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View documentation: This is what it looks like when two turtles mate in Jerusalem

The land turtle mates mainly in the spring, but sometimes takes advantage of the pleasant weather for an additional mating cycle.

It so happened that a small turtle tried to mate with a large turtle in the Turtle Valley (a) Yam in Jerusalem.

The Society for the Protection of Nature calls on those who raise turtles in their homes to return them and allow turtles proper living and nutritional conditions.

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• Turtles

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• Deer Valley

Ziv Reinstein

Tuesday, 26 October 2021, 09:28 Updated: 09:42

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Mating turtles in the Deer Valley (Photo: Nitai Yirchi, Society for the Protection of Nature)

Hundreds of families returned to the Deer Valley in Jerusalem turtles that kept their home.

And the turtles?

Mating !.

Nitai Yirchi, a shift manager in the Deer Valley in Jerusalem, walked around the park last Saturday, an urban nature site owned by the municipality and run by the Society for the Protection of Nature, and documented a phenomenon not seen every day: land deer mating.

And if you want in detail - a small land tortoise is trying to mate with a huge land tortoise the size of.

Amir Balaban, director of urban nature at the Society for the Protection of Nature, explains that the land turtle mates mainly in the spring, but sometimes takes advantage of the shortening of days and pleasant weather, for an additional mating cycle, even on these autumn days.

"Many have noticed that in recent years fewer and fewer turtles have been seen, and indeed, the common land turtle is in danger of extinction in Israel and around the world. If the situation continues, it is possible that in the near future they will disappear completely," Balban adds.

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Are in danger of extinction in Israel and around the world.

Land deer (Photo: Society for the Protection of Nature, on the Hamerman-Diesel)

Allow turtles proper living conditions in a unique residential compound and receive proper nutrition (Photo: Society for the Protection of Nature, Dov Greenblatt)

"The real home of turtles is nature"

The turtles came to the Deer Valley by families from all over the country, who kept and raised them at home as pets, as part of a joint venture with the Nature and Parks Authority designed to allow turtles proper living conditions in a unique residential compound and receive proper nutrition, unlike their previous habitat. "We are very pleased with the willingness to return the turtles, the vast majority of which will not be able to reintegrate into the wild and may even pose a sanitary hazard to the existing population. When a turtle is taken home, it experiences a major crisis." "The turtle's body is protected from harm. The turtles' real home is nature, and the very act of taking them puts them in enormous distress and is a violation of the law," explains Yael Hamerman Soler, the park's director.

Omar Darel, the initiator of the project from Deer Valley Park, explains that many factors contribute to the deplorable condition of turtles: deterioration in habitat quality or their complete destruction in favor of housing development, infrastructure, etc., SUVs and ATVs coming off the trails The area leads to a proliferation of crows, jackals, and stray dogs that prey on many turtles near the cities and more.

"All of these factors are a direct result of human activity, but in recent years it has become clear that we are eliminating turtles in a much more direct way when we take them from the wild."

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A small turtle mates with a large turtle in Deer Valley (Photo: Society for the Protection of Nature, Nitai Lunar)

Returning turtles raised in private homes (Photo: Society for the Protection of Nature)

It is important not to pick up turtles at home

The Society for the Protection of Nature says that turtles are a large and diverse group of animals: there are predatory and vegetarian turtles, turtles in water and on land, turtles as large as dogs and small as insects, colorful turtles and even turtles that live more than 200 years.

The common land turtle is the small and slow turtle familiar to all of us and the most common turtle in the country, and was previously found in all parts of the country except the Negev and the Judean Desert.

The turtles feed on a very wide variety of plants, dozens of types of herbs, roots, tubers and sometimes the turtles even eat small animals such as worms.

It is important not to collect turtles from the wild at home.

"We continue to receive and receive turtles from all over the country. The modest corral that has been established has become a kind of transit station where the turtles are sorted. Natural, "concludes Hamerman Soler.

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