So friends, there are a number of animals in the world. Do you know an animal that can be alive for a longer time as compared to all other animals is a tortoise?

So in this article I will tell you some interesting facts about tortoises that have not been heard by you before now. This article will be very interesting for you, because you will get new information about tortoises. So let’s start the article,

Fact 1

Tortoises are located on Earth from the last 20 million years. It has been heard about tortoises that they arrived on earth before the crocodile and other animals. And according to some people, they were on the surface of earth even before all kinds of birds. The tortoises that live in hot areas are light in color and the tortoises that live in cold areas have dark colors.

You can distinguish between male and female tortoises through their skin cover. Tortoises can stop breathing for a long duration of time. As they can stop breathing for a long time that’s why they keep their head inside the cover.

Fact 2

When tortoises hide themselves under their cover, before hiding their body they have to release gases from their lungs. You may have observed that when tortoises hide themselves they release gases from their lungs and then hide their head under the cover.

There are more than 320 kinds of tortoises in the world. Among these kinds of tortoises, there are some kinds that survive on the surface of earth whereas there are some kinds that survive inside the water. A female tortoise lay eggs ranges from 1 to 30. It takes about 90 to 130 days to birth the baby tortoise from the egg.

Tortoise walks very slowly that’s why the tortoise is also called a slow animal. As you all are familiar to the story about Rabbit and tortoise. Indeed, the tortoise was the winner of the race but actually the speed of rabbit is fast than the speed of tortoise.

Fact 3

Tortoise utters sound during breeding. Without breeding time, they do not utter any sounds. The cover of the tortoises is very strong even though it cannot be broken by a bullet or a gun. The cover of the tortoise is very strong because it is made up of bones of 50 different types. If you want to break the cover of a tortoise then you need to have a weight of more than 2.5 hundred kilograms more than the weight of the tortoise to break its cover.

The most interesting thing about tortoises is if you want to keep their body separate from the brain yet they can stay alive for 5 to 6 months. There are some kinds of tortoises that can be alive for 200 to 300 years. Tortoises are located everywhere in the world except Antarctica.

Fact 4

There are some tortoises in the world that only eat meat. But most tortoises eat both meat as well as plants. The tortoises that belong to castle areas can store a lot of water and then they use this water, where there is the lack of water. So friends it was an amazing article that you have really enjoyed.

In this article I have told you all facts about tortoises and I am hopeful that you have really enjoyed all the facts about tortoises. The information you got from this article will be enough for you to know deeply about tortoises but if you still have any questions related to this article you can ask in the comment section. You will be replied fast.

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