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Danny Boling ☮️

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.

A graphic made for World Turtle Day, annually on May 23rd. The image shows a front half profile of a cute tiny turtle on one side. The one eye we can see is dark brown and seems to be staring into our souls. The other has a pink 3D heart on a green background with a caption saying "May 23rd - World Turtle Day"
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."
#IlaLoetscher#Environment#Conservation
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B's wild, wild world 🌱🐛🎼

Today was Teacher Passion Project day at one school. Students were given a list of activities to choose from and got to attend 2 different projects that interested various teachers. My teacher friend chose gardening and asked me to facilitate the sessions. We focused on pollinators and their needs, but while students were counting pollinators, a new garden friend was found.
#Nature will always surprise you!
#Gardening #Turtle @gardening

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Masayuki60 🦮🇯🇵 🇺🇦 🐕🇺🇲📷

Finally we had our first and only walk this weekend. It's so nice to be in nature in the middle of the city of Atlanta. But my phone pinged saying a heavy rain was on the way in an hour, so we had to wrap up the walk sooner than we wanted. Kengo had the first encounter with a turtle.

📍 Cascade Springs Nature Preserve, GA

A white and brown dog standing on stone platform in the woods, looking toward the right side of the screen. Rich green leaves in the background.
A big turtle under a bench in a park as a white and brown dog staring at it not knowing what to do with it at the bottom right
A man with an orange cap crouching in a park, holding his white and brown dog
A white and brown dog trying to get through a fallen branch in the woods
#dog#dogs#DogsOfMastodon
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My camera shoots fascists

Western box turtles duking it out in my irrigation pond. They're usually super skittish, but they were so engrossed in their encounter that they didn't notice me.

Any #herpetologist out there familiar with these critters? Is this courtship or territorial behavior? There are at least five of them in the pond at the moment. It's almost comical watching them go at it. Toward the end, one lands a pretty good blow and knocks the other backward. I have more video, but shortened it for uploading.

#turtle#herps#herpetology
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