The different types of

Turtles

By: Coral CaiolaApril 23, 2010

Where’s the

ocean?

Fresh Water Turtles The Snapping Turtle

Top predator, known for its powerful beaked jaw.

The Red Eared Slider TurtleSpend most of their time

basking in the sun. The Pig-nosed Turtle

Has a nostrils at the end of a fleshy snout.

The Snaked necked Turtle Their long neck is

comparison to the length of their bodies.

Snapping Turtle

bodyThe Spiny Soft-shell Turtle

The most quick and alert swimmers. The Painted Turtle

They can breathe air and absorb oxygen under water.

Most turtles usually live in swampy areas where there is a lot of mud and vegetation. They love swimming and digging in rocks and mud, turtles also love the warmth of the sun, and can lazily lay there for hours.

Maximum length is about 8 inches.

Females have brown eyes or light orange, Males have red.

They will eat insects, plants, and anything they can fit in their mouth.

As they grow older their diets change to plant materials.

Box Turtles are extremely slow.When frighten they can go completely inside their shell.

The average life span is 40 years.

But its possible for them to live to 100.

They enjoy going into water.But they can not swim like other turtles.

Land Turtle The Box Turtle is the only

terrestrial

Sea Turtles

The Leatherback sea turtle. The loggerhead sea turtle The Olive Ridley sea turtle The Green sea turtle The Hawksbill sea turtle The Kemp’s Ridley sea

turtle

Although I am a sea turtle I am still a air breathing reptile, and need to come to the surface to catch a breath. I can hold my

breath for several hours, depending on my activity.

A female sea turtle will

deposit 150 to 200 eggs.

Incubation about eight

weeks

Only about 0.001% hatch and make it to

the ocean.

One thing that helps the baby sea turtles survive once they make their way out into the open waters is the hard shells, and their instinctive ability to find beds of seaweeds to hide in.

Baby Sea Turtles Journey

The largest Sea Turtle

They dive deeper then any other turtle.

Leatherbacks can dive to depths of 4,200 feet.

Only one in a thousand hatchlings survive to adulthood.

Leatherbacks are currently endangered.

Some have up to 11 pound of plastic in their stomachs.

Average life span in wild up to 45 years.

Individuals have measured a shell length of 1.85 meters (6 feet).

Weights of 637 kilograms (1,400 pounds).

Leatherbacks primarily feed on jelly fish.

Ridges along the carapace gives it a more hydrodynamic structure.

They can stay under for up to 85 minutes.

Leatherback Sea Turtle

Sea Turtle Nesting Sea Turtles nest during the

warmest month of the year. All females return to the same

nesting beach every year. By using her hind flippers she

digs a egg cavity. The eggs are soft-shelled. The eggs are surrounded by a

thick clear mucus. The female covers the nest

with sand by using hind flippers.

The sand keeps the shells moist and maintains proper temperatures.

Green Sea Turtles Mating

Male sea turtles of all species except leatherbacks have enlarged claws on their front flippers. These help grasp the shells of the females during mating.

THE DIET OF SEA TURTLES

Green Sea TurtlesJaws adapted for a vegetarian

Sea grasses and algaeHawksbill Sea Turtle

Jaws meeting at an acute angleEats coral reefs, sponges, shrimp, squids

Loggerhead and Ridley Sea TurtleJaws are adapted for crushing and grinding

Eats crabs, shrimps, jellyfish, and vegetation

Leatherback Sea TurtlesDelicate scissor-like jaws

Eats jellyfish and soft bodied animalsOlive Ridley Sea Turtle

Jaws are adapted to crushing.Eats crabs, shrimps, rock lobsters and jellyfish

Sea Turtles often mistake plastic bags for jellyfish, they have found up to 11 pounds in some turtles stomachs.

The Diet of a Fresh Water Turtle Snapping Turtles

Frogs, fish, snakes, small turtles, and small mammals.

Red Eared Slider Turtle Tiny fish, water snails, and

variety of plants. Pig Nosed Turtle

Plants, fruit, snails, and insects. Snake Neck Turtle

Tadpoles and small fish. Spiny Soft Shell Turtle

Insects, snails, and plant materials.

Painted Turtle Worms and tiny fish.

SEA TURTLES MAIN CAUSE OF DEATH

Sea turtles can hold their breath for several hours but when in a panic they freak out and

use up all their air causing them to drowned or be put in a coma.

How Turtles Hibernate Anywhere from late September to November, when the temperature drops. The turtle will find a muddy spot at the bottom of the stream. The Box turtle will dig a hole in the ground.The snapping turtle will dig under a log burying itself a foot deep. Painted turtles will only dig 18 inches into the muddy bottom.

Turtles Top Predators

Ghost crabsSharksKiller whalesLager turtlesHumans Big fishAn uncountable amount of birds.

Log-ger-head Sea

Turtle; 350

Leatherback Sea Turtle; 1400

Green Sea

Turtle; 500

Hawksbill Sea Turtle; 200

Pounds

HOW MUCH DO SEA TURTLES WEIGH

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