The Genesee County Park and Forest volunteers, the ACORNS will be hosting a free event in honor of one of their longest volunteers, Ruby, a Red Eared Slider turtle. The goal of the event is to ...

GENESEE, N.Y. — The Genesee County Park and Forest volunteers, the ACORNS will be hosting a free event in honor of one of their longest volunteers, Ruby, a Red Eared Slider turtle.

Tucker is 7 to 8 inches long. As a red-eared slider, a species that is not endemic to New Jersey, Tucker should stand out with its reddish ears and olive shell with thin, pale yellow lines.

A red-eared slider turtle swims in a tank in Ohio in 2013. On Wednesday, Davis police returned a red-eared slider turtle to the UC Davis arboretum after it was spotted downtown. Adam Cairns Imagn ...