Turtle are diapsids of the Testudines characterized by a special bony or cartilaginous shell from their ribs and acting as a shield. The turtle is including a kingdom of animalia, of course, they phylum is chordata ( chordata is thye animal who include by avertebrata and invertebrata type, and they have notokorda, that is a nerve tail who have hollow space in their sistem), turtle is also include by the class of reptillia, the clade of testudinata (is the group of all tetropads with a true turtle shell)m, and the subgroups of cryptodira and pleurodira.
Let’s talk about their habit. The turtle live in almost every ocean basin throughout the world, nesting on tropical and subtropical beaches. They migrate long distances to feed, often crossing entire oceans. Some loggerheads nest in Japan and migrate to Baja California Sur, Mexico to forage before returning home again.
Specifically, what kind of jaw it has for masticating (chewing) food, where it lives and what food sources are available to it. some of the turtle is a carnivores, while the others follow a strictly vegetariaan diet and most of them is the omnivores, eating both animals and plants. A turtle diet is different according to their species. Sea turtle may eat seagrass, algae, sponges, sea squirts, squid, shrimp, crabs, jellyfish, cuttlefish or sea cucumbers. A freshwater turtle’s diet is just as varied and may include worms, snails, insect larvae, aquatic insects, crustaceans, water plants, algae and fallen fruit. Some species of freshwater turtles, such as snapping turtles, also eat small mammals, frogs, snakes, fish and even other, smaller turtles, according to Connecticut’s Department of Energy and Environmental Protection. The terrestial turtle is also eat variety food from earthworms, grubs, snails, beetles and caterpillars to grasses, fruit, berries, mushrooms and flowers.
the turtle life cycle is starts when the female lays its egg on the nesting beach, usually in the tropics. From six weeks to two months later (depending on the species), a tiny hatchling makes its way to the surface of the sand and heads to the water, dodging every predator imaginable. In their life cycle, there is periode named ” THE LOST YEARS “, it is a priode when the turtles have a movements during the phase of hatchling. They will swim until they return to coastal waters to forage as juvaniles may be as long as a decade. Following the “lost years”, when they have grown to approximately the size of a dinner plate, their pelagic (open ocean) phase comes to an end and they return to coastal waters where they forage and continue to mature. During this time, these reptiles are highly mobile, foraging over large areas of ocean.
Ten to fifty years after hatching (depending on the species), adult reach sexual maturity and are able to mate. Once they reach sexual maturity they will migrate to beaches around the world to nest. Only females will come ashore to lay eggs, generally in the area where they were born. Most species will nest several times during a nesting season every 2-4 years over the course of their lifetime.
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