Peacocks, as we should all know, are a beautiful bird. When we go to the zoo to see the peacock, we all hope that it will open the screen, so that the beauty of its feathers will be vividly displayed. Now, there is such a turtle, we call it peacock turtle, the whole people Burmese peacock turtle, produced in southern Myanmar, because the black spots on the turtle's back armor resemble the eye spots on the peacock's tail feathers.
Peacock turtles are rarely seen in the market, due to the small number of existing populations and high conservation levels, belonging to the appendix category, making them rarely appear in the domestic pet market. Just when a turtle friend asked, I think it is a very beautiful turtle, but this appearance problem is that the benevolent person sees the wise. Since we have talked about it, we may as well know about the peacock turtle.
Peacock turtles are a small aquatic turtle, although it is small, but the adult can also reach 20-25 cm, which is not very small. And when the turtle is young, the back is still very tall, which is the high back that everyone likes. Peacock turtle has the advantage of being an authentic vegetarian, but it saves a lot of trouble for your feeding. It is vegan, after all, in the water turtle, vegan turtle species are rare. Most of the turtles we see are omnivorous, eating both meat and vegetarian food, and even more inclined to meat food. In particular, green vegetable leaves are preferred, such as sweet potato leaves, oil wheat vegetables, lettuce, etc., all of which are OK.
Of course, it is a tropical turtle and cannot hibernate. And vegetarian it, can not save enough fat for the winter, or have to heat up to continue feeding is. Although it is vegetarian, the growth rate is not slow.
To say that the characteristics, the peacock turtle appearance is not a very high kind, or that, the baby turtle value is higher than the adult turtle. But the number of individuals is scarce, or it must be well protected. Although it is a variety of Appendix I to the Convention on International Trade, Myanmar does not seem to be in the contracting state, so it can be eaten freely in its own country, just like the tide turtle, almost out of food. But once it is smuggled into the territory of the State party, it is illegal. Therefore, the national borders are different, the legal constraints are not the same, we still have to abide by the laws of our own country. Although some turtle friends are interested in it, we still don't want to "take risks".
Peacock turtles are indeed rare, the information is not very rich, Xiaobian can only popularize science to this place. Hopefully, more turtle species can be effectively artificially bred so that we have access to more species. After all, there are hundreds of turtle species in the world, and the common ones we come into contact with are only a few dozen.