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Our pet Red Ear Sliders often will start a nest hole & abandon it if rocks or roots make digging difficult.
Digging is done by the hind legs & our smaller turtle (6" long shell) will dig a hole 2 or 3" in diameter & 6" deep.
Our turtles will keep searching for new spots to dig for several days & we find ourselves following them for a few hours at a time. When they have a good hole, they lay 4-13 eggs, tamp them down, cover with earth & pack it carefully. They often repeat the act a week later. They choose different spots each time & vary between gravel, sand, lawn, garden, forest floor. They refuse to accept a nest box in the house.
Snapping turtles seem to prefer nest holes in gravel on the shoulder of roads. Sea turtles dig in sand beaches.
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∙ 14y ago
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∙ 12y agoYes. Female turtles will sometimes lay unfertilized eggs even when alone. This is a common behaviour in other animals as well such as birds. On rarer occasions turtles can also store sperm from an earlier encounter with a male, and lay a fully fertilized egg.
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∙ 16y agoyes they do but without a male they will not hatch.
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∙ 9y agoFemale turtles bury their eggs to protect them from predators. Male turtles normally do not eat the female'a eggs if they are not buried.
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∙ 14y agoOh, she does lay eggs, all right. She doesn't make a nest.
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∙ 13y agoNo. Female turtles do not die when they lay their eggs.
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A male and a female will mate to produce young.
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No, male turtles can lay eggs.
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Females don't fertilize eggs it is the male that fertilizes the eggs
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no the only male animal that can lay eggs are sea horses
Which eggs hatch into male and which into female?
females
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yes
Do only female sea turtles lay eggs?
no male sea turtles can also lay eggs when they are mid-aged.
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when the seahorses are mating the female seahorse puts about 1500 eggs into the male seahorses pouch. The male seahorse carries the eggs for 4 to 45 days and then releases the seahorses into the water and leaves them.
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No, not at all. The males provide the females with their sperm so that the females can have fertilized eggs. After that, the females hand all their eggs over to the males for safekeeping. So the male is not pregnant, but holds all the eggs, and appears to be pregnant.
Why don't male turtles lay eggs?
Males of any species do not lay eggs.
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Only the females lay eggs.
