{"id":94403,"date":"2022-04-22T12:17:00","date_gmt":"2022-04-22T12:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/animalshelterz.com\/do-turtles-have-brown-shells\/"},"modified":"2022-04-22T12:17:00","modified_gmt":"2022-04-22T12:17:00","slug":"do-turtles-have-brown-shells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/animalshelterz.com\/do-turtles-have-brown-shells\/","title":{"rendered":"Do turtles have brown shells?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_17 counter-hierarchy counter-decimal ez-toc-grey\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-title-toggle\"><a class=\"ez-toc-pull-right ez-toc-btn ez-toc-btn-xs ez-toc-btn-default ez-toc-toggle\" style=\"display: none;\"><i class=\"ez-toc-glyphicon ez-toc-icon-toggle\"><\/i><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<nav><ul class=\"ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1\"><li class=\"ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2\"><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/animalshelterz.com\/do-turtles-have-brown-shells\/#Do_turtles_have_brown_shells\" title=\"Do turtles have brown shells?\">Do turtles have brown shells?<\/a><\/li><li class=\"ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2\"><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/animalshelterz.com\/do-turtles-have-brown-shells\/#What_is_the_Colour_of_a_turtle\" title=\"What is the Colour of a turtle?\">What is the Colour of a turtle?<\/a><\/li><li class=\"ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2\"><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/animalshelterz.com\/do-turtles-have-brown-shells\/#Why_is_my_turtles_shell_brown\" title=\"Why is my turtle&#8217;s shell brown?\">Why is my turtle&#8217;s shell brown?<\/a><\/li><li class=\"ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2\"><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/animalshelterz.com\/do-turtles-have-brown-shells\/#Is_a_turtle_shell_brown_or_green\" title=\"Is a turtle shell brown or green?\">Is a turtle shell brown or green?<\/a><\/li><li class=\"ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2\"><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-5\" href=\"https:\/\/animalshelterz.com\/do-turtles-have-brown-shells\/#What_color_is_a_turtle_shell\" title=\"What color is a turtle shell?\">What color is a turtle shell?<\/a><\/li><li class=\"ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2\"><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-6\" href=\"https:\/\/animalshelterz.com\/do-turtles-have-brown-shells\/#What_is_brown_tortoise_shell\" title=\"What is brown tortoise shell?\">What is brown tortoise shell?<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Do_turtles_have_brown_shells\"><\/span>Do turtles have brown shells?<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Turtle shells come in many different colors. However, <b>common shell colorations include olive-green, tan, brown and black. For example, turtles species such as the sliders have olive-green or brown carapaces. The plastron is usually lightly colored.<\/b><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"What_is_the_Colour_of_a_turtle\"><\/span>What is the Colour of a turtle?<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Most turtles are <b>green, dark or light brown, or brownish-gray colored, and have a huge variety of patterns on their shells ranging from circles to stripes to hieroglyphs, which can be a multitude of colors like red, yellow, orange, black, or white.<\/b><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Why_is_my_turtles_shell_brown\"><\/span>Why is my turtle&#8217;s shell brown?<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><b>As they develop into adults and age, their shells often become dark green, brown, and black. Thus, it is perfectly normal and healthy for your turtle&#8217;s color to change over time. You should expect this.<\/b><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Is_a_turtle_shell_brown_or_green\"><\/span>Is a turtle shell brown or green?<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Coloration. Depending on the species, sea turtles&#8217; color range can be olive-green, yellow, greenish-brown, reddish-brown, or black in color. <b>Some green turtles and hawksbills have shells patterned with streaks and blotches of brown or black<\/b><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"What_color_is_a_turtle_shell\"><\/span>What color is a turtle shell?<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>The scutes can be brightly colored in some species, but the basal color is a <b>grey to dark brown color dorsally; the plastral scutes are often white to yellow in base color.<\/b><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"What_is_brown_tortoise_shell\"><\/span>What is brown tortoise shell?<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Semi-transparent or translucent material of mottled patterns of brown pigmentation, obtained from the enlarged scales or plates that form the protective outer shell of certain species of tropical and sub-tropical marine turtles.<\/p>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Table of Contents Do turtles have brown shells?What is the Colour of a turtle?Why is my turtle&#8217;s shell brown?Is a turtle shell brown or green?What color is a turtle shell?What is brown tortoise shell? Do turtles have brown shells? Turtle shells come in many different colors. However, common shell colorations include olive-green, tan, brown and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/animalshelterz.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94403"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/animalshelterz.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/animalshelterz.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/animalshelterz.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/animalshelterz.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/animalshelterz.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94403\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/animalshelterz.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/animalshelterz.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/animalshelterz.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}