After Darwin owned the tortoise, it had to be sent away to animal prison. She was too much of a hard case
Ancient shellmaster! Awww.
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).
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.
Sounds more like they were her pets.
It’s so sad that she always outlives her pets
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.
owned?
Yeah. Like women, turtles are property /s
Found Mickey7’s alt
Pet Guardian’d isn’t as easy to communicate, I guess.
That’s a big tawdle
Turtle: “I’ve got connections.”
*Tortoise
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.
Sumimasen. 🙇♂️
Betsu ni nani mo nai deshita
And they’re both dead now. Someone look into that turtle
Steve died like two months after the turtle. This is a little too suspicious.
