The Painted Turtle or Chrysernys Picta (reptile)By: Jason Kim and Mark Ballard

Basic Sizes

Female painted turtles are more bigger ranging from 6 to 7 inches

Males are smaller then females ranging from 5- 6 inches

The painted turtle is large and a multi - cellular organism

Reproduction

Painted turtles sexually produce

Internal production

Painted turtles are produced internally in a shell for 72-80 days

Development

Painted turtles have internal development as the embryo develops in the egg

Number produced

Produces 10 to 20 eggs per reproduction event depending on size and maturity

Offsprings

Produces 10 to 20 eggs at a time every reproduction event and can add up to 100 eggs in total in 1 year up many do not survive

Hatching

For the painted turtles to hatch it takes 72 days to 80 days to develop enough to hatch

Care for Painted turtle

The female adult typically takes care of the eggs for most of the time but only for a short brief moment for the eggs to develop and then the baby turtles are on there own to hatch and survive on there own without parental guides what so ever

Courtship

The painted Turtle do engage in courtship to attract each other as the female releases olfactory signals for the males to smell and and be attracted to as the males will attempt impressing the female by extending or bobbin there necks and go far as even slightly biting the female to get there attention

InTerEsTiNg

One interesting facts on painted turtles when on the verge to lay eggs are how they will be picky enough to travel more then 1300 feet around their area to find an area of there liking to lay there eggs