Turtle Info
True or false: A turtle is an amphibian.
False
Should you release a pet turtle in the wild if you don't want it?
NO!
True of False: Urban Safari is home to yellow foot tortoises.
True!
The shape of a sea turtle's shell that allows them to swim through the water quickly.
What is streamlined?
The characteristic unique to turtles and tortoises.
What is the shell?
The animals, including turtles, which cannot make their own heat and must be in warm places to warm up.
What is cold blooded?
The type of lighting that tortoises need.
What is a heat light?
The largest species of tortoise at Urban Safari. They live in the dessert in Africa.
African spurred tortoise
Can sea turtles close their shell?
No!
What turtles and tortoises use to eat instead of chewing with teeth.
What is a beak and tongue?
The bottom of a turtle's shell.
What is the plastron?
True or false: it is not necessary to to give pet aquatic turtles water to swim in.
False!
True or false: Urban Safari is home to land turtles.
True!
The gender of sea turtles hatching from eggs in warmer nests.
What is female?
The two bones attached to the shell.
What are the spine and ribs?
The type of turtles that live in the ocean/ sea.
What are sea turtles?
The top of a tortoise's shell.
What is a carapace?
True or false: the turtles and tortoises at urban safari were taken from the wild.
False! All the animals, including the turtles and tortoises were someone's pet before moving to Urban Safari.
The shape of sea turtles' feet.
What are flippers?
The shape of a tortoise's feet.
What are stumpy feet?
The small tooth that baby sea turtles have in order to break out of their shell.
What is an egg tooth?
What tortoises primarily eat.
What are plants?
The smallest species of turtle found at Urban Safari.
What is the Common Musk Turtle?
The largest sea turtle.
What is the leatherback sea turtle?
What tortoises do to escape the sun's hear.
What is burying underground?