This is a video captured by Twitter user jamie amalea pappas of two turtles playing in a pond, with one slapping the other’s face while swimming backwards, taunting it. We all have that friend. Or, should I say, we all had that friend before we finally read a self help
This is a video of a group of turtles trying to stay atop a log as it constantly rotates back and forth due to them all moving to compensate because it is constantly rotating back and forth. “Dammit, I was just trying to catch some rays!” I imagine Michelangelo exclaiming
According to the late, great Jedi master Yoda: “Size matters not.” And to prove that point, this is a video from Kruger National Park in South Africa of a small turtle repeatedly chasing lions away from his watering hole. Unfortunately, due to the lack of colored eye mask I couldn’t
This is a video of African spurred tortoise (Centrochelys sulcata, aka sulcata tortoise) Princess Neferu rubbing herself on a custom made brush system at the Badger Run Wildlife Rehab center in Klamath Falls, Oregon. Some more info while I scratch my own back with my roommate’s toothbrush because he didn’t
This is a super short video of a turtle high-fiving an alligator. Honestly, the gator doesn’t seem too involved in the gesture, its hand just appears to have been in the right place at the right time. I’m also not sure if this technically qualifies as a high-five considering its
This is a video from Youtuber The Fish Whisperer (who I suspect dabbles in a little turtle whispering as well), who attached a GoPro to Tank, a red-eared slider, and let him do his thing in the pond. You may recall a similar video from last year. That’s because he