#Tortoises

The saber toothed tiger stalks its unwary prey.

https://cutetropolis.com/2023/11/14/cat-and-tortoise-2/

#Cats #Kittens #Tortoises

Cute bears, surfboard stealer is a mom, missing tortoise found, shy shelter dog, and more.

https://cutetropolis.com/2023/10/26/links-unbearable-cuteness/

#Bears #Cats #Dogs #Kittens #Otters #Pups #Seals #Tortoises

"The secret to this success is that—much like beavers, brown bears, and elephants—giant #tortoises are ecological architects. As they browse, poop, and plod about, they alter the landscape."

#galapagos #biodiversity #rewilding #restoration #ecology #wildlife #tortoise #ecuador

https://hakaimagazine.com/news/galapagos-giant-tortoises-prove-their-worth-as-ecosystem-engineers/

Giant tortoises in Galapagos are restoring their own ecosystem

#animals #Environment #Galapagos #Reptiles #Tortoise #Tortoises #Turtle #turtles
https://theaegisalliance.com/2023/10/15/giant-tortoises-in-galapagos-are-restoring-their-own-ecosystem/?feed_id=14351&_unique_id=652c677502b04

I believe tortoises, like all beings, have worth just because they exist but, headline aside, it's still good news worth sharing.

#Tortoises #GalapagosIslands #wildlife #habitatrestoration #wildlifeconservation

https://hakaimagazine.com/news/galapagos-giant-tortoises-prove-their-worth-as-ecosystem-engineers/

Emotional support dog, cats use vocal fry, meerkat family, cheetah and tortoise, plus more.

https://cutetropolis.com/2023/10/10/links-a-boy-and-his-dog/

#Cats #Cheetahs #Dogs #Kittens #Meerkats #Pups #Tortoises

Good morning🛏8am＠JP

This morning I surprised the turtles in their sleep 🐢🐢🐢.

Yotaro, who wanted to get out of bed before anyone else, stomped on Kumagoro without a care 🤣 Nearby, Hachigoro was startled.

Have a nice day 👐✨

　
あさ8時です🛏おはようございます

今朝は亀ちゃんずの寝起きドッキリ企画🐢🐢🐢

誰よりも早く寝起きしたい与太郎さんは、平気で熊五郎さんを踏みつけてます🤣 その近くで八五郎さんはビックリです

良い一日を👐✨
#tortoises #tortoise #亀 #morning #おはよう #亀ちゃんず #寝起きドッキリ

Happy Sunday⛅8am＠JP

The #tortoises are having #breakfast!
🍅🥬🐢🐢🐢
While little Hachigoro and Kumagoro are distracted by the spinach,
Yotaro has his favourite tomatoes all to himself!

Have a pleasant weekend🤗everyone!

　
あさ8時です⛅日曜日ですね

#亀ちゃんず は #朝ごはん 中です！
🍅🥬🐢🐢🐢

チビの八五郎さん・熊五郎さんがほうれん草に気を取られてるうちに
与太郎さんは大好きなトマトを独り占め！

皆さん🤗楽しい週末を過ごして下さい
#かめちゃんず #亀 #朝食 #morning #おはよう

Two very unhelpful #tortoises hanging about my reclaim.
I hate doing reclaim but having finished my family's Christmas presents I'm rather obliged to do some ...
#ceramics #reclaim #garden #bankholiday

A happy tortoise #haiku

So ravenously,
She munches on tomatoes,
This late summer noon.

#turtle #turtles #tortoise #tortoises #schildkröte #silentsunday #sunday #sonnentag #animal #animals #animalphotography #pet #pets #petsofmastodon #weekend #summer #turtletuesday #reptile #reptiles #cute #cuteposting

Yotaro and Hachigoro are fighting for lettuce🥬🐢🐢

Kumagoro is strolling fluently🐢
　

与太郎さんと八五郎さんはレタスの奪い合い中🥬🐢🐢

お散歩しているのは熊五郎さんです🐢
#tortoises #tortoise #morning #おはよう #亀ちゃんず

Good morning,🌞7am＠JP

Tortoises are having breakfast 🐢🐢🐢
Big Yotaro eats the paprika and little Hachigoro gets upset😅

It's going to be sunny and hot today, stay hydrated and cool🥤🎐

7時です🌞おはようございます

亀たちは朝食中🐢🐢🐢
大きな与太郎さんがパプリカを食べてしまうので、小さい八五郎さんは慌ててしまいます

今日も晴れて暑くなりそう、水分と冷房を忘れないで🥤🎐
#tortoises #tortoise #breakfast #morning #おはよう #亀ちゃんず

Goodmorning, 7am＠JP
Happy wednesday🌞Breakfast time!

