The Eastern Box Turtle

Welcome to "The Amateur Naturalist".Your host is Tommy Fowler.  I have a biology degree from The University of Kentucky and a high passion for the outdoors.I have been in retail management for many years, and I am currently a Human Resources Senior Field Trainer.  In this role, I teach, train, coach and develop many associates to be future leaders with our awesome company.  In this position, I speak very often one-on-one and in large meetings to associates teaching many aspects.With my love of the outdoors and my speaking skill set, I want to talk about and hopefully educate people on nature, wild animals, and plants.There are some ways that you can help me:Please hit “download” on each of my episodesPlease hit Followplease leave this podcast a reviewplease give me a rating of 5 stars (this will help me grow)if you would like to donate monetarily, it would help me a lot to acquire the technology tools to do this podcastplease tell 1-2 of your friends and family about the podcastThis is Episode #1 of Season #1 and today's podcast is about "The Eastern Box Turtle".In this episode we will discuss these topics about the Eastern Box Turtle:Genus/Species namewhat they eatwhere they livehow to differentiate males from femaleswhy they are declining rapidly in populationThank you so very much for listening today and please give me a rating of 5 stars.The short music intro and outro is:"Hickory Hollow" by Dan Lebowitz.  I love his music and thanks Dan!