If somebody says that they got a new pet turtle, there’s a big chance that it’s a red-eared slider. This species is the most popular in the United States. It’s also common as a pet across the globe.

Lambert estimates they caught about 90 percent of the total red-eared slider population in the arboretum. They also tracked the weight of the western pond turtles and observed the turtles' basking ...

In the summer of 2011, visitors to the University of California, Davis, Arboretum may have witnessed an unusual site: small teams of students wielding large nets, leaping into the arboretum's waterway ...