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Turtles and tortoises are reptiles.
Turtle Classification:
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Testudines
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Other Names: Tortoises,
Turtle in Foreign Languages:
Afrikaans: skilpad
Albanian: breshkë
Azeri: tisbaga
Basque: dortoka
Belarusian: carapáxa
Bengali: kachim
Breton: baot / baoted / baot douar
/ baot vor
Bulgarian: kostenúrka
Burmese: lei
Catalan: tortuga
Chamicuro: majpolo
Chinese: Mandarin: gui / wugui
/ wángba / bie Cree: miskinâhk
Czech: elva
Danish: skildpadde
Darkinjung: kutumung
Dutch: schildpad
Esperanto: testudo
Estonian: kilpkonn
Fijian: vonu
Finnish: kilpikonna
French: tortue
Galician: tartaruga / sapoconcho
Georgian: zrvis ku
German: Schildkröte
Greek: nerochelóna / chelóna
Gullah: cootuh
Haitian Creole: tňti
Hawaiian: honu
Hebrew: tzav
Hindi: kachu'a
Hopi: yöngösona
Hungarian: teknosbéka / teknos
Indonesian: kura-kura / penyu
Irish: turtar
Italian: tartaruga
Japanese: kame / umigáme
Korean: geobuk / padageobuk
Kyrgyz: tabaka
Lao: tao
Latgalian: brunisrupucs
Latin: testudo
Latvian: brunurupucis
Lithuanian: velys
Luxembourgish: Deckelsmouk / Schildkröt
Macedonian: élka
Malay: penyu / kura-kura
Maori: honu
Nahuatl: ayotl
Navajo: ch'ééh digháhii / tsisteel
Nynorsk: skjelpadde
Pali: kacchapa
Persian: lâk-pot
Polish: zólw
Portuguese: tartaruga
Rapanui: honu
Russian: cerepáxa
Scottish Gaelic: crůban-coille
/ sligeanach
Roman: kornjaca
Slovak: korytnacka
Slovene: elva
Spanish: tortuga / peta
Swahili: kobe
Swedish: sköldpadda
Tagalog: pagongpawikan
Tajik: sangput
Tamil: amai
Telugu: tabelu
Thai: tŕň
Tswana: khudu
Turkish: kaplumbaga / tosbaga
Turkmen: pysbaga
Ukrainian: cerepáxa
Uzbek: musicha / toshbaqa
Vietnamese: růa
Welsh: crwban
West Frisian: skylpod
Wolof: mbonnat mi
Yiddish: tsherepakhe
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Size: Turtles and tortoises come in a variety
of shapes and sizes. The smallest turtle is the bog
turtle measuring only 3 to 4.5 inches in length. The
largest turtle is leatherback turtle weighin gup to
1800 lbs and measuring up to 8 feet long. The lightest
turtle is the Cape tortois weighing only 5 ounces.
Senses: Turtles have good eyesight and an excellent
sense of smell. A turtle's hearing and sense of touch
are both good and they even have nerve endings in their
shell.
Habitat: Turtles and tortoises are found on
all continents except Antarctica. Turtles primarily
inhabit temperate and tropical regions. Turtles are
found in oceans, swamps, freshwater lakes, ponds, streams,
deserts, forests, and grasslands.
Description: Turtles are characterised by a
special bony or cartilaginous shell.
Diet: Many turtles are herbivores. They graze
on grass or browse on the leaves of bushes and shrubs
within their reach, some turtles will also eat fruits.
Some aquatic turtles eat aquatic plants, while other
aquatic turtles like snapping turtle are predators and
prey on waterfowl or other marine life.
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Incubation: Turtle eggs will incubate
for 2 months to 1 year depending on the species.
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Did You Know?
The shell of a turtle is made up of
60 different bones all connected together
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Birth: Even aquatic turtles lay eggs on land.
Turtles will bury their eggs in soil, sand, or vegetation.
Sexually Mature: Turtles sexually mature between
the ages of 5 to 25 years depending on the species.
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Life Span: Land tortoises live up to
150 years, while aquatic turtles live up to 70
years.
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Did You Know?
Turtles and tortoises dont have teeth.
Instead, their mouths have a hard, sharpened
edge that they use to bite with, kind
of like a birds beak.
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