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What do turtles eat? Detailed answer
Directory / Big encyclopedia. Questions for quiz and self-education Did you know? What do turtles eat? Turtles have many unusual features, but they eat fairly routinely. In truth, most turtles eat just about anything. This depends, of course, on the specific type of turtle. The caiman tortoise, meeting with which does not bode well, is a fairly good hunter. She eats mostly fish, frogs and even ducks! The water turtle, which people themselves were not averse to feasting on, feeds best under water. She eats insects, tadpoles and fish. The tortoise of the kistudo family, which in English is called the "box turtle", because it can completely hide in its shell, like in a box, and which is the link between water and land turtles, prefers to spend most of its time on the land. But on hot summer days, she really likes to cool off in the water. When she is on the ground, she moves through the forest in search of mushrooms and berries, which she feeds on. The land steppe tortoise digs a deep hole for itself in the dry, barren ground and sits in it during the day. When the sun goes down, she gets out and goes in search of her favorite food - fruits and green vegetation. But what do turtles do in winter when their food supplies are depleted? Like all other reptiles, turtles living in temperate zones hibernate. The duration of their sleep depends on the climate. But most turtles can go without food and sleep without waking up from October to March! Aquatic turtles usually burrow into the mud at the bottom of a river or pond. Land tortoises usually hide in the ground to survive the winter. Land tortoises breathe with lungs, and their shell is a "bone box" covered with horny plates or soft skin. This armor is made up of two parts. One covers the back, the other - the lower body of the turtle, its abdomen. In the gap between the two parts, the turtle can stick its head, neck, tail and paws. Turtles have good eyesight, taste and touch, but their hearing organs are very poorly developed. Author: Likum A.
Who was the first to announce that the earth revolves around the sun? Aristarchus of Samos, born in 310 BC. e. - 1800 years before Nicolaus Copernicus. Aristarchus was not only the first to state that the Earth revolves around the fixed Sun, he also calculated the relative sizes and distances between the Earth, the Sun and the Moon and determined that the sky is not a sphere, but the Universe is of practically infinite dimensions. However, his ideas remained without attention. During his lifetime, Aristarchus was known more as a mathematician than an astronomer. We know little about him personally, except that he studied at the Alexandrian Lyceum and was subsequently mentioned by the Roman architect Vitruvius as a man "informed in all branches of science." Aristarchus also invented the semicircular sundial. Only one of his works has survived to this day - "On the Sizes and Distances of the Sun and Moon". Unfortunately, Aristarchus' theory of the solar center is not mentioned in it. And we know about all this from a single remark in the texts of Aristotle, where the conclusions of Aristarchus are mentioned only in order to disagree with them. Of course, Copernicus knew about Aristarchus of Samos, it is not for nothing that he repays his debt in the epoch-making work for its time, On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres. However, when the book was printed in 1514, all references to the far-sighted Greek were carefully erased from the text - probably the publisher was simply afraid that they might undermine the book's claims to originality.
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