My brother Broden has a turtle, his name is Sam. Sam is a painted turtle, a painted turtles are the most widespread native turtle of North America. Sam eats about 12 to 15 pieces of food twice a day. My brother has to feed him when he eats breakfast and when he eats supper. Sometimes Broden takes Sam out for a walk on our driveway, other times Broden puts Sam on the trampoline and lets him walk around on it. Broden got Sam from a pet store in Iowa City, and he is not very good at feeding him so often times I have to feed him instead. You can tell if a painted turtle is a boy or a girl because males have long tales that are wide at the base like Sams, and females tales are thin and short.
Baby red-eared slider turtles are brightly colored. With bold patterns on their yellowish under shells. Which serve as a warning to predators. the bright colors of skunks and other animals. They signal that the animals will spray nasty chemicals. In contrast, the turtle's colors warn largemouth bass. that the baby turtle will actively defend itself. When a bass gulps down a turtle, the feisty baby laws and bites. Forcing the bass to spit it out. To avoid a similar painful experience. The bass will avoid other baby red-eared slider turtles. The turtle loses its bright colors as it grows too big. For a Bass's afternoon
Will you give birth to your child at the exact same place you were born? While the answer varies, it is a definite YES for loggerhead sea turtle (Caretta caretta). It is well known that sea turtles would swim thousands of miles in order reproduce at the same location where they began their life (Griffiths, 2015). However, the methods they use to find the precise location on sandy beach has been mystery for a long time.
My mom ran a day care out of her home until I was 17 and for most of those years I had a good time with all the different kids that came through the door. The one I had the biggest problem with was my brother Ricky who is 10 years older than me and spent much of his teenage years tormenting me in as many ways he could find. I have a plethora of stories about him that range from the mildly amusing to the downright evil. I think today we’ll go over one of the evil ones as they tend to be the most vivid in my minds eye.
The ornate box turtle is a extremely common species of turtle that lives throughout the United States. The turtles can be easily recognized by their dark brown shell with bright yellow markings. Almost every box turtle is unique in marking, from yellow to orange spots on their body to the different patterns on their shell. The male and female box turtle are distinguishable by their eye color and tail size. Male ornate box turtles have red eyes and longer tails, while females have brown eyes and shorter tails. These turtles have a interesting life style because they usually live their entire life's within only a few acres. The turtles start out the day basking in the sun. from there they go out hunting for food. Ornate box turtles move and hunt
The Diadophis punctatus, or more commonly known as the ring-neck snake, is a harmless nocturnal snake that lives throughout the eastern and central part of North America. In Idaho, ring-neck snakes can be found at the west and south-east part of the state.
Red eared slider turtles can live for many years. An easy way to help ensure a long life for your pet is by feeding your red eared slider a variety of healthy foods. Another benefit to introducing variety is that your turtle will not get bored with its meals if you make its diet interesting.
Two things I learned was from Turtle pond lab was what B.O.D means for the ponds water quality and how to calculate it. To answer question number two I chose to explain the B.O.D results. I didn´t know much about the Biochemical oxygen demand so, I had to do a little bit of research on it. I find out that a high B.O.D measurement is actually bad because it means that the water is polluted and that B.O.D is used to measure a number of dissolved oxygen that an organism needs to break down organic material in a water sample. During this lab, I also learned how to measure BOD. When we were at the pond my job was to take a sample of the water in a black bottle and then 5 days later we would measure the dissolved oxygen in the sample. To find the
Kemp Ridley Sea Turtles can be found in the Gulf of Mexico and on the shores of North Carolina, South Carolina and Florida. The lifecycle of a sea turtle is magnificent. Kemp Ridley Sea Turtles are the smallest of the sea turtle species. The female sea turtle return to where she was born and lays her eggs. A Kemp's Ridley lays about two to three nests of approximately one hundred eggs every season from April to July. The eggs have to incubate for fifty to sixty days until they hatch. They dig upward and crawl towards the ocean.
Also known as the Argentine tortoise, the southern wood tortoise, and la tortuga terrestre patagónica [translation: the Patagonia terrestrial turtle], the Chaco tortoise is a rare species endemic to Argentina, Bolivia and Paraguay in South America. Formally described by British zoologist John Edward Gray (18??–18??) in 1870, and originally assigned to the genus Testudo, then to the genus Geochelone, the Chaco tortoise currently resides in the South American tortoise genus Chelonoidis.
The loggerhead turtle (Caretta caretta) distributed in all of the world’s tropical and temperate oceans, consists of 10 subpopulations based on biological and geographical traits. In 2013, 6 of 10 subpopulations have been assessed to estimate global population trend based on 3-generation change (approximately 10-50 years) of nest number as proxies of abundance. The result revealed that 5 of 6 subpopulations show a positive trend (North West Atlantic, Mediterranian, South West Atlantic, South West Indian, and North Pasific) and only one (North West Indian) show opposite trend. However, since North West Indian subpopulation is the second largest nesting population and contributes to a third global population, thus altogether, global population
The sea animal that I choose for my art project was the Hawksbill Turtle. This sea turtle is a very endangered sea turtle. The hawksbill Turtle belongs to the Cheloniidae family. The Hawksbill is the only surviving specie in the genus Eretmochelys. It's scientific name is eretmochelys imbricata. The hawksbill turtle are very solitary there whole life. Hey only meet with other turtles to mate. The sea turtle is very important because the help maintain the health of coral reefs. I choose this animal because i think that turtle are a very cute animal. I choose the hawksbill turtle because when i was searching for an endangered sea turtle i saw the hawksbill and it just caught my eye. When I first saw it i thought to my self this turtle is
The myth I wrote relates to a traditional aboriginal myth because, it has various components such as spiritually beings of animals, and the creator of water, also messages sent through animals. Animals are shown to be sacred, and have souls and spirits, also all living things live in close connection and move in cycle. Lastly the shaman, who utilizes spiritual powers of the world.
Tortoiseshell describes a coat coloring found mostly in female cats. Cats of this color are mottled, with patches of orange or cream and chocolate, black or blue. They are sometimes called torties for short.
In the article about How the Horned Lizard Got its horns the main hypothesis proposed by Young et. al. (2004) is how horned lizards used their horns to protect themselves from predators and how selection favors the length of their horns (Young et. al. 2004). The thing that the researchers wanted to test is if the length of the horns made an impact on the survivability of the horned lizards (Young et. al. (2004)). They tested this by measuring the length of the horned lizards from a group of living lizards and skulls of the deceased (Young et. al. 2004). According to the data the horned lizards the lived where the ones with the longer horns in contrast to the deceased carcasses which had the shorter in length horns (Young et. al. 2004). The
In a land far, far away, there were two turtles who were born. They were conjoined twins and shared the same body. The more dominant of the two, the one with the red spots arranged in a way that looked like Jensen Ackles’ face, is named Toby. The other, who is quite frail, has a dash of yellow on her nose is called Tabitha. They are both turtles of the Landslide Turtle Colony and were born on July 8th in 2015. Although, they were not believed to live long because Tabitha was not receiving as much food and nutrients as Toby, which has caused her to become weaker than she already is.