So I just learned that’s true in America, but not particularly anywhere else (Australians actually go the other way and have “freshwater tortoises”). Explains a lot about the present situation.
Australian tortoises aren't tortoises. Australian turtles are commonly mistaken for tortoises (as they sometimes come onto land) and so get incorrectly called that sometimes.
Where did you learn that that's only an American thing? I don't live in America. I'd be interested to learn more if you're right, but I can't find anything to support your claim
Tortoise. Turtles are aquatic and have flippers. Terrapins have webbed claws and are active on both land and water. Tortoise only live on land and they have feet with blunt nails.
And it does seem to refer to that in English. Should it, though? Turtles in the narrow sense of sea turtles (Chelonioidea) are an inner branch of the whole Testudines tree, making tortoises unnecessarily paraphyletic (incomplete). It would be more logical to make tortoises the equivalent of Testudines and turtles the equivalent of Chelonioidea. Alas, English taxonomy is not always following the evolutionary logic.
Just today I have again started to listen the book "Ageless" by Andrew Steele, which mentioned this tortoise at the very beginning. BTW, a great book about the real science how we can practically stop aging and dying from it.
It's not certain this is true, but it's somewhat likely. At least, that's what I'm getting from the Wikipedia article.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harriet_(tortoise)
She was not kept as a pet by Darwin, but she may have been collected by him on a journey, then kept at a museum(?)
Thank god he didn't eat her.
Sounds more like they were her pets.
It's so sad that she always outlives her pets
Turtle: “I’ve got connections.”
*Tortoise
Sumimasen. 🙇♂️
Betsu ni nani mo nai deshita
All tortoises are turtles but not all turtles are tortoises
So I just learned that’s true in America, but not particularly anywhere else (Australians actually go the other way and have “freshwater tortoises”). Explains a lot about the present situation.
Australian tortoises aren't tortoises. Australian turtles are commonly mistaken for tortoises (as they sometimes come onto land) and so get incorrectly called that sometimes.
Where did you learn that that's only an American thing? I don't live in America. I'd be interested to learn more if you're right, but I can't find anything to support your claim
I live in America and I haven't learned a damn thing!
owned?
Yeah. Like women, turtles are property /s
Found Mickey7's alt
Pet Guardian'd isn't as easy to communicate, I guess.
After Darwin owned the tortoise, it had to be sent away to animal prison. She was too much of a hard case
It seems like a joke, but she really was cold-blooded.
I told my dog these jokes and she said, "that's scute."
That's a big tawdle
I finally realized that Kristoff from Frozen reminds me of Steve Erwin. Like so much. So upset now that he doesn't have an aussie accent.
Blessed Turtle
Tortoise. Turtles are aquatic and have flippers. Terrapins have webbed claws and are active on both land and water. Tortoise only live on land and they have feet with blunt nails.
If the order Testudines refers to turtles then all tortoises are turtles (though not all turtles are tortoises).
All squares are turtles. All circles are turtles. It's turtles all the way down.
And it does seem to refer to that in English. Should it, though? Turtles in the narrow sense of sea turtles (Chelonioidea) are an inner branch of the whole Testudines tree, making tortoises unnecessarily paraphyletic (incomplete). It would be more logical to make tortoises the equivalent of Testudines and turtles the equivalent of Chelonioidea. Alas, English taxonomy is not always following the evolutionary logic.
Toitles
Ancient shellmaster! Awww.
Just today I have again started to listen the book "Ageless" by Andrew Steele, which mentioned this tortoise at the very beginning. BTW, a great book about the real science how we can practically stop aging and dying from it.