A turtle is an animal that can change its body temperature, the body temperature of a turtle changes slowly and often follows the temperature of the air.
They often swim in the bottom of rivers, streams, lagoons, lakes, ponds ... dive well, can swim at the bottom of the water for hours smearing the turtle's throat with many blood vessels. Turtles crawl quickly and go far past the dyke into the lagoon, or from pond to pond.
Moreover, turtles are voracious but slow growing. They breathe through their lungs, the main river in the water, prefer to burrow into the burrows on the rocky embankments, they often concentrate in the river sections adjacent to the mouths of canals and canals leading water into the fields. When it is quiet at night, the tortoise usually crawls, while during the day he tucks his head into the water, sometimes crawling ashore.
Turtles are as aggressive as many other carnivores, but are timid, turtles can often run buried when hearing noises or silhouettes of people and animals passing by. When hungry, they could eat each other, sometimes one was burned blood, the others cruelly bite.
