The Painted Turtle

I was wondering what to write about this morning. I had noticed that my last blog had a tail end error which was about Cooper's Hawk. Since Cooper's Hawk was a predator, then I thought I would write about a victim which would not be one of the Cooper's Hawk.  I remembered a beautiful turtle on the tail end of my property cornering another person's. The turtle had stripes on him like a Eastern Painted Turtle.

      Eastern Painted Turtles are relatively water turtles. They are very numerous throughout the Southeastern states in Mississippi and Alabama. The Turtle is mostly painted up in yellows, reds and black. Their shells are yellow bordered with darker colors and underneath the shell, they are yellow. The turtle doesn't get large as many water turtles do. They get about 9 to 10 inches large.

     Eastern Painted Turtles love chowing down on food like Water lilies, dead fish matter, crayfish and other types of vegatation. They aren't much of hunters since they don't get too large. Their predators are usually canines, Possums, snakes, and other predators. Numerously, they raid nests more than they kill turtles themselves. The turtle will fight back; clawing biting and peeing on the predator to get it to release.
   
     The Eastern Painted Turtle isn't regarded as a turtle to keep as a pet unless you are an enthusiast who would take care of it and observe it on a regular basis. It's not one you would want to have as a pet for a child.


Sources:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Painted_turtle

http://www.outdooralabama.com/watchable-wildlife/what/Reptiles/Turtles/pt.cfm