The Turtle Test Number 1 - Answers
1) Chicken Turtle
2) Russian Tortoise
3) "Wheee"
4) Baltimore Terrapins
5) Marco Polo/Chinese Alligator
6) Diamondback Terrapin. Sprits used in cooking were hard to obtain
7) perhaps as few as 5-10 years
8) You bet.
Several captive ones which are well past 150 years are still alive and
healthy
9) Diamondback Terrapin, Suwannee Cooter, Painted Terapin
(Callagar), River Terrapin (Batagur)
10) Leatherbacks
11) Well over half
the world's turtles are currently at some level of conservation concern.
So how did you do? Next test to appear here in April 2001.
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