How to catch soft-shell turtles in winter

Although soft-shell turtles like to live in humid places, soft-shell turtles prefer to live in sunny places. After all, winter is inherently cold, and only warmer conditions in sunny places can help soft-shell turtles successfully survive hibernation. Therefore, experienced people will first look for sunny places. Although soft-shell turtles hibernate, they are not completely in hibernation. They just no longer need food and stay quietly in their caves.

The turtle's cave is either in the water or in the mud. These places are not suitable for breathing. Turtles cannot actually breathe underwater. They just hold their breath for a long time and have to come up to breathe every once in a while.

So in most cases, turtles will choose to hibernate under the mud, and then leak out their noses. There are two holes in the nostrils of turtles, which are of average size. Experienced people can identify them at a glance, and can easily catch turtles.

Extended information:

Life habits can be simply summarized as "three joys and three fears", that is: they like cleanliness and fear dirt, they like sun and fear wind, and they like tranquility and fear shock. In the natural environment, soft-shell turtles like to inhabit clean rivers, lakes, reservoirs, ponds and other waters.

On calm days, people often lie down on the sunny shore to bask in the sun (commonly known as basking on their backs). They use the ultraviolet rays in the sun to kill pathogenic bacteria on the body surface, promote the healing of the injured body surface, and through basking on their backs Increase body temperature and promote food digestion.

Turtles are very timid and sensitive to sounds and movement of objects in the surrounding environment. They will dive into the water at the slightest sign of disturbance. Turtles are ferocious and aggressive by nature, and bullying among groups is common. When food is scarce, they will cannibalize their own species. During its growth period, it mainly breathes through its lungs. When the water temperature falls below 15°C, the turtle dives into the mud at the bottom of the pond and begins hibernation, relying on auxiliary respiratory organs such as gill-like tissues in its throat to breathe.

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