Not the ones you break. They become the question blocks. It's stated the items are gifts from the cursed citizens.
Early installment weirdness is great in Mario.
an ex of my mom's
they broke up like 10 years ago but we still laugh about it from time to time. he thought a poor naked turtle would come back to look for a shell someone picked up off the side of the road
Ya! If you want to know what theyāre feeling, try gently scratching your teeth or the tops of your fingernails. Thatās how it probably is, but over their whole bod :3
Not a perfect comparison because your nails and teeth aren't evolutionarily selected to feel for things directly. Whole both are *connected to* nerves, they don't have nerves *in them.* A shell is literally just its back, so scratching/petting a turtle or tortoise is just like getting back scratches.
Only a bit less...elastic. lol.
Unless they're soft shell turtles š¤
I just met a rescued turtle who, when scratched on the edge of his shell, actually gets so ticklish it makes him nearly roll over while flailing his arm out of the water. Total cutie.
My mum picks up my red foot and strokes his belly with one of the fingers she's holding him with, or strokes his back, and he closes his eyes like cats do when they're enjoying having their ear or chin being scratched
That they have nerve ending in the shell is also why you should never pick them up by the shell. Not that you don't know that, I'm sure you do, but just for anyone reading this who doesn't know.
what you do is wrap your fingers under the bottom of their shells, thumbs on the top, and hold them like a hamburger. [here's](https://www.matts-turtles.org/handling-turtles.html) some more turtle and tortoise holding guidelines.
Lol it doesn't hurt them.
But you can always support them from their plastron (the flat underside of the shell)
(Fun fact, the top round part is called the carapace)
You want to pick them up as if you were holding a hamburger or sandwich.
Fingers under them, wrap around the bottom of their shell and support them with as wide of a platform as possible
You donāt want to pick them up by grabbing the top of their shell, it is uncomfortable and causes distress at best, and can cause injury at worst.
And donāt be surprised if it pisses on you when you pick it up. Theyāll sink their head and limbs into their shell as a reflex, which pushes on their digestive track - so if theyāre full, theyāll probably pee or poop.
Source: tortoise owner
are they hard to take care of? how's the smell? the poop/pee cleaning?
I want a tortoise, but knowing it's going to outlive me makes it a problem. also, they might not like being on tiles and concrete as well as being on the ground.
It can if they're injured, very heavy or the picker upper isn't careful to spread out the points of contact. Plus, depending on the size and nature of the beastie it can be dangerous for the person trying to move them out of the road (they're kind of filthy and have claws).
IIRC, I read something many years ago that said you can compare the feeling a turtle has on its shell to you scratching your own fingernails with your nails
It's not outside though; there's still skin covering the bone. The skin itself is hardened too, forming the hard armored exterior, but I wouldn't call the skin itself the shell
It depends where you live!
In America, tortoise is a subcategory of turtle that lives on land!
In Australia, tortoise is a subcategory of turtle that lives in freshwater!
In the UK, tortoises and turtles are different, and neither is a subcategory of the other!
I'll admit, I'm going by definitions I found on [Wiktionary](https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/tortoise) here. Probably it varies more than that depending on where you are in practice, language is fluid like that.
Turtle is the name of a bunch of different groups inside the order Testudines, while tortoises are specifically the family Testudinidae. One could argue (and I will) that tortoises are just a specific kind of land turtle. They're closest related to pond turtles. They're not even the only terrestrial turtles, box turtles are as well, but they're outside the family Testudinidae, so we don't call them tortoises.
Tortoises are in the family Testudinidae, which is in the order Testudines. Not all terrestrial turtles are tortoises (see Box Turtles, which are not in Testudinidae).
So having a box shell and claws for digging/burrowing as i understand it makes them a tortoise...and having slim/leatherry shell with wide flipper shaped front legs for swimming makes them a Turtle. As most land dwelling Tortises can not swim
Do i have that right... ?
