Their mud colouring and relatively small size (carapaces up to 28 cm [11 inches]) make them inconspicuous and more likely to be overlooked in cultures that view all turtles as harvestable for food or medicine.
Here, Allen continues his obsession with mud colours, getting Owen Wilson, Rachel McAdams and even Carla Bruni to slope around the Left Bank in a tonal palette of chocolate, biscuit and taupe, accented with denim and a little bit of snobbiness.
The futurists rejected greys, browns and all mud colours, the passionless right angle, the horizontal, the vertical "and all other dead lines", and the unities of time and place.
"It started to inundate the homes of people near the basin – the streams started to receive this red mud, the colour of the streams started to change, dead fish started appearing," Cardoso said.
The mezcal we've traditionally been saddled with in Britain has usually had a worm in the bottle and been of a dark, mud-puddleish colour.
The steaming liquid is thin and mud-brown in colour.
Then again, if that camera has a bright flash on it, that tea could well be the colour of mud.
It doesn't care if you're famous, live in a mud hut or what colour you are; depression just loves everyone.
When listing their inspiration for the event they reference "several awesome events, including Disney's World of Color, Colour Parties, Mud Runs, and festivals throughout the world such as Holi".
"Real mud, when it dries, changes colour.
