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Box Turtle
What to feed a turtle?
Box turtle love green leafy vegetables, a
variety of fruit and an occasional bug or worm.
Our box turtles always have a shallow bowl of rabbit
pellets available, just in case they are hungry after
they have eaten their daily ration of fruits and
vegetable. The trick to keeping box turtle healthy
is to ensure that they have a basking spot of at least
100 degrees and a place to cool off at around 70 degrees
and provide them with a wide variety of food.
There are two types of box turtles found
at Cub Creek Science Camp. These box turtles are;
the Three Toed Box Turtle and the Ornate Box Turtle.
While campers are at summer camp, they will have the
opportunity to go on several animal safari's. On
these hikes campers will look for native animals
including box turtles.
Campers may keep a box turtle that they
find, for the time that they are at camp. To do
this, campers must research the proper care and feeding
of the turtle and take responsibility for it's care.
They must also agree to return it to the place that they
found it, before they leave camp.
Box turtles are housed in the Pentagon,
along with our three tortoise species.
More information on box turtles
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