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What Do Fresh Water and Ocean Turtles Eat

Turtles are reptile within two different species turtle lives in water and another one call it tortoise lives on land.  The turtle has many species they are fresh water turtles and sea water turtles. All turtles are can't moult their skin like snake, lizard the turtles shell usual leave when it like dead skin piece from their shell.

Sea water turtle are seven species were all of them make to on endangered animal in the world. Sea turtles can reach lifespan 80 years old. The people take place their eyes to protect them by endangered because on views decades the turtles was decrease on the world that impact by increase the human activity in the ocean such as fishing gear, destruction nest, Slaughtered their meat, skin and accident capture.

The sea turtle’s species are green, hawksbill, loggerhead, leatherback, Kemps Ridley, Flatback and olive ridley there are protect by World Wild Life for survive from endangered animal all of them on list protect species.

That just sea turtles furthermore the fresh water turtles identified of tens species such as box turtle box turtle it self have many different kind that can found with different on their shell pattern.

Fresh water turtle eating fruit video


30 Fresh water turtles species as well : 


  • African Sideneck Turtle
    African Sideneck Turtle
  • Alligator Snapping Turtle
    Alligator Snapping Turtle
  • American Snapping Turtle
    American Snapping Turtle
  • Red Footed Box Turtle
  • Box Turtle
  • Eastern Snake Necked Turtle
    Eastern Snake Necked Turtle
  • Diamond Back Terrapin
    Diamond Back Terrapin
  • Indian Peacock Softshelled Turtle
    Indian Peacock Softshelled Turtle
  • Eastern River Cooter
    Eastern River Cooter
  • Musk Turtle
    Musk Turtle
  • Reeves Turtle
    Reeves Turtle
  • Eastern Spiny Softshell Turtle
    Eastern Spiny Softshell Turtle
  • Red Ear Slider Turtle
    Red Ear Slider Turtle
  • Indian Tent Turtle
    Indian Tent Turtle
  • Mud Turtle
    Mud Turtle
  • Painted Turtle
    Painted Turtle
  • Spotted Turtle
    Spotted Turtle
  • Western Painted Turtle
    Western Painted Turtle
  • Yellow Bellied Turtle
    Yellow Bellied Turtle
  • Texas Map Turtle
    Texas Map Turtle
  • Bog Turtle
    Bog Turtle
  • Desert Box Turtle
    Desert Box Turtle
  • Eastern Box Turtle
    Eastern Box Turtle
  • Wood Turtle
    Wood Turtle
  • Matamata Turtle
  • Asian Box Turtle
    Asian Box Turtle
  • Florida Softshell Turtle
    Florida Softshell Turtle
  • Smooth Softshell Turtle
    Smooth Softshell Turtle
  • Ornate Wood Turtle
    Ornate Wood Turtle
  • Central American Wood Turtle
    Central American Wood Turtle
  • Pink Belly Sideneck Turtle
    Pink Belly Sideneck Turtle

Fresh Water Turtles are omnivore on diet list both plant and fresh meat such as fish, insects, and fruits. Ocean turtles diet depend what their species different species that also different diet food. Like green sea turtle is omnivore it food are grasses and algae and another species eating prey like fish and jelly fish. But, the tortoise almost all of them are vegetarian they eat fresh fruits and leafs.

The tortoise is the turtles were spent their live-in land even unlike their cousin spent their lives in water the tortoise is land turtles or tortoise species they are have eighteen species such as :

Fresh water turtle eating apple video

  • African Spurred Tortoise or Sulcata Tortoise
  • Desert Tortoise
  • Yellow Foot Tortoise
  • Hingeback Tortoise


  • Elongated Tortoise
  • Galapagos Tortoise
  • Gopher Tortoise
    gopher tortoise
  • Marginated Tortoise
  • Hermann Tortoise

Fresh water turtle eating grasshopper video