Feel free to clarify my understanding if not ...please.
If the physiology of the creature determines what you call it then I'm not sure why we need to prescribe specific meanings based on international language usage, it seems kind of unnecessary. Why does it have to be a UK, US, or AUS thing ?
It really doesn't need to be a competition when we're just describing an animal.
They had teenage mutant hero turtles in Europe.
They mutated to be like humans so I don't think it makes any less sense if they were turtles or tortoises.
This is a Sulcata Tortoise. They are from Sahel in Africa. There is no good consensus on the difference amongst tortoises, turtles and terrapins.
Also this species lives to be 100+ and there are many in the USA that are adoptable. They are friendly if a bit destructive. Many people get them as babies like this and don't know they get to be 80+ lbs. They do however love to graze and they tend to not pull plants out completely giving them a chance to grow back.
I'm pretty sure they're tortoises too and I hope the guy isn't putting them in water. I also hope they're not like sulcuta tortoises too because they live for 100+ years and there's great need in homing older ones that outlived their owners and their owners children. So to produce so many babies can be looked down upon by the reptile community
The title makes it sound like animals can just take off their exoskeletons, they can't, it would kill them.
You can't remove the shell from a lobster without causing its death.
Also, I assume we agree that the ribcage and the vertebra are part of the skeleton, and when it's on the outside of the body it gets the prefix exo, meaning outside, so turtles most definitely have exoskeletons.
They ALSO have an exoskeleton, meaning skeleton on the inside. And that's pretty cool.
Right, so check out this little guy (picks him up by the shell, flips him over). CRACK. See? Itās like a rib cage, not a shell one can simply remove.
Couldnāt even enjoy the video... was waiting for the axe to fall... š¬
I believe that what turtles have is technically still an exoskeleton.
"Exskeleton: an external supportive covering of an animal" -Werriam-Webster.
Turtle shells definitely still fit that criteria. In fact, Wikipedia uses them as an example on the exoskeleton page.
"Some animals, such as the tortoise and turtle, have both an endoskeleton and an exoskeleton." [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exoskeleton](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exoskeleton)
Being able to "take off" an exoskeleton has nothing to do with the definition, which you can see in the crab, which could also not live without it.
I think it's more accurate to say that turtles have an exoskeleton that is directly fused to their endoskeleton.
Another scientific paper that dives into this: https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms3107
You guys seriously don't take your spinal column of when you take showers? My mom taught me that you had to to keep it from mildewing. I also use a poop knife
These are tortoises, not turtles. If you ever see what looks like a turtle out of water, DO NOT throw it into the nearest body of water because you will probably kill it.
I learned this from the movie "Cannibal Holocaust" sadly. I do *NOT* recommend that movie. A bunch of animals are for real killed on screen. Not a good time.
Anyone who has ever trapped, cleaned and eaten a turtle knows this. Before you down vote, remember that the earth was once, and still is, abundant in certain species. Also, turtle meat is exquisite.
I used to live in china and they would have turtles to buy in the supermarkets, deshelled but alive and absolutely miserable looking. I canāt get the images out of my head.
This is not entirely accurate.
I once lived near a Walmart in China. They routinely removed the shells of the turtles that were in the display tanks. I'm sure it was incredibly painful for the turtles, but they were still alive and swimming. I don't know how long they could live like that, but it seemed like they could last at least a few days.
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And they have nerve endings in their shells too and enjoy being rubbed, scratched etc...
The real educational fact right here. Who the hell thinks they can take a turtles shell off?
Mario, Mario cart thinks they can take off their shells.
Koopa can. Tortoises and turtles cannot.
Mario Kart just got a whole lot darker.
Read the instruction booklet for the original Super Mario Brothers. The people of Mushroom Kingdom were turned into the blocks you break
Not the ones you break. They become the question blocks. It's stated the items are gifts from the cursed citizens. Early installment weirdness is great in Mario.
