The Turtle

Prepared Steliana
Constantin
 The land tortoise
(Testudo Herman Testudo
graeca) is adapted to
terrestrial environment.
She lives in forests and
steppe region of Oltenia,
Banat and Dobrogea.
 It recognizes after
her short body
covered with a tissue
composed of two
parts: the shell, at the
top, flaring red color
brown- and inset,
bottom, bright.
They are joined on
the sides, leaving two
openings that come to
the front, head and
forelegs, and at the
rear, the rear limbs
and tail.
 Tissue is made up of well-
welded bone plates covered by
horny plates.
Ribs and vertebrae are
Overgrown with shell.
Head, neck, feet and tail are
covered with gray scaly skin.
Besides the sense organs
similar to the lizard, two jaws
wrapped in a material that
forms a kind of horny beak
with sharp edges and
toothless.
 The turtle are the pets
cumbersome.
They are moving slowly because
of skeletal conformation and tissue.
The four states are short,
stacked sideways and finished with
short fingers provided with claws.
It feeds on grasses, fruits,
insects, snails and worms that you
cut with the edge of the beak.
Breath and multiplication are like
from snakes and lizards.
 Pond turtle (Emys orbicularis)
lives in lakes, ponds, rarely dry.
The secondary adapted to
aquatic life.
The pond turtle it is differs
from tortoise through the
following characters: is
carnivorous, the shell is flattened,
blackish color, like bank and
fingers are united by interdigital
membrane.
 Caret or sea turtle get to the 1-
2 m in length and 200 kg.
It has less domed shell with
less bone plates welded.
The legs are true they serve
Swimming rowing.
Multiplication is made by eggs
they deposited in the sand on the
beach.
They are hunted for their meat,
fat and eggs.
GENERAL CHARACTER OF THE
TURTLES:
- they are better adapted to
terrestrial life than amphibians
- they have skin covered with
bony plates coupled with horny
plates.
Thank for your attention!

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