#tortoise baby

[babyanimalgifs]

I'm not sure who enjoyed it more

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[hometoursandotherstuff]

A remarkable Galapagos giant tortoise defies age, impressing by fathering eight offspring at the age of 70 in a UK zoo.

https://ilovedog.fun/16247/

[zoomclown]

red valley s4 spoilers!!!!

So it seems like everyone is having the same 2 reactions to the first episode of season 4.

Things are going way too well right now where is Bryony fucking Halbech

BABYGIRL??? IM GONNA EXPLODE

[heartnosekid]

captive bred radiata tortoises 🐢 | source

[catboybiologist]

EVERYBODY LOOK AT MY SWEET LITTLE BOY (who is older than I am)

(if you're concerned about the space, yes there's more area behind the divider, this is just his substrate box area)

(also the substrate is coconut fiber and yes it's appropriate for him)

[iconsumeheadcanons]

some turtle origin hcs

this is based on appearance for now. and very small list lol. i just needed to talk about tmnt and herps or i was gonna like explode or smth. PLEASE share ur own ideas if u have any!!!!

i think tumblr will auto-label images posted by another user that reused in-site, but if not i just grab baby tmnt turt pics from forgetful-nerd

2003

either yellow-bellied sliders Trachemys scripta scripta (left) or chinese box turtle Cuora flavomarginata(right)(im leaning more towards cuora here)

->yellow plastrons

->domed shells (espceially like the chinese box for this!)

->both sold as pets (yellow-bellied way more likely since its native-ish and common)

->i heard sliders are very personable (most sliders slip into water if i get within 100ft of them tho so i cannot confirm)

->the box turts are very squort

2012

diamondback terrapins malaclemys terrapin!! you cannot convince me otherwise tbh (but i love to hear more hcs too!!)

->look at the goofy shape of those legs. look at that. just like the 3d models

->spots, swirls, pale coloring(but there are ones that match the color of the brothers better, they arent all pale white)

->flat ovular shape shell that is bulky

->popular pets, typically ppl get more than one at a time, and somewhat native to the region as they live in brackish/coastal habitats (fitting for turts who regularly swim in flooded areas and eat algae and worm based meals for like....15ish years)

->(they would be carnivorous if they were purely turtle btw)(also eating algae isnt really too weird. prolly strange how they do it since they seem to eat it fresh? but ppl eat seaweed and algae based broths all the time; i.e. most stuff in japan actually!)

->pls look at pics of these, theyre so unique as a species, have fun personalities, and look so stinking silly

->oh and dee said one ep that they were either (eastern?) box turtles or diamondbacks. i think they have very little in common w terrapene carolina carolina

2023

STINKPOTS aka musk turtles!!!!!!!! i havent picked out a particular one (and there are many!) but LOOK AT IT ASDLFKJASDFKLJDSF

->ALL of them look exactly this goofy. they only get GOOFIER with age. spectacular

->so small. please understand. size of a pea kinda creature (only exaggerating a bit). they hatch the size of a coin and reach adult size of smaller than a human hand. i have held one before. this is not exaggerating. i have "medically small" hands as well. (if anyone could explain what my neuromusc doc meant by that btw that would be cool to know. i just know it means i cant reach the enter key on my laptop w/o moving my whole arm over too)

->stinky:teenage boys going to public school blah blah that joke i guess

->looks exactly like how i imagine donnies scream would look like if it manifested as a real turtle

->some ppl have them as pets, kinda rare tho. the turts are VERY common in my experience. usually in wetlands foresty environments. if there are some native to illinois i dont see why they wouldnt be fucking around some parking lot drainage pond in new york

->great mixture of looking fat and squishy and also looking like a child growing into their long limbs. good silly shapes

->look like little treats to snack on like gum <3

^mikey giving his first stand up performance at comedy club

[megarahmoon]

🐢🌼

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[bigpappahope]

Teeny tiny baby gopher tortoise

[stimboardboy]

turtle eating a clover

[thewhimsyturtle]

Mom, why is it still so cold in April?!? I demand towel snuggles until spring makes a proper appearance!

[fagsex]

it should be said that some of you are way too dorky about laika

[tortoisebore]

saw this and immediately thought of remus in chapter 10 when he was ice skating 😭 her @ is @ maileigh_p

LMAOOOO omfg i saw this yesterday i’m in those likes 🤭🤭 this is soooo him like imagine this but a person somehow ganglier, with less control of their limbs, & maybe on the verge of tears 🤩

[hometoursandotherstuff]

[jackalsworth]

i've been playing quite a bit of planet zoo recently and i got this achievement the other day:

this in itself isn't particularly notable - one-fifth of steam players also have it, after all - but i needed to share three facts about my zoo that made this achievement possible in my case fact one: juvenile animals, in the game's simulation, don't upset the social balance of the habitat they're in, so as long as you can keep them fed and active everyone's happy

fact two: tortoise babies take fifty or sixty in-game years to mature

fact three: the two pairs of different tortoise species i got at the beginning of my zoo will

not

stop

fucking

[daily-capybara-love]

day #13

silly capybara made a friend! 🐢

[merry-melody]