Onesie Turtle Day!
Posted on: 23/05/2015
Onesie Turtle Day
Happy Turtle Day from Franklin the Tortoise!
Franklin loves exploring the garden in the summer, and snuggling up to his All-in-One Company Hot Water Bottle in the Winter.
Did you know...
- Turtles live in the sea, Terrapins, smaller turtles, live in water and tortoises live on land.
- Although they don’t have teeth, terrapins and turtles have powerful jaws for crushing crabs and snails and other food. Their rear feet are large and webbed for swimming.
- Tortoises, Turtles and Terrapins don’t hear airborne sounds as loudly as we do. Instead they feel vibrations in their environment – in the water or on land, and their senses of vision and smell are much sharper than ours.
- Tortoises can live a very long time, some to the ripe old age of 150. However, the average age a tortoise can live to ranges from 90 to 150 years. The oldest Giant tortoise ever recorded lived to the ripe old age of 152!
- Tortoises are what is known as herbivores, they eat grass, ferns, flowers, tree leaves and fruit
- Females dig burrows in which they can lay up anything from 1 to 30 eggs
- There are around 40 different species of tortoise found around the world
- One of the most famous stories in the world is called the “Hare and the Tortoise” and is one of the Aesop's Fable
