Pennsylvaina Snapping turtles
& what part they play in the wet lands in Pennsylvaina
Fun Facts About Sapping Turtles.
Life span of snapping turtles are 20 - 70 years.
Takes 3 - 4 months for the eggs to hatch
They lay 10 - 50 eggs
They have fleshy filamentous eyelashes
There body weight can be 35 - 40 kilograms
Habbitat
Snaping turtles are mainly found in rivers, lakes and streams in north america and rarely disscovered.
Preditors
Snaping turtle's preditors are mainly cars, raccoons and people. Cars are one of their preditors because they cross the road to get from body of water, to body of water. Raccons are another predator of the snapping turtles because they eat the eggs of snapping turtles before they can hatch. Lastly, people are another predator of the snapping turtles because they try to kill them because they always get bad news about snapers and how they are bad also people eat them mainly in stews and soups.
Eating Habits
Snapers are mainly omnivorous witch means they eat both plants and other animals. they eat plants 65% of the time and when they feed on other animals they mainly eat small fish like minnows.
How can people save wetlands witch inreturn save the snapper population?
What are wetlands?
Work Cited
Works Cited
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