The tortoises are eating molokhia🥗
Have a nice day🤗everyone

　
あさ7時です、おはようございます
水曜日🌞朝ごはんどき！

亀ちゃんずはモロヘイヤ🥗を食べています
みなさん🤗良い1日を
#tortoises #tortoise #breakfast #おはよう #亀ちゃんず

#Tortoises vs #Turtles
#Humor

New Yorker: Can You Save One Species by Annoying Another? https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-new-yorker-documentary/can-you-save-one-species-by-annoying-another #NewYorker #Culture/TheNewYorkerDocumentary #EndangeredSpecies #Conservation #Documentary #Tortoises #Ravens #Video

Happy Tortoise Tuesday, and relatedly, Turtle Tuesday! 🐢🐢

Pictured here is Boudicca, an African spurred tortoise, eating her favorite mix of cherry tomatoes and dandelion greens.

#animalsofmastodon #animals #petsofmastodon #pets #reptiles #turtle #turtles #tortoise #tortoises #tortoiseshell #salad #turtletuesday #TortoiseTuesday #tuesday #dienstag #cute #animalphotography #photo #photography

Happy Saturday, 8am＠JP.
Cheerful tortoises with lettuce 😆
🥬🐢🐢🐢
Have a great weekend, everyone✨

土曜日のあさ8時＠JP。
亀ちゃんずは🥬🐢🐢🐢
元気にレタスを頬張ってます😆

みなさん、良い週末をね✨
#tortoises #tortoise
#おはようございマストドン

“You need 2-3 tortoises per hectare and can completely change the ecosystem and all the other species within it by shifting it from forest to savannah.”

#rewilding #galapagos #tortoises #restoration

https://www.anthropocenemagazine.org/2023/07/returning-giant-tortoises-are-helping-recreate-the-galapagos-islands-darwin-saw/

Giant Armored #Skinks Once Roamed Australia https://www.sci.news/paleontology/tiliqua-frangens-12003.html

A giant armoured #skink from #Australia expands #lizard morphospace and the scope of the #Pleistocene #extinctions: Kailah Thorn et al. https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rspb.2023.0704

"At ~ 2.4 kg, the ancient species was more than double the mass of any living skink, with an exceptionally broad, deep skull, squat limbs and heavy, ornamented body armor. It probably filled the armored herbivore niche that land #tortoises occupy on other continents."

#LifeProTip #tortoises and #turtles love to eat Calisia Repens! 🐢❤️🌱
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Callisia_repens

#Squirtle and #Tortellini turned their heads immediately after putting the leafs on the ground! (As they always do 😋)

#animals #pets #turtle #tortoise #turtlelover #testudo #testudohermanni #petlovers #photooftheday #animalsofmastodon #turtlepower #tortoisesofmastodon  #animalphotography #animalphoto #CalisiaRepens #TheTestudoBros

Lonesome George at the Fausto Llerena Breeding Center in Puerto Ayora, Ecuador

An exhibition devoted to the life (and posthumous taxidermy form) of the last known representative of the Pinta Island Tortoises.
Lonesome George at the Fausto Llerena Breeding Center

Longest dog tongue, cute baby bat, bite otter, cat raises chickens, and more.

https://cutetropolis.com/2023/06/08/links-gene-simmons-demands-recount/

#Bats #Birds #Cats #Chickens #Dogs #Kittens #Otters #Pups #Tortoises

#WhoKnew #Arizona residents could legitimately #adopt #rescued #desert #tortoises?

https://apnews.com/article/desert-tortoise-adoption-pets-turtles-e85edad663e1c02180a7d97c40db0b63

Sea turtles have glands near their eyes which produce salty tears. They're not crying, though, they are getting rid of the extra Salt they take in from drinking seawater.

10 things you might not know about turtles:

https://topicaltens.blogspot.com/2016/05/23rd-may-world-turtle-day.html

#worldturtleday #Turtles #tortoises #facts

She also had encephalitis???

#Feinstein #Senate #Tortoises #VaricellaZoster

Spring is in the air in the #Mojave! I happened to capture this image of a mating pair of Mojave desert #tortoises (#Gopherus #agassizii) last weekend during a #drone survey - a first! That's an active burrow to the left.

#drones #aiforwildlife #aiforconservation #computervision #deserttortoises

Adopted pit bull gets a party, peacock on the loose, happy donkeys, and tortoise taxi.

https://cutetropolis.com/2023/04/28/links-pittie-party/

#Birds #Capybaras #Dogs #Donkeys #Peacocks #Pups #Tortoises

New Yorker: I Am a Giant Tortoise, and Soon It Will Be My Birthday https://www.newyorker.com/humor/daily-shouts/i-am-a-giant-tortoise-and-soon-it-will-be-my-birthday #NewYorker #Humor/DailyShouts #BirthdayParties #Tortoises #Animals #Satire #Humor

The #GalápagosNationalPark Directorate, in collaboration with the organization #GalápagosConservancy, released the 86 #hatchlings, aged between 5 & 6 years, of the #Chelonoidis #hoodensis #species that is #endemic to #EspañolaIsland in the #Galápagos .
The #animals come from the #CaptiveBreeding center of #SantaCruzIsland - located in the center of the #archipelago

https://www.laprensalatina.com/86-captive-bred-galapagos-tortoises-released-into-native-habitat/amp/

#GoodNews #nature #wildlife #tortoises #SeaCreatures #MarineBiology #ecology #biodiversity #ProtectTheWild

