55+ Year old Terrapin in local pond (UK)!

RitchieB

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Id known that there had been sightings of a Terrapin in a pond/lake in my local area (Hertfordshire just outside london) so decided to go take a look. It was massive, about a dinner plate in size.

I got talking to a man at the lake and he told me he remembered it being there since he was a child(12) he was now 67. I had no idea it was so old, i thought it was a reject after the boom of the sale of Terrapins due to the release of the Nija turtles film released in the early ninetys.

So does any one eles have a story about such oddly placed exotic animals in the UK?
 
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