Wood Turtles
A Pet Care Guide for Wood Turtles
Wood Turtles General Info, Purchasing, Care, Cost, Keeping, Health, Supplies, Food, Breeding and More Included!
By Lolly Brown
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Foreword
Wood Turtles are a great pet choice if you want to start taking care of turtles. It is a friendly and popular turtle breed, has a sweet personality, well-behaved and easy to handle. These turtles are known for its active and alert personality.
They are also branded as the most responsive type of turtles known to man, even comparing it to dogs. Its shell is wonderfully sculpted, showing red to bright yellow/orange skin, which is pleasing to ones eyes. They also possess beautiful black eyespots with yellow and orange swirls that would amaze you. Also known as the Ornate Wood Turtle, these turtles are very common to the pet trade world. They are imported to and from Costa Rica.
This book will deal with everything you need to know about Wood Turtles. Youll get to know its colorful history, breeding information, health and welfare, and other essential information. We hope you enjoy this fun-filled journey in buying and raising your very own Wood Turtle!
Table of Contents
Introduction
Wood Turtles are known for its ability to walk further than any other breed of turtles and can cope with the terrestrial and aquatic environments, easy to train, and relatively tame. These medium sized turtles are known for well-defined pattern found on top of their carapace, which looks like a set of pyramids.
Found on northern Costa Rica up to southern Nicaragua, these turtles made home on terrestrial or aquatic habitat, but when the temperature drops, they go back to large streams and rivers to hibernate and because the water will not freeze here.
In summer, these turtles like to walk along the shore to find food and hydrate itself. Wood Turtles are daytime animals and would like roam around and suck up all the sunlight it can get. They can set up home for around 2.5 to fifteen acres and well within short distance of water throughout the year.
They were first hunted as human food but were later on collected for pet trade due to its big decrease in population. These turtles as easy to feed as they are omnivorous and would easily eat slugs, tadpoles, insects, algae, wild fruit, grass, leaves, carrion, moss, and even worms.
You might think turtles are easy to take care and breed, but they are not! They still need special attention to satisfy its need. You still need to know how to raise it properly, give proper care and health protection, so it can have a happy and healthy lifestyle.
In this book, we will help you decide whether these wood turtles are the right pet for you. At the end of this book, you will gain new knowledge about them. Happy reading!
Chapter One: Wood Turtles 101
Wood turtles are a great turtle breed if you want to start taking care of turtles. They are intelligent, easy to train, as well as easy to feed. They have doglike characteristics that will ease you in taking care of it. These turtles live easily on both aquatic and terrestrial territories wherever it might need to live. In winder, they dig deep holes or stay in deep rivers and streams to prevent from freezing. First of all, these turtles might be a different path for you to take. But this path will lead you to utmost joy and peace. These turtles are quick to learn and easy to live with, you will not regret investing in these little species overtime.
Here, we will give you the essential information, such as the biological facts, its colorful history, and evolution of this turtle. This will arm you with the essential knowledge in taking care and learning about this species. This and all the other information that you will learn in the succeeding chapter will help you understand your desired pet Wood Turtles.
Facts about Wood Turtles
Wood turtles belong to the family of Emydidae, which can be found in the North eastern part of the United States up to the Canadian territory. A number of these species and its family are well distributed in Mexico, Northern Ecuador, and Northern part of Brazil. They typically live in savannahs, on riverbanks, or in forests where they can love peacefully.
Some of these species are only found in Costa Rica and Nicaragua. Wood turtles are somehow endangered because of people keeping it as pets and inaccessibility.
These turtles go back and forth the riverbanks and terrestrial area. In early June, turtles move away from the stream up to 1,000 feet. They go to wetlands, woods, and meadows area.
Females with eggs go to nesting area in mid June. Some may even travel up to one mile to build a nest. From June to September, turtles spend time away from the stream but may go frequently go back to it for short period of times. Breeding occurs in streams and happens in August to November. Also, breeding does not occur during spring.
