Mary’s Monday Metazoan: Ambition!

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   JohnnieCanuck

   13 February 2012 at 7:21 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

   Looks like it is evolving towards being a whale.

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   Glen Davidson

   13 February 2012 at 7:21 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

   I like apples.

   And the turtle’s as cute as a baby squid.

   Glen Davidson

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   F

   13 February 2012 at 7:41 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

   That’s one kewl metazoan, Mary.

   Now I want to know how big that apple is.

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   'Tis Himself, OM

   13 February 2012 at 8:02 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

   The turtle wants to grow up big and strong like a Humboldt squid. That’s why it’s eating the apple.

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   Cupcake

   13 February 2012 at 8:14 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

   Love it. Look at that little guy go!

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   Therrin

   13 February 2012 at 8:19 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

   Apple core.

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   DLC

   13 February 2012 at 8:24 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

   . . . and Turtle-god tempted turtle with an apple . . .

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   christinelaing

   13 February 2012 at 8:50 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

   All the way down…

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   acronymjim

   13 February 2012 at 8:50 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

   That’s not ambition, that’s winning the turtle lottery! Whoohoo!

   As an aside, it’s also how you fit a square metazoan into a round Maleaen(sp?).

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    christophburschka

    13 February 2012 at 8:52 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

    It’s just missing the four tiny elephants…

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    acronymjim

    13 February 2012 at 9:05 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

    If I didn’t get the equivalent taxonomy of the apple tree right, I apparently got the turtle species wrong. A quick Google search indicates this is a species of pond slider, not box turtle. At least from this angle it looks much less round than the box kind.

    Regardless,it’s still a happy, happy herp.

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    some bastard

    13 February 2012 at 11:04 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

    @ Therrin #6

    Baltimore…

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    firefly

    13 February 2012 at 11:05 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

    Now that’s just cute!

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    jeffbollbach

    14 February 2012 at 12:07 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

    Not to be a dick, but juvenile red eared sliders are decidedly carnivorous. Plus they are anathema to eating above water level. Cute pic for sure, but IMO a fake.

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    Francisco Bacopa

    14 February 2012 at 2:49 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

    Uh, that’s a mostly carnivorous aquatic turtle. Pic is a fake.

    Put a baby tortoise there and it might make sense.

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    pyrion

    14 February 2012 at 2:53 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

    You can see bite traces of a human on the apple. It’s a fake, but a cute one.

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    ButchKitties

    14 February 2012 at 7:53 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

    Stupid apple is just taking up space that could instead be filled with The Cuteness.

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    anuran

    14 February 2012 at 9:52 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

    How about this one instead?

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    anuran

    14 February 2012 at 9:52 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

    (Tortoise and strawberry)

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    ChasCPeterson

    14 February 2012 at 12:56 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

    It’s actually a yellow-bellied slider (Trachemys scripta scripta) rather than the red-eared (T. s. elegans), but they won’t eat apples either.

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    WMDKitty

    14 February 2012 at 4:54 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

    http://icanhascheezburger.com/2012/02/10/funny-pictures-challenge-accepted-2/

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    Sili

    14 February 2012 at 5:53 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

    There you go again, being all fanboi-y.

    Penguins are soooo much more nutritious than apples.

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    Marcus Hill

    15 February 2012 at 3:33 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

    I’ve got four sliders (same species as the infant pictured, but now 6-8 inches along the shell). As noted by previous posters, their favourite diet is far more protein rich, and they eat from the water. Most people don’t realise quite how aquatic they are – mine have a big fish tank with 30 inches of water and 6 inches of air between the cork platforms and the solar lights, and they spend most of their time swimming. A lot of owners keep them in vivaria with only a puddle of water barely big enough to submerge them, let alone allow them to swim properly, and don’t realise that the cute little thing in the photo above can eventually get to be the size of a small dinner plate. If you’re thinking of getting some, get a big fish tank and swap the lights for daylight vivarium tubes!

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    ralfmuschall

    15 February 2012 at 2:39 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

    If Apple’s lawyers find this, sale of turtles will be banned all over Europe for trademark infringement.