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I am now listening to A Simple Way to Go Faster Than Light That Does Not Work by Tortoise #Tortoise
https://www.last.fm/music/Tortoise/_/A+Simple+Way+to+Go+Faster+Than+Light+That+Does+Not+Work

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#dwwilliamson #dww #cartoonist #comic #comics #comicart #cartoon #cartoons #illustration #illustrator #drawing #art #artist #comicart #humor #ink #tortoise #homeonyourback #mrbigstuff

Tortoise wearing a small hat and smoking a cigar.

Was, gestern war Weltschildkrötentag und keiner hat mir was gesagt?

#nature #naturephotography #tortoise #turtle #reptiles

Portrait einer griechischen Landschildkröte. Links im Bild ist ihr verwitterter Panzer zu sehen, ihr Kopf ist im Zentrum des Bildes und schaut richtung Kamera. Sehr deutlich ist ihre schuppige Haut zu erkennen, besonders am Vorderbein

Today is one day after #WorldTurtleDay 🙀🐾 How could we miss this. Last year during #hedgewatch on the #Seychelles my humans could watch this impressive #turtle on the island #Moyenne

#tortoise #AnimalWelfare #travel #reptiles #animal

For when #WorldTurtleDay falls on a #FrogFriday 🐢🐸:
Paul Wayland Bartlett (USA, 1865-1925)
#Frog on #Tortoise, c.1915
Bronze
On display at Washington County Museum of Fine Arts, MD

photo of the sculpture on display at museum, front view; frog sitting on top of a tortoise

photo of the sculpture on display at museum, side view

Happy #WorldTurtleDay! :HappyTurtle: Yay! ❤️

Did you know that all tortoises are in fact turtles — they belong to the order Testudines or Chelonia (reptiles having bodies encased in a bony shell) — but not all #turtles are #tortoises.

One way to tell them apart is by where it lives. A #turtle lives mostly in #water, while a #tortoise is a #land animal.

Some people use the terms interchangeably but technically that's not always correct.

#IlaLoetscher #Environment #Conservation #IAmDB

It's a cutaway photo of an unknown species of tortoise that clearly shows that turtles aren't "in" their shells — they ARE their shells.

The specimen is large and stark, sitting on a white table in a white room, perhaps a museum. It's been vertically bisected, front to back. Along the top of the animal, you can't really see the scutes that make up the beautiful shell we normally see. It's just a thin brown veneer over the white domed skeleton, the carapace. Hanging from nder that, the backbone looks like scaffolding. At two points, one in front and one at the back of the animal, are "arm" and "leg" bones attached to the dome on one end and have feet on the other, hinged at the "elbow" and "knee" just above the boney underside of the animal, called the plastron. The tortoise walked on its toes, differentiating it from turtles, which walk on the bottom of their webbed feet. Between the "shoulder blades" there's a long boney neck that looks like heavy duty chain links, in this photo at least. At the end of the neck, the head is egg-shaped. Its mouth is closed and we can see one large eye socket.

Below the specimen, a sign says:

"Reptiles in a box
"A tortoise’s shell is made of two bony parts - the plastron on the underside and the carapace on the upperside. Large horny scales, called scutes, cover the bones of the shell. The middle part of the backbone is fused to the shell, leaving the bones of the neck and tail free."

It's a photo of environmental activist, conservationist, and world famous turtle hugger Ila Loetscher (https://w.wiki/EGX7), AKA The Turtle Lady, standing on a beach, with waves and a blue sky behind her, holding a costumed sea turtle in her arms, like one would a baby. She appears to be rubbing noses with the animal. She's got gray, wind-blown hair and is wearing a red and black sweater. The turtle, wearing a knitted red and white striped sweater and a festive matching hat, has one flipper on the woman's shoulder. The photo is signed in the upper left and says "Love from the Turtles and Ila".

