Schildkröte
turtles
Submitted 6 months ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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lugal@lemmy.ml 6 months ago
espentan@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Mhm, skilpadde.
JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 6 months ago
Sköldpadda
umbraroze@lemmy.world 6 months ago
One of the most tragicomical science notes I’ve ever read comes from Gilbert White:
We put Timothy into a tub of water, & found that he sunk gradually, & walked on the bottom of the tub: he seemed quite out of his element, & was much dismayed. This species seems not at all amphibious.
Timothy was luckily fine afterwards! This watery misadventure got retaliated in the most turtle-rific manner imaginable: Timothy was determined to, and succeeded in, outliving White. In fact, memory and legacy of Timothy is even more alive now - everyone can go look at the 3D scan of Timothy’s shell on the internet. Did Gilbert White’s works get 3D scanned? No, only 2D scanned. So old-fashioned.
(Also kind of tragic that Timothy was only found to be female after she died. And some time later, another tortoise was named Timothy after her, and it later turned out she was female too. Something tells me humanity is never going to completely figure out this whole sex/gender thing.)
Femcowboy@lemm.ee 6 months ago
Steve@startrek.website 6 months ago
Tortaye
LarkinDePark@lemmygrad.ml 6 months ago
It’s tortoise all the way down.
omgarm@feddit.nl 6 months ago
Just call 'em seaturtles and landturtles like other Germanic languages. Then you can just ask them how they identify and throw them wherever is best suited.
idegenszavak@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
The Hungarian word for turtles (both land and sea one) translates to “frog with a bathtub”
cucumber_sandwich@lemmy.world 6 months ago
The German word translates to Shield Toad
omgarm@feddit.nl 6 months ago
Hungary is a silly place. The bathtub is upside down then.
dohpaz42@lemmy.world 6 months ago
But what about the one in the US Senate? Surely we can throw that one into the ocean. No?
jonne@infosec.pub 6 months ago
Those ones belong in a pond, preferably in a Tesla.
ZagamTheVile@lemmy.world 6 months ago
The ocean is polluted enough.
ursakhiin@beehaw.org 6 months ago
Does not compute. Turtle stuck in my bum.