Tag: tortoises

tort-time:

laserpedidio:

Cleopatra è la tartaruga di alcuni amici; ogni tanto mi chiedono di andare a nutrire/tenere compagnia al cane, Tobia, e la Cleo ogni volta non si trova mai prima che loro partano.
Allora mi dicono “hey senti se la trovi mettila nel recinto!” E io “okay!” [ That means Chissà dove cazzo è sta tartaruga!]
E te va, entro in cortile e questa mi fa pure servizio accoglienza, ma che cuore❤🐢
Ciao Cleoooo

Is there anything better than an excited tortoise running up to greet you. 😍  nope. the answer is nope. 

loose translation:

“Cleopatra is m friends tortoise. Every now and they they ask me to care for their dog, Tobia, and cleo the tortoise who is always missing! They always tell me “hey, can you keep an eye out for Cleo” Then I go in the yard and am met with this greeting…

HIII CLEOOOO! “

Big spenders in China are targeting U.S. species of turtles and tortoises as collector’s items and cuisine

typhlonectes:

Conservationists say the case involving 70 spotted turtles and 100
eastern box turtles confiscated on May 9 is a troubling example of how
China’s appetite for turtles has grown to include relatively common
native species in the United States.

“This case signals a new and
distressing trend: poachers in the U.S. willing to swap our own wildlife
for a few dollars from Chinese collectors,” Paul Gibbons, chief
operating officer of the nonprofit Turtle Conservancy’s Behler Chelonian
Center in Ventura County, said…

Big spenders in China are targeting U.S. species of turtles and tortoises as collector’s items and cuisine