They have nerves throughout their shells and can feel even gentle touch.
Hell yeah time to pet some turts
I’ve seen turtles love getting brushed by a soft bristle stuff like toothbrushes plus you alao clean them
SCNR
What about ninja turtles?
What about Ninja Turtles?
Same deal.
Turtles *are a half shell.
who should i trust? Nintendo or a random person on the Internet?
Those are koopa troopas. They’re turtle-like, but not actual turtles.
That’s neat and all. But how do they retract their heads?
And feet, especially box turtles. Some species can indeed go inside their shells - while still being a part of the shell itself, of course.
They can feel touch through their shells
So my head is not “inside” my skull but *is* my skull? Is the brain not a part of my head?
What part of you makes you? Is it just your brain?
Anyway, I think what they’re getting at is that the shell is actually their spine, not like some extra thing that grows on top of their spine.
I get what they try to say. But it’s just funny that they correct a statement with another wrong statement.
What part of the second statement is wrong? A turtle cannot survive without its shell, just like you could not survive without your skull. It is an intrinsic part of what allows it to function as a living organism, therefore the line between “turtle” and “shell” is a bit blurred
You cannot survive without air but you’re not air
You can bring extra air and survive just fine.
You can’t bring an extra skull.
Likewise, a hermit crab can bring an extra shell, but a turtle cannot bring an extra shell.
I mean yes, no one, human or turtle, can survive without the ecosystem of the earth, so you could really argue that the planet is the true organism and we are simply byproducts of its existence
Yet you won’t argue that you are the earth. Why would you argue that a turtle is the same as a turtle’s shell then?
Where can you really draw the line? Could you survive in space without any air or equipment? Even if you could, where did the equipment and air come from?
Photosynthetic organisms are for all practical purposes part of your lungs
Most ppl think they have a skeleton inside them. But If you think of you as your brain (as many would day). Then your actually inside your skeleton.
Behold, a human being.
I think the right analogy would be to say “you are not inside your skull, you are your skull”. And I would count this as a more or less correct statement.
Am I my skull? So I get to live as long as my skull is not decayed?
Well, that’s the paradox isn’t it? We are our minds but somehow we also are our bodies.
Can you put any external part of yourself inside your skull? That’s the difference.
I’ve been trying but I’m still not flexible enough to reach.
*shows toungue and puts it back in
Ooo, good point. Or is it moving an internal part outside the skull? What’s the default location of a tongue?? I’m lost in the science!
According to scientists, the default is outside
source
Yeah, any time you put something in your mouth. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
Look, I’m not a biologist, okay!
Please don’t tap/knock on turtle shells. It would be like someone knocking directly on your bones.
My bones are not weak, they can take it.
Surviving and getting pissed off are totally different things that can happen at the same time…
Your bones are not weak but its still not a good excuse to abuse a turtle by knocking on its shell.
“You know, there’s good eating in them things.”
That’s tortoise silly billy
Turtoises are turtles ya dingbat
https://www.britannica.com/story/whats-the-difference-between-a-turtle-and-a-tortoise
All tortoises are turtles, umm… pedantic Frederick?
I learned from Franklin books and Mario games that you’re wrong. A picture showing a clear cavity where a turtle could pop out won’t convince me!
Idk I see a big cavity that would contain turtle…
Domed, exoskeleton, this is a beetle.
It’s not an exoskeleton though. Those are ribs and a spine, covered in “scutes”, which are kind of horn-like scales.
I’m not inside my skin. I am my skin.
I am not up my ass. I am my ass.
You’re a bundle of neurons piloting a skeleton inside a wetsuit
When you’re in a Jaeger, you can fight the hurricane.
Now give me some sugar water
I see no brain in this picture.