What are facts about box turtles?

Answer 1

Snapping Turtle Facts

Let's start out with the simple known snapping turtle Facts:

• They are cold-blooded.

• They eat waterfowl, fish, small mammals, invertebrates, and plants.

Now for some unknown Snapper facts:

• Their lungs cannot function in water, but they can hold their breaths for long periods of time.

• The snapper's body is disproportionately large in relation to its shell.

• A snapping turtle's lifespan is from 30 to 40 years.

• They are mostly nocturnal.

• They brummate (hibernate) in the mud under the surface in ponds and lakes.

• A snapping turtle nests usually contain 25-30 eggs.

Answer 2

The carapace of the Red-eared slider turtle can reach up to 30 cm in length. The females of the species are normally a little larger than the males. The lifespan is between 20 and 30 years. They live longer in the wild.

Answer 3

The American box turtles are widespread throughout the eastern, central and southwestern U.S. and on into the northern parts of Mexico. Box turtles fall somewhere between the aquatic water turtles and tortoises in their need for access to a body of water and to woody grassland areas with dry sandy soil on top, humid earth beneath. Box turtles forage for food, primarily plant matter, on land and spend much of their sleep time dug into burrows or wedged under fallen trees or rocks, safe from predators. They do, however, require plenty of fresh shallow water (one quarter to one third their shell height); while they are not as adept at swimming and diving as the water turtles, they can paddle around. While this water time is generally used for re-hydration and voiding body wastes, some are know to do a bit of foraging of aquatic plants and invertebrates at that time. Omnivorous when young, adults eat mostly vegetation.

Some individuals have lived more than 100 years.

While hatch-ling turtles are about 1 1/4", many are full grown when they reach anywhere from 6" (ornate, three-toed) to 8" (eastern, Gulf Coast, Chinese, Malayan). Males have thicker, and generally longer, tails than the females. Males are larger overall and may be more colorful than females. Male T. Carolina have concave plastrons (bottom shells). Depending upon their environment and diet, box turtles will reach full size within 4-6 years, and sexual maturity at four years for males, 5-7 years for females.

All turtles require a two-three month hibernation period at temperatures around 50-65 F
1. There size is 4-6 inches long.

Answer 4

1. They can reach to almost 50 years old.
2. They make a nice Turtle soup.
3. They bite - hence the name.

Answer 5

Your face and your moms

Answer 6

it has a beaked mouth

Answer 7

they are great snappers