Just think of them as little armored cats. With much bigger litters.
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Just think of them as little armored cats. With much bigger litters.
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Mama, just keep them out of the road!
My usual road-bike route is mostly on rural roads and I see turtles now & again, mostly in a flattened state. A few days ago, I found one in a pre-flattened state and moved him (her?) from the near center to the other side in the direction it seemed to be heading.
Good thing the litters are big because most of the local drivers move too fast to care much.
Ha! Gömböcök!
I don’t like the sound of these ‘boncentration bamps’.
Those guys are probably 2-3 years old. Hatchlings have been characterized as ‘walking ravioli’.
Sell them, shell them, soup them.
Glen Davidson
Eeeee, baby turtles! Serious cute.
CUTE! I love tortoises in the mirning.
Glen,
One of the cookbooks I inherited from my grandmama has a section for turtles. :(
Gammera, The Friend of All Children, approves.
@ Caine
Eeeeek, Nooooooooo! TORTOISES! (Turtles are the one’s that head downhill before rain, while tortoises head uphill. ie If it was a turtle it would be facing the right-hand side of the image…)
They DO move in herds!
(This joke was brought to you from the year 1993.)
Awwwwwww. I <3 tortoises.
Sooo much cuter than cats. :)
#9
I don’t where your from, that’s funny right there!
You win the innernets today
Awwww, herd of tortoises! SO CUTE. I want to share a large container of strawberries with them.
Awful and wonderful: http://youtu.be/4k-l1HLj9Nk
Oh. Interesting.
GOLIATH ONLINE.
Bah, tortoises.
Sorry man, I reckon they trump cephalopod.
@MikeMa (#1)
Drivers are much worse – they intentionally swerve out of their way to flatten animals. A team in Canada did experiments with turtle and snake imitates of made of rubber: http://thestickytongue.org/2012/03/22/study-human-attitudes-towards-herpetofauna/
ralfmuschall: correct. I have seen pictures where one can clearly see the tracks of a car that swerved to kill a turtle.
I am also appalled at similar behaviour of racing cyclists who insist on racing in nature parks and on trails.
One has to wonder how careful the big one is around the little ones. I recall a documentary on sea turtles that says they aren’t.
One female was coming ashore to make a nest and lay eggs on the beach. As she went up the sand, she went right over several baby turtles going down the beach to the water, killing some of them. The narrator said the babies might have even been her own.
its turtles all the way down!
My cat is beginning to feel slightly threatened.
Yup
It
is
me
all
the
way
down.