牟氏水龜是隱祕的  晝行性 動物，大部分時間都待在泥土裡，而在冬天的幾個月中，則處於冬眠狀態。牠屬於雜食性動物，主要以小型無脊椎動物為食。繁殖率低，雌性每年只產下一窩蛋，平均三顆蛋。幼龜通常生長快速，在4至10歲之間便能達到性成熟。
In one case , a family of fork-marked lemurs exhibited mobbing behavior when they encountered a Malagasy tree boa .  Diurnal raptors , such as the Madagascar buzzard ( `` Buteo brachypterus '' ) and Madagascar cuckoo-hawk ( `` Aviceda madagascariensis '' ) hunt these lemurs at dusk , and the hunting behavior of the Madagascar harrier-hawk ( `` Polyboroides radiatus '' ) suggests it might extract them from their sleeping holes .
两词在上述语境中含义相同。