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Acknowledgments xi
Introduction xiii
1 Introducing Turtles 1
What are turties? 1
What is the difference between turtles, terrapins, and tortoises? 2
How many lands of turtles are there? 3
Why are turtles important? 6
Why should people care about turtles? 6
Where do turtles live? 6
What is the current classification of turtles? 7
What characterizes the major groups of turtles? 9
When did turtles first evolve? 9
What is the oldest fossil turtle? 10
What is the largest fossil turtle? 10
2 Form and Function 12
What are the largest and smallest living turtles? 12
What is the metabolism of a turtle? 16
Do turtles have teeth? 17
Do turtles sleep? 18
Can turtles see color? 18
Do all turtles have hard shells? 19
Can a turtle emerge from its shell? 20
Can turtles run? 20
Can all turtles swim? 21
Do all aquatic turtles have flippers? 21
Can turtles breathe under water? 22
Can you tell whether a fossil turtle lived in the sea, in fresh water, or on land? 23
3 Turtle Colors 24
Why do so many turtles have yellow stripes on their neck? 24
What causes the different shell and skin colors of turdes? 25
What color are a turtle's eyes? 26
Is there a reason for the patterns on the shell? 27
Do a curtle's colors change as it grows? 27
Do a turtle's colors change in different seasons? 29
Is there much geographic variation within a single turtle species? 29
4 Turtle Behavior 31
Are turtles social? 31
Do turtles fight? 33
Are snapping turtles the only ones that bite? 34
How smart are turtles? 35
Do turtles play? 36
Do turtles talk? 37
How do turtles avoid predators? 39
5 Turtle Ecology 41
Where do turtles sleep? 41
Doturtles migrate? 42
How many turtle species live in rivers? 43
How many turtle species live in lakes? 44
How many turtle species live in the ocean? 44
Which geographic regions have the most species of turtles? 44
How do turtles survive in the desert? 45
How do turtles survive the winter? 47
How do turtles survive droughts? 48
What is hibernation? 48
Do all turtles bask? 49
Do turtles have enemies? 49
Do turtles get sick? 52
How can you tell if a turtle is sick? 53
Are turtles good for the environment? 53
6 Reproduction and Development 56
How do turtles reproduce? 56
Do all turtles lay eggs? 57
Why do sea turtles lay so many eggs but box turtles lay only a few? 58
How long do female turtles hold eggs in their body? 59
Where do turtles lay their eggs? 61
Does a turtle nest at the same time and in the same place every year? 63
Do turtles nest only one time per year? 64
How many eggs do turtles lay? 65
Are all hatchlings in a turtle nest full siblings? 67
How is the sex of a turtle determined? 67
Do turtles care for their young? 68
How fast do turtles grow? 70
How can you tell the age of a turtle? 71
How long do turtles live? 73
7 Foods and Feeding 76
What do turtles eat? 76
Do turtles chew their food? 77
How do turtles find food? 77
Are any turtles scavengers? 78
How do turtles eat hard-shelled animals? 79
Do turtles store their food? 80
8 Turtles and Humans 81
Do turtles make good pet? 81
How do you take care of a pet turtle? 81
Are turtles dangerous? 83
Do turtles feel pain? 83
What should I do if I find an injured turtle? 84
What should I do if I find a turtle crossing the road? 86
What should I do if I find a turtle laying eggs? 87
What should I do if I find a baby turtle? 87
How can I see turtles in the wild? 87
Should people feed turtles in lakes? 88
9 Turtle Problems (from a human viewpoint) 90
Are turtles pests? 90
Ipo turtles reduce the number of fish in lakes and rivers? 90
Do turtles kill ducks in ponds? 91
Do turtles have diseases and are they contagious? 91
Is it safe to eat turtles? 93
What should I do if I get bitten by a turtle? 97
10 Human Problems (from a turtle's viewpoint) 99
Are any turtles endangered? 99
Will turtles be affected by global warming? 101
Are turtles affected by pollution? 102
Why do people hunt and eat turtles? 104
Are "tortoiseshell" items actually made from turtle shells? 105
Why do so many turtles get hit by cars? 105
Are boats dangerous for aquatic turtles? 106
How are turtles affected by Utter? 106
What can an ordinary citizen do to help turtles? 107
11 Turtles in Stones and Literature 109
What roles do turtles play in religion and mythology? 109
Are turtles depicted at all in the Christian religion? 112
Did any early philosophers/naturalists mention turtles in their writings? 112
What are the roles turtles have played in children's literature? 113
What roles do turtles play in popular culture? 113
What about turtles and math? 115
What roles have turtles played in poetry and famous sayings? 115
12 "Turtleology" 128
Who studies turtles? 128
Which species are best known? 129
Which species are least known? 134
How do scientists tell turtles apart? 134
Appendix A Scientific and Common Names of Living Turtles 137
Appendix B Organizations and Societies for Turtle Conservation 147
Bibliography 151
Index 157
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Christopher Gilbertson
reviewed Turtles: The Animal Answer Guide on April 16, 2013
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