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Viewer Rusen Rai says that this is a juvenile tricarinate hill turtle. Thanks, Rusen! A Malayan Box turtle at Kaziranga National Park in Assam, India. The Malayan box turtle (Cuora amboinensis), or southeast Asian box turtle is a species of Asian box turtle. These turtles have blackish-brown to olive brown colored shells that are not as ornate as many other box turtles. All have a blackish olive head with three yellow stripes on the side. The male can be identified by the slightly concave shape to its plastron. There is no specific pattern to what the underbellies may look like, for either sex. The only true way of telling age is to guess by the texture of the shell, as growth rings form irregularly. Kaziranga National Park is a national park in the Golaghat and Nagaon districts of the sta
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