the turtle

The tortoise of crawling animals, including those living on land, including those living in the sea, is cold blood, and characterized by a shield covering the body, which is a hard horn cells, to protect them, and can know the age by counting the geometric shapes formed by these cells completely As a way of knowing the age of trees through the circles in her leg.

Characteristics of the Tortoise:
Turtles are different in shape, and in general, sea turtles are larger than wild turtles, in addition to their extremities. The wild turtle has short legs that end in claws and are slow to move because of the shortness of its legs, the weight of its thick dome, To swim in addition to flattening the cornea where you earn a streamlined form, but both breathe with the lung, and have a heart composed of the athenin, and mud, adapts to the body with the heat of the environment in which it is located, and have no teeth, but the beak, which can crush food, Dirty horny scales.
Tortoise feeding:
The wild tortoise feeds on weeds and vegetables. The marine turtle feeds on small marine animals, especially jellyfish, and feeds heavily on vertebrate animals such as jellyfish, crabs and mollusks. They are able to grind their bones with their strong decomposition, , And they eat nylon bags and plastic floating on the water, thinking of them as jellyfish, endangering their lives. The marine turtle is a food for some peoples, such as Chinese, where they prepare meals, especially turtle soup.

Breeding of the Turtle:
The turtles prefer to live alone, meet in the mating season, meet sea turtles from the beaches, and prefer the shores of the uninhabited islands. Both species dig, lay eggs and then bury them. When the young hatch, they go to the sea and come out only when mating , Laying eggs, where they lay eggs after about a month and a half or two months of mating, and it applies to wild turtles.
Turtle in peoples cultures:
Although the Chinese consider it a delicious food, they also admire its existence and think it brings luck and money. As for the Arabs, they beat the proverbs in slowness and longevity. Some of them live for more than 100 years. The turtles occupied a place in cinema and movies. The four-part ninja turtle, a popular film, has also been prepared as a children's cartoon with the same idea as the movie, and the turtle occupies the position of the wise personality in children's programs in general.