Our pet Red Ear Sliders often will start a nest hole & abandon it if rocks or roots make digging difficult.
Digging is done by the hind legs & our smaller turtle (6" long shell) will dig a hole 2 or 3" in diameter & 6" deep.
Our turtles will keep searching for new spots to dig for several days & we find ourselves following them for a few hours at a time. When they have a good hole, they lay 4-13 eggs, tamp them down, cover with earth & pack it carefully. They often repeat the act a week later. They choose different spots each time & vary between gravel, sand, lawn, garden, forest floor. They refuse to accept a nest box in the house.
Snapping turtles seem to prefer nest holes in gravel on the shoulder of roads. Sea turtles dig in sand beaches.
No, only female turtles have the reproductive anatomy to lay eggs. Male turtles do not lay eggs; instead, they fertilize the eggs that are laid by the females.
A male and a female will mate to produce young.
No, male turtles can lay eggs.
Male parakeets cannot lay eggs--only females can.
Females don't fertilize eggs it is the male that fertilizes the eggs
no the only male animal that can lay eggs are sea horses
yes
females
no male sea turtles can also lay eggs when they are mid-aged.
when the seahorses are mating the female seahorse puts about 1500 eggs into the male seahorses pouch. The male seahorse carries the eggs for 4 to 45 days and then releases the seahorses into the water and leaves them.
Males of any species do not lay eggs.
Well, since both amphibians and reptiles lay eggs, and frogs are amphibians and turtles are reptiles, both should lay eggs. Of couse, if it is a male frog or male turtle, it is not going to lay eggs. :)