Small soft-shelled turtles can eat pork. Soft-shelled turtles are aquatic omnivores and like to eat animal bait. Young turtles feed on aquatic insects, water worms, tadpoles and shrimps. Adult soft-shelled turtles eat snails, clams and other mollusks, fish, shrimps and animal carcasses (because they can't catch fish), and also eat plant feed such as vegetables, fruits and miscellaneous grains.

Soft-shelled turtle is an amphibian, breathing with lungs, so there should be enough land beach around or in the center of the soft-shelled turtle pond for it to carry out land activities. The living habits of turtles can be summarized as "three joys and three fears", that is, they like quietness and fear of shock, yang and wind, and cleanliness and fear of dirt. Soft-shelled turtle is sensitive to the sound of surrounding environment. As long as there is a slight movement around, soft-shelled turtle can quickly dive into the bottom mud.

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Appearance characteristics of soft-shelled turtle: Some places in the south are called Tanyu and Jiayu. Its head is like a turtle, but its back armor has no stripes like a turtle, and its edge has a soft skirt, and its shell is softer than that of a turtle. Dark green in color.

It is oval in shape, flatter than a turtle. It has a soft outer membrane on its back and abdomen armor, and a delicate skirt around it. Its head, neck and limbs can stretch and contract, and each limb has five claws, so it is agile in crawling. From the appearance and color, the turtle usually has a dark green back and limbs, and some have a light brown back and a red belly.

The shell of Trionyx sinensis is different from that of other turtles in that the bone shell has no peripheral bone plate, high-texture surface layer, angular external bone plate and loosely connected abdomen (abdominal nail). The trunk is slightly oval, the snout is long, the nostrils are open at the snout, and there is bony nail on the back.

The limbs are short and slightly flat, and they are five-toed, with webbed membranes between the toes. Generally, the tail of the female body does not reach the outer edge of the skirt, and most of the males extend out of the skirt. Some giant turtles can reach more than one meter.

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