What Do Freshwater and Ocean Turtles Eat?

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What Do Freshwater and Ocean Turtles Eat?

#Turtles Classified

Turtles are reptile within two different species turtle lives in water and another one calls it tortoise lives on land. The turtle has many species they are freshwater turtles and seawater turtles.

All turtles are can’t molt their skin like snake, lizard the turtle’s shell usually leave when it like dead skin piece from their shell. The turtles are many questions by kids such as what do turtles eat? the answer depends on the diet type of turtles.

box turtle diet

#Sea Turtles

The Seawater turtle is seven species were all of them make to on endangered animals in the world. Sea turtles can reach a lifespan of 80 years old.

Many people take place their eyes to protect them by endangered. For views decades the turtle’s amount was decreased in the world.

Those impact by increasing the human activity in the ocean such as fishing gear, destruction nest, Slaughtered their meat, skin, and accident capture.

The sea turtle’s species are green, hawksbill, loggerhead, leatherback, Kemps Ridley, Flatback, and olive ridley there are protected by World Wild Life for surviving from endangered animals all of them on the list of protected species.

Freshwater turtles identified tens species such as box turtle itself have many different species that can found with different on their shell patterns and geographic.

Freshwater turtle eating fruit video

#30 Freshwater turtles species as well :

- African Sideneck Turtle
  
  African side neck turtle

Alligator Snapping Turtle

sniping turtle
American Snapping Turtle or Common Snipping Turtle

common snapping turtle
Red Footed Box Turtle

red-footed box turtle

Eastern Snake Necked Turtle

Eastern Snake Necked Turtle
Diamondback Terrapin Turtle

Diamondback Terrapin Turtle
Indian Peacock Softshell Turtle

Indian Peacock Softshell Turtle
Eastern River Cooter Turtle

Eastern River Cooter Turtle
Musk Turtle

musk turtle
Reeves Turtle

Reeves Turtle
Eastern Spiny Softshell Turtle

Eastern Spiny Softshell Turtle

Eastern Spiny Softshell Turtle
Red Ear Slider Turtle

Red Ear Slider Turtle

Red Ear Turtle eating Grasshopper

Indian Tent Turtle

Indian Tent Turtle
Mud Turtle

Mud Turtle
Painted Turtle
Painted Turtle
Spotted Turtle
Spotted Turtle
Western Painted Turtle
Western Painted Turtle

Watch western painted turtle video here:

Yellow-Bellied Turtle

Yellow-Bellied Turtle
Texas Map Turtle
texas map turtle
Bog Turtle

bog turtle
Desert Box Turtle

Desert Box Turtle
Eastern Box Turtle
Eastern Box Turtle
Wood Turtle
wood turtle
Matamata Turtle

Matamata Turtle
Asian Box Turtle

asian box turtle

Box Turtle Eats Papaya Video:

Florida Softshell Turtle

Florida Softshell Turtle
Smooth Softshell Turtle
Ornate Wood Turtle
Central American Wood Turtle
Pink Belly Sideneck Turtle

Freshwater turtles are omnivores on diet lists. Freshwater turtles eating both plants and fresh meat such as fish, insects, and fruits. But, the ocean turtle’s diet depends on their species different species that also different diet food.

Like green sea turtle is omnivore it foods are grasses and algae and another species eating prey like fish and jellyfish. But, the tortoise almost all of them are vegetarian they are eating fresh fruits and leaves.

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#Tortoise

The tortoise is the turtles were spent their live-in land even unlike their cousin spent their lives in water the tortoises are land turtles categorized or tortoise species they have eighteen species such as :