Box Turtle - Description, Habitat, Image, Diet, and ...
Different species and subspecies of box turtle live across North America and parts of Central America. Their range extends as far north as Maine, and as far south as Florida in the United States. From the east coast, various species range all the way to …
Box Turtle Care Guide (Feeding, Habitat, Handling ...
Most are found in relatively warm environments (e.g. Vietnam, Laos, and China). They like forested areas with lots of shade and some patches of light. In forests they are commonly found amongst wet leaves, logs and stumps around the edge of ponds.
Common Box Turtle - Facts, Diet, Habitat & Pictures on ...
Common box turtles are found in the eastern United States, from Maine and Michigan to eastern Texas and south Florida. They occur in Canada in southern Ontario and in Mexico along the Gulf Coast and in the Yucatán Peninsula.
Box turtle - Wikipedia
Asian box turtles are in serious danger of extinction in their habitat because they are part of the food base of many Asian countries such as China, where they are captured for local food markets despite captive breeding farms. North American box turtles, on the other hand, are endangered by habitat destruction.
Box turtle | Terrapene carolina, Habitat, Diet | Britannica
Terrapene is largely found in cool to warm temperate regions east of the Rocky Mountains from southernmost Canada to the Gulf Coast of the United States and into Mexico. It is strongly terrestrial, although the Coahuilan box turtle (T. coahuila) is semiaquatic.
Eastern Box Turtle - Facts, Diet, Habitat & Pictures on ...
The Eastern box turtle (Terrapene carolina carolina) is a subspecies of the Common box turtle. It is native to the eastern part of the United States and is largely terrestrial. Box turtles are slow crawlers, extremely long-lived, slow to mature, and have relatively few offspring per year.
Eastern Box Turtle - National Wildlife Federation
Eastern box turtles are usually found near ponds, fields, meadows, and woodlands throughout the eastern half of the United States. Although eastern box turtles are native to the eastern United States, they can sometimes be seen in other states.
North American box turtle - Wikipedia
Box turtles are native to North America. The widest distributed species is the common box turtle which is found in the United States (subspecies carolina, major, bauri, triunguis; south-central, eastern, and southeastern parts) and Mexico (subspecies yukatana and mexicana; Yucatán peninsula and northeastern parts).