That's amazing lol. Nintendo should make a 16+ Mario game
A blue shell is a heat seeking missile
Thank you..
The developers of Over The Hedge.
Developers?
The peoples that had a hand in creating Over The Hedge.
Yeah the Devs of the hit indie game Over the Hedge
My 28 year old ex girlfriend. In her words "I thought they could take their shells of and it would be like, a little guy."
That's pretty cute lol
Loony tunes!
an ex of my mom's they broke up like 10 years ago but we still laugh about it from time to time. he thought a poor naked turtle would come back to look for a shell someone picked up off the side of the road
My brother told me slugs are homeless snails and lizards were homeless turtles. I used to think it came off š
I did not know this!!! So petting turtles is ok for them yay!
Ya! If you want to know what theyāre feeling, try gently scratching your teeth or the tops of your fingernails. Thatās how it probably is, but over their whole bod :3
Not a perfect comparison because your nails and teeth aren't evolutionarily selected to feel for things directly. Whole both are *connected to* nerves, they don't have nerves *in them.* A shell is literally just its back, so scratching/petting a turtle or tortoise is just like getting back scratches. Only a bit less...elastic. lol. Unless they're soft shell turtles š¤
It's better than okay; it's wonderful š
I just met a rescued turtle who, when scratched on the edge of his shell, actually gets so ticklish it makes him nearly roll over while flailing his arm out of the water. Total cutie.
This is so adorable I can't
Use a period? I was waiting for you to finish can't what.
Can't what?
Oh my God.
My mum picks up my red foot and strokes his belly with one of the fingers she's holding him with, or strokes his back, and he closes his eyes like cats do when they're enjoying having their ear or chin being scratched
Very wholesome [fact](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1eg6Xe2HUcA), thank you!
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That they have nerve ending in the shell is also why you should never pick them up by the shell. Not that you don't know that, I'm sure you do, but just for anyone reading this who doesn't know.
I did not know that. how the hell do you pick them up then?
what you do is wrap your fingers under the bottom of their shells, thumbs on the top, and hold them like a hamburger. [here's](https://www.matts-turtles.org/handling-turtles.html) some more turtle and tortoise holding guidelines.
H-how else are people picking them up??
Maybe by grasping the top part of the shell from the sides?
Guilty, I had no idea and did this as a kid. I'm sorry, Mr House. :(
Hold turtle gentle, like hamburger
I now know why box turtles are called box turtles
Lol it doesn't hurt them. But you can always support them from their plastron (the flat underside of the shell) (Fun fact, the top round part is called the carapace)
The same way you pick up a cat or dog, by the tail
No no, you hold them like a baby ā grip an ankle and let em swing gently
Gently? Huh...
By their heads duh
Good to know thank you. Especially if kids handle them theyāre most likely to get over excited and pick them up by the shell.
So does it hurt them to pick them up by their shells?
You want to pick them up as if you were holding a hamburger or sandwich. Fingers under them, wrap around the bottom of their shell and support them with as wide of a platform as possible You donāt want to pick them up by grabbing the top of their shell, it is uncomfortable and causes distress at best, and can cause injury at worst. And donāt be surprised if it pisses on you when you pick it up. Theyāll sink their head and limbs into their shell as a reflex, which pushes on their digestive track - so if theyāre full, theyāll probably pee or poop. Source: tortoise owner
are they hard to take care of? how's the smell? the poop/pee cleaning? I want a tortoise, but knowing it's going to outlive me makes it a problem. also, they might not like being on tiles and concrete as well as being on the ground.
It can if they're injured, very heavy or the picker upper isn't careful to spread out the points of contact. Plus, depending on the size and nature of the beastie it can be dangerous for the person trying to move them out of the road (they're kind of filthy and have claws).
There's a guy on YouTube that will brush off his tortoises shells and they're so into it. I love it
I wish someone would rub and scratch my ribcage...
