Danny Boling ☮️<p>Happy <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/WorldTurtleDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WorldTurtleDay</span></a>! :HappyTurtle: Yay! ❤️ </p><p>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 <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/turtles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>turtles</span></a> are <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/tortoises" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tortoises</span></a>.</p><p>One way to tell them apart is by where it lives. A <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/turtle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>turtle</span></a> lives mostly in <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/water" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>water</span></a>, while a <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/tortoise" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tortoise</span></a> is a <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/land" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>land</span></a> animal. </p><p>Some people use the terms interchangeably but technically that's not always correct. </p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/IlaLoetscher" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IlaLoetscher</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Environment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Environment</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Conservation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Conservation</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/IAmDB" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IAmDB</span></a></p>