"Daddy, those turtles are giving a piggyback ride"

#Herpetology #Turtle #Turtles #Tortoise #Tortoises #Terrapin #Terrapins #Children #Nature #AltText

I love these #tortoises
They're from an early #16thCentury #bookofhours (BNF Latin 9474 fol 127v), and were painted by the wonderfully named John Bumblebee, c1503-8.
#illuminatedmanuscript #tortoise
#earlymodern
@earlymodern
@histodons
@histodon
#histodon
#histodons

Roses are red,
Apples grow on trees,

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/22/us/houston-zoo-tortoise-babies.html

#herpetology #tortoises

Some happy news for a change: It was an astounding feat, zoo officials said, not only because Mr. Pickles is 90 years old, but also because the critically endangered species rarely produces offspring | #tortoise #tortoises #zoo #Houston #animals #endangered #ecosystem @nytimes https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/22/us/houston-zoo-tortoise-babies.html?smid=url-share

Tortoises have lived in the area that is now the Mojave Desert for millions of years, even before it was a desert. But now they are threatened by a well-intentioned but poorly located solar energy development.

Let the Bureau of Land Management know that you want to see a wildlife-friendly framework for renewables development on public lands.

#MojaveDesert #Tortoises #NationalWildlifeFederation #Petition

https://support.nwfactionfund.org/page/49267/donate/1

Ancient DNA elucidates the lost world of western #IndianOcean giant #tortoises and reveals a new extinct species from #Madagascar https://www.sci.news/genetics/astrochelys-rogerbouri-11569.html paper: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abq2574

Before human arrival, the ecosystems of the oceanic #islands in the western Indian Ocean were dominated by #GiantTortoises as equivalents of continental #megafauna, both in total mass and numbers.

@itsBabySmith HEE!

what're their names? breeds? ages?

#turtles #tortoises

Ancient DNA elucidates the lost world of western Indian Ocean giant #tortoises and reveals a new extinct species from Madagascar  https://t.co/GtAbAPHH5z​

via @kwren88@tweets.icu & @ahegalicia@tweets.icu

A marginated tortoise (Testudo marginata) at the Agoraios Kolonos hill, #Athens, #Greece.

#photography #turtles #tortoises #Fujifilm #FujifilmXT2 #Fujinon #XF150to600
(photo: @kernpanik | license: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)

I love #tortoises🐢❤️ I'd love to have one in the nearest future❤️ They're #rabbits among #reptiles❤️ They're both #adorable & on strictly #vegetarian diet 😁
https://universeodon.com/@Mander_Sue3621/109415700598280283

After the majesty of #Caturday yesterday, may I be so bold as to suggest a #SmallPetSunday ?

I love to see rescue #hamsters #rats #mice #rabbits #guineapigs #spiders #geckos #lizards #terrapins #tortoises and #snakes - "Where are the #turtles ?".

For my contribution, please accept my rescue hamsters Blanche and Baby Jane, as they sit in their house gossiping like two perfect, tiny pom-poms with googly eyes and beautiful pink noses.

Hello everyone
Total newbie to #mastodon ! My first post is not a Mastodon, but a herd of elephants I encountered recently on the Masai Mara plains. I’ve worked with the Loita Masai for some decades and as a scientist in the UK, Asia & Africa. I also have interests in #wildlife #environment #science #biology #ecology #plants #herpetology #reptiles #tortoises #rhinos #conservation #readingtip #books #comiccon #scifi #marvel #history & generally trying to make this world a kinder, happier place.

@TollyTB
#Typos
#SpellingMistakes
#Tortoises
#Shells
#Idonteverwanttoseeyourunderwear

🐢 🩲

Pictures are a bit harder to see here because of the glare but we have some #Tortoises on our #ZooTrip with the wonderful @PrinceMumbles

This cute pig struts into winter battle.

#baronvonbear #MastoArt #inking #brushpen #comics #pigs #tortoises #werewolf #kidlitart

Da fühlen sich zwei Draußencamper aber sicher. Liegen relativ ungeschützt im Gehege rum. Ich überlege noch, ob ich sie nachher zwangsweise ins Gewächshaus umsetze… #tortoises #landschildkroeten

I went to a pottery session at a... community centre kind of thing, and made a flower pot.
I hope it will survive firing...
#Art #Pottery #turtles #tortoises

🙀 🐢 😻

#nature #Tortoises #Greece #Athens #Halandri
(photo: @kernpanik | license: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)

Another photo of the tortoise.

#photography #nature #Tortoises #Athens #Greece #Lycabettus
(photo: @kernpanik | license: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)

🙀 🐢 😻

#photography #nature #Tortoises #Athens #Greece #Lycabettus
(photo: @kernpanik | license: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)

Roads are a dangerous place for tortoises.

(After I took the photo, I carried the animal to safety.)

#nature #turtles #tortoises #photography #Peloponnese #Greece
(photo: @kernpanik | license: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)

Trying the daily posting again. Have a tortoise (drawn from a photo)
#art #ArtSlam #sketches #reptiles #turtles #tortoises