1. Blanding’s Turtle

2. About Blanding’s Turtle
A Blanding’s turtle’s size can range from 16 to High-domed carapace ( top shell ) dark and
22 cm covered with pale yellow flecking

3. Blanding’s Turtle Hatchlings
Hatchlings have a brown carapace (top shell)
Hatchlings are no bigger than a quarter

4. Interesting Facts
Why are they endangered? What humans are trying to do to help
them
• Their habitat is getting destroyed
• They are trying to save their habitats
• Humans run them over because they but they still die from humans
are so small
• Still have roads running right through
• People put roads through their their habitats
habitats and the turtles walk in the
road and get run over • Trying to get them to safer places

5. More facts About the Blanding’s Turtle
• They don’t produce hatchlings until • Even if you try to preserve their
they are 14-20 years old habitats, nut they still have roads
• They live in around Massachusetts going through their habitats, they still
• They need a wide open space so that can’t survive
they can walk around freely without • Use appears to vary according to the
getting killed individual and amount of
• They eat: precipitation, more upload utilization
– Cray fish
during dry years
– Frogs
– Earthworms
– Snails
– Vegetation
– berries

6. I think the Blanding’s turtle is fun and interesting to learn about because
sometimes you never know what animal is being endangered or had
become extinct.
MY OPINION ABOUT THE
BLANDING’S TURTLE

7. Information and pictures by Meghan