Painted Turtles do hibernate in the wild if the temperature is cold. They will burry themselves in the mud at the bottom of a pond, lake, or river for a long time. In captivity, they shouldn't hibernate if they are kept indoors because their body senses that it is still warm and it is not the time to hibernate.
The painted turtles benefit for survival is just like any turtles, the shell.
Usually with a colorful shell on the bottom.
Turtles have both. They have an interior endoskeleton like humans and their shell counts as an exoskelton.
Their shells appear to be painted, but it is accutually just the pigment in the shell that makes the paint like color.
no, stinpots are musk turtles not painted turtles
painted turtles are NOT harmful at all!
yes turtles do have a bottom shell
actually, yes...it is alright that your turtle is shedding it's shell. that means it is getting bigger. Look at it as if it were a little child. Children grow out of clothes so they need to go get new one...well turtle grow out of their shell but instead of getting a new one(besides their shell is part of their body...it is like a bone) they just shead to make more room for them to grow.
painted turtles drink out of a little drinking dish. painted turtles like fresh unsalted water
No, not regularly. Painted turtles eat aquatic vegetation, algae, water insects, crustaceans, and fish. Most species of turtles don't go after other turtles unless they are a aggressive turtle. Exceptions for this are Snappers and Musk turtles which are more carnivorous.
they are cool because they are turtles
they ARE NOT painted.