Predation or Starvation
What are the relationships of a wood turtle? (Who's food is it to eat? What's their food?)
The wood turtles a secondary consumer, it eats berries or other animals. Large frogs, skunks, raccoons and other tertiary consumers that will eat the secondary consumer which in this case is the wood turtle.
Is the wood turtle a predator, prey or both?
Wood turtles get eaten by their predators or are a prey to their predators. On the other hand, they are a predator to other animals such as worm and other insects. The producers are their preys. So yes, the wood turtle is both, a predator and prey.
Does this impact your species ability to survive?
In some ways, yes it does, but in other cases no, it does not. The other predators, will eat the wood turtles, so in this case it does affect the wood turtle's ability to survive. There are so many more ways the wood turtle is becoming an extinction, for example, when people are chopping down trees, wood turtles may be blended in on the trees and many people do not look for turtles when they chop down the trees. When the tree falls down, it's not living anymore, along with the turtle that fell with the tree. This is just one out of many that the wood turtle is not surviving as much.
The wood turtles a secondary consumer, it eats berries or other animals. Large frogs, skunks, raccoons and other tertiary consumers that will eat the secondary consumer which in this case is the wood turtle.
Is the wood turtle a predator, prey or both?
Wood turtles get eaten by their predators or are a prey to their predators. On the other hand, they are a predator to other animals such as worm and other insects. The producers are their preys. So yes, the wood turtle is both, a predator and prey.
Does this impact your species ability to survive?
In some ways, yes it does, but in other cases no, it does not. The other predators, will eat the wood turtles, so in this case it does affect the wood turtle's ability to survive. There are so many more ways the wood turtle is becoming an extinction, for example, when people are chopping down trees, wood turtles may be blended in on the trees and many people do not look for turtles when they chop down the trees. When the tree falls down, it's not living anymore, along with the turtle that fell with the tree. This is just one out of many that the wood turtle is not surviving as much.