dichromatism.

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