Eastern Box Turtle (Terrapene carolina). Sex identification by eye color. Female.
North American Eastern Box Turtle (Terrapene carolina). Adult female, with brown iris to the eye. Eighty per cent of male wild population have eyes with a red iris. An example of sexual colour dimorphism or dichromatism. Face covered in slime after eating a snail.
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