Lea+-+Green+Turtle

Lea - Green Turtle The Green Turtle Adventure The Green Turtle is a gentle giant reptile of the sea. It has a hard red, black shell. Also it is as big as four desks and weighs 440 pounds. This Adventure has scaly skin like other reptiles do, but it is not slimy. The Green Turtle has a flattened body and a short neck. Its arms are flippers not claws, its snout is very short also. The reptile lays their eggs on beaches only. Mature turtles spend most of their time in coastal shallow waters with lush sea grass beds. Sea grass meadows within inshore bays, lagoons and shoals are common locations where adults can often be found. Juvenile Green Turtles are omnivorous, eating plants and animals. Their diet consists of jellyfish, shrimp, plankton and algae. Adult Green Turtles are primarily herbivores, eating only plants, but they have been observed eating jellyfish and other easy to catch marine life. Don’t forget it catches its food by hunting for it, but its babies go on its own when they are four or older. When it’s younger its mother gets its food. The Green Turtle usually lives a solitary life, except for nesting females and their young. Their diet includes crustaceans and fish when young. Adults eat plants. Their lifespan is 40-50 years. The most interesting thing about my turtle is that it is one of the largest of seven species of the sea turtle. The green turtle used to be common throughout the warmer seas of the world. Today its numbers are fractions of what they once were. Just one or two out of 100 turtles born will survive their first year.

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