I know all turtles have lungs and need to breathe out of water like whales and dolphins but do all love water? even land tortoises??
2007-11-16 07:43:49 · 10 answers · asked by charles.2345 1 in Pets ➔ Reptiles
no not land tortoises because they breath air with lungs- their skin is dry.touch one and see how dry it feels they dont go in the water but they drink it
2007-11-16 07:53:01 · answer #1 · answered by pugs5678 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Turtles have lungs and breathe air like all other reptiles (although at least one species can supplement their breathing in another way).
True tortoises can not swim and will sink in water. They can hold thier breath under water for some time.
They DO need a good steady water source, however.
2007-11-17 22:19:39 · answer #2 · answered by Madkins007 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
They need drinking water and may like to sit in water but they don"t need to swim. Don't worry about deep water, though. How do you think the turtles got to the Galapagos Islands? Cruise ship?
2007-11-17 22:04:02 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Some land turtles like to wade in water but you have to be careful to keep the water level low enough so that they will not drown. It depends on their particular tastes, though.
2007-11-16 19:38:17 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymoose 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
My box turtles love to sit in shallow water in the sink or bathtub. They can't be fully submersed in it but they do enjoy taking a bath and sticking their head under the water. I don't know about other kinds of land turtles but box turtles need to sit in water sometimes to cleanse their skin and stimulate digestion.
2007-11-16 15:56:38 · answer #5 · answered by KT 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Land Tortoises need a bowl of water to go into to drink, they also need their cage to be misted every day.
2007-11-17 22:23:57 · answer #6 · answered by Jen 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No the tortoise dose not go in the water and should never have a bowl where they are able to submerse themselves below the water.
The only time they can go in the water is if they have a bladder problem and find it hard to go to the toilet then you would hold them in a tank of warm water and hold them there for about 10min then this will make them go to the toilet.
(NEVER ALLOW A TORTOISE TO PUT THEIR HEAD UNDER WATER AS THEY WILL DROWN!!!)
2007-11-16 16:52:52 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
These turtles aren't equipped to swim & don't intentionally get into any type of deep water.
2007-11-16 16:11:28 · answer #8 · answered by Toe Cutter 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
they might wade in shallow water, but they won't actualy swim. they're more adapted to desert terain.
2007-11-16 15:55:32 · answer #9 · answered by me 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋
to cool off yeah not to swim though
2007-11-16 16:29:48 · answer #10 · answered by Ian B 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