The Hawksbill Turtle mainly lives in clear streams in the mountains. In the swamps, pools, rivers and fields are also frequented, generally more active at night, can climb stone walls or climb trees, through the support of the tail can climb walls and branches larger than their own length. According to the observation of indoor feeding: during the day, it mostly lurks in the water of the pool, and starts to move at dusk, and sometimes it will climb out of the pool to move on the sand. Field observation: mostly seen at dusk and early morning hours. We speculate that during the day it may lurk under water or rocks in streams.

The hawksbill turtle is a typical carnivorous animal; especially like to eat live bait, in the wild, mainly prey on snails, earthworms, small fish, snails, shrimp, frogs, etc., but also eat dead fish and shrimp and animal offal, do not eat plant feed; indoor rearing, can also be fed to the eel, loach, small crustaceans, rodent meat, pork, as well as other turtles; in the time of feeding on the non-selective, like to eat in the water, relying on its It likes to eat in the water, relying on its front claws and strong upper and lower jaws to tear the food and swallow it with the help of the front claws.

When the water temperature drops below 10℃ around November every year, it enters hibernation, and will not wake up until the water temperature rises to around 15℃ in the following year. If this turtle is kept in captivity, it should be fattened up before hibernation, because its ability to tolerate hunger is poorer than that of ordinary turtles (according to feeding observation, if it is not fed for about 1 month during the active season, it will die). Indoor rearing of hawksbill turtles mostly hibernate in pools; in the wild, mostly hibernate in stone caves with water flow.

The Hawksbill turtle has long claws and legs, and crawls very fast, 7 to 8 meters per minute. Swimming ability is also very strong, in the water, the end of the tail up, limbs paddling, swimming freely.