Diamondbacked Terrapin

    A terrapin is an air-breathing, slow-growing turtle, which is a reptile.  The terrapin takes seven or eight years just to grow 5 inches. They eat crabs, clams, snails, and other water creatures. Sometimes a large terrapin will eat ducklings. The female is larger than the male. She lays 8 to 20 egga each year in the sand. It takes two months for them to hatch. Then the babies have to crawl back to the water. Terrapins hibernate in the winter.