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South Okanagan Photos

Do you smell peanuts ?

doris sheddingBad enough – now I am shedding

Photo by Doris Lancaster on Peanut Pond

A turtle shell is bone –  many bones joined tightly together. The shell bones are covered by horny plates call scutes.  It is the scutes that are replaced from underneath shedding the outer layers.