we live near the woods and a very small creek and my dogs have brought up a turtle. The turtle has been wounded on the shell there is a hole about the size of a dime on lower back shell & the front of the shell where it goes in is chewed up and kind of bloody looking. The turtle is still alive and has been three days now it comes out and moves around so I think that is a plus. I have brought it in and put in a empty fish tank. I don't know what to feed it or do for it could you please help? I live in Alabama and it's getting cold so I want to make sure it's OK before I let it go. A lot of people are saying to kill it but I'm not I love animals and that is not an option. My email address is davinabuck@bellsouth.net

                                          THANKS FOR YOUR HELP

Accuracy of Chart[edit]

This chart seems fairly inaccurate as it is based on opinionated regional terminology which is not factual information rather than scientific terms. --75.67.13.238 (talk) 04:10, 5 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, where I live in the US, fully-terrestrials are always called tortoises.

Turtles have flippers and swim in the ocean, tortoises have clawed feet and may be aquatic or terrestrial.

A fine idea for an image! Accurate for British English at least and a great idea to help clarify the tomato-tomaaateooo turtle-terrapin misunderstanding. Bravo —Preceding unsigned comment added by 61.100.195.216 (talk) 18:35, 17 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

In Australia we have no terrapins so it is not a well known term. Turtles are ocean going with flippers. Tortoise is applied to the aquatic (freshwater) as well as terrestrial species. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 121.218.41.187 (talk) 07:28, 10 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The consensus that seems to be forming is that this image isn't globally correct, and indeed misleading.

The US version is wrong - tortoise is the word used for fully terrestrial turtles, with the exception of the box turtle, which is usually just called a turtle. The person from Austraila also claims the file is inaccurate. So that's 2 out of 3... Lime in the Coconut 18:58, 27 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I agree, the chart seems remarkably incomplete, possibly inaccurate (for the US, at least), is uncited, has the most innacurate name, and is purely decorative (as the text covers the material just fine). I'm going to remove it from the Turtle and Terrapin articles. oknazevad (talk) 23:08, 25 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]