A person stands in a large but shallow indoor pool of water that comes up to about his knees. Behind him is a small blue bucket filled with water, sitting on the pool floor. The man, wearing shorts and a dark t-shirt, is bending over with his right arm in the water — which has hundreds of very small baby turtles swimming in it. They're all just floating around and so sweet looking! They're tiny and cute and they're all around him! ❤ The caption says "I would never leave this job."

Summer 1990. Paris, France. Unknown camera, Kodak Gold Plus 100 film.

Happy #WorldTurtleDay! 🐢 This is an Aldabra giant tortoise in Ménagerie du Jardin des plantes in Paris. (Sadly, this is the only photo of a live turtle I've ever taken. I really should visit the zoos here in Finland someday!)

#photo #paris #france #filmphotography #turtle #tortoise #animals

Aldabra Giant Tortoise resting next to a wooden shelter in a grassy zoo enclosure, with a metal railing in the foreground.

@publicdomainrev @photography

Rescued Indian star tortoises, Malaysia

#tortoise
#AnimalRescue

@publicdomainrev @photography

A Giant Tortoise, Galapagos

#tortoise

Foooooood! 🐢

#tortoise #reptiles

A tortoise standing beside a heap of dandelions bigger than itself stretches it's neck, mouth agape, to bite a leaf at the top of the pile.

Painting on paper, 20 x 30 cm: Ambiguous impulses for your mental cinema!
#kunst #contemporaryArt #mentalCinema #analogArt #painting #rubberStamp #reliefPrinting #saveBioDiversity #climateActionNow #systemChange #endFossilFuels #makeArtNotWar #noAFD #NoRacism #NoFascism #humanRights #humanDignity #Нетвойны #walkAway #turningAway #despair #wondering #frustration #tortoise #turtles #emblematy #tobiasMagass #renaissance #baroque #festinaLente #makeHasteSlowly #slowDown #sailing

I saw @RiversideBryan posted up for "Turtle Tuesday."

But, what about Tortoise Tuesday? Is that a thing? Cause I caught a good pic of a huge tortoise at the DC zoo over the weekend.

#Photo #Photography #AndroidPhotography #GalaxyS24 #DC #WashingtonDC #NationalZoo #DCZoo #Tortoise #TortoiseTuesday #Tuesday #TurtleTuesday

Photograph of a large Aldabra tortoise in some grass with sun on its back. There is a brick building behind it partially visible.

Oh, Waldorf. How are you such a klutz?

#tortoise #TortoiseTuesday #redfootedtortoise

A tortoise laying on his side, having tipped himself over. His head is laying on a basking rock and he seems resigned to his fate.

Backpack climbing
#tortoise #Taiwan

Tortoise chillin'
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#animals #tortoise #photo #aquarium #photography #animalsphotography #mobilephotography #europe #copenhagen #denmark

Listened to
#music #records #Tortoise

An agulate tortoise making its way through the grass of the Cape Pensinsula.

#animals #tortoise #wildlife #photography #wildlifephotography #photo #closeup #capetown #southafrica #nature

TIL my neighbours brought their giant 60yo testudo (tortoise? turtle?) in the common garden and now WE (insert communism meme format here) have a giant 60yo testudo (tortoise? turtle)

Extremely cool and also extremely weird.
Nobody expects the Spanish inquisition or a surprise giant turtle!

Pics will follow

#Tortoise #Testudo #Turtle #Pet #Animal #SuddenAnimal

Lots of cute endangered tortoises (Madagascar radiated tortoise) released into the wild! 🐢 https://youtu.be/VoESnuiBH0k

#tortoise #turtle #herps

Blessed #Beltane to all who celebrate. #moonlitpress combines our new moon article
with Beltane.
Not all of life’s most brilliant educators are working in schools. You can learn a lot from a little tortoise, about the size of a half-grapefruit, who just wants to hang out in a sunny spot and be.
Enjoy the story.
https://blog.moonlitpress.org/dinosaur-buddha

#CreativeNonfiction #wordsbyterryl #writing #shortStory #newMoon
#Nature #Love #humor #pagan #turtle #tortoise

#Tortoise

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