{"id":9870,"date":"2020-09-07T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-06T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kurtsafari.com\/serrated-hinged-terrapin\/"},"modified":"2025-05-15T10:22:48","modified_gmt":"2025-05-15T08:22:48","slug":"serrated-hinged-terrapin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kurtsafari.com\/uk\/kruger-national-park-news\/kruger-park-reptile-guide\/serrated-hinged-terrapin\/","title":{"rendered":"Serrated Hinged Terrapin"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Name<\/h2>\n<p>Serrated Hinged Terrapin<\/p>\n<h2>Appearance<\/h2>\n<p>The Serrated hinged terrapin is the largest hinged terrapin in the world. The shell is uniformly black in colour with a yellow centered pattern that is sharply defined by black markings. The Turtle\u2019s actual body is an olive green colour.\u00a0 It has a flat and wide head with eyes positioned more forwards on its head.<\/p>\n<h2>Diet<\/h2>\n<p>These terrapins feed primarily on aquatic prey like small fish, frogs, crabs, fruit, and snails.<\/p>\n<h2>Distribution<\/h2>\n<p>The Serrated Hinged Terrapin prefers tropical East Africa from Victoria Falls and Zambesi River, to the South of Zululand.<\/p>\n<h2>Breeding<\/h2>\n<p>A single female lays 7 \u2013 25 eggs about 500m from the water\u2019s edge between October and January and hatch from March to April.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Name Serrated Hinged Terrapin Appearance The Serrated hinged terrapin is the largest hinged terrapin in the world. The shell is uniformly black in colour with a yellow centered pattern that is sharply defined by black markings. The Turtle\u2019s actual body is an olive green colour.\u00a0 It has a flat and wide head with eyes positioned [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9872,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[129],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-kruger-park-reptile-guide"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kurtsafari.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kurtsafari.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kurtsafari.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kurtsafari.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kurtsafari.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kurtsafari.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9870\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kurtsafari.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kurtsafari.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kurtsafari.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kurtsafari.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}