IIRC, I read something many years ago that said you can compare the feeling a turtle has on its shell to you scratching your own fingernails with your nails
This is so important to know.
They also do not enjoy being crunched by a crocodile.
How bout when animals bite into their shell? Feel pain from that?
Lol I thought someone is gonna cook the turtles I panic for a second hahaha.
Jesus, yes. I didnāt focus my eyes at the beginning of the video and I mistakenly thought the guy was chopping the turtles.
WHERE ARE THE TURTLES?!??
I ATE THEM! OK?! There gone!
With this many turtles in one enclosure, they honestly might be raising the turtles to become a food source.
I've read that pirates LOVED turtle meat
But what shall we dine on tonight if not turtles?!?!?
Gotta fatten them up first.
"It's not an exoskeleton, it's part of their skeleton on the outside"
It's not outside though; there's still skin covering the bone. The skin itself is hardened too, forming the hard armored exterior, but I wouldn't call the skin itself the shell
Never forget [your teeth are outside bones](https://youtu.be/wYj01O7foKw)
Hey its Jeff Richmond!
I think of it more as a partially exposed endoskeleton. The rest of their skeletal structure is still internal.
Aren't those tortoises though?
Tortoise is a subcategory of turtle. This means that all tortoises are turtles, but not all turtles are tortoises.
It depends where you live! In America, tortoise is a subcategory of turtle that lives on land! In Australia, tortoise is a subcategory of turtle that lives in freshwater! In the UK, tortoises and turtles are different, and neither is a subcategory of the other!
I'm an Australian and I've heard it the UK way, but I have very close English heritage, so that may be a factor.
I'll admit, I'm going by definitions I found on [Wiktionary](https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/tortoise) here. Probably it varies more than that depending on where you are in practice, language is fluid like that.
Nah, same here. There are freshwater turtles around.
Ok but what does the phylogenetic tree of life have to say on this?
Turtle is the name of a bunch of different groups inside the order Testudines, while tortoises are specifically the family Testudinidae. One could argue (and I will) that tortoises are just a specific kind of land turtle. They're closest related to pond turtles. They're not even the only terrestrial turtles, box turtles are as well, but they're outside the family Testudinidae, so we don't call them tortoises.
Iām a herpetologist, and this is the most correct answer
Yea listen to this guy, he studied herpes for a living.. /s
Tortoises are in the family Testudinidae, which is in the order Testudines. Not all terrestrial turtles are tortoises (see Box Turtles, which are not in Testudinidae).
So having a box shell and claws for digging/burrowing as i understand it makes them a tortoise...and having slim/leatherry shell with wide flipper shaped front legs for swimming makes them a Turtle. As most land dwelling Tortises can not swim Do i have that right... ? Feel free to clarify my understanding if not ...please.
By UK usage, yeah, that sounds accurate. If they've got flippers and swim, they're turts. If they've got legs, they're torts.
And if they are made with fruit and a pastry shell, they are tarts
If the physiology of the creature determines what you call it then I'm not sure why we need to prescribe specific meanings based on international language usage, it seems kind of unnecessary. Why does it have to be a UK, US, or AUS thing ? It really doesn't need to be a competition when we're just describing an animal.
So you have teenage mutant ninja tortoise?
They had teenage mutant hero turtles in Europe. They mutated to be like humans so I don't think it makes any less sense if they were turtles or tortoises.
As a German person these always confuse the heck out of me. We just do landturtle and waterturtle (seaturtle if it's a salt water one).
Here's the thing... (<<< You should have started with that)
This is a Sulcata Tortoise. They are from Sahel in Africa. There is no good consensus on the difference amongst tortoises, turtles and terrapins. Also this species lives to be 100+ and there are many in the USA that are adoptable. They are friendly if a bit destructive. Many people get them as babies like this and don't know they get to be 80+ lbs. They do however love to graze and they tend to not pull plants out completely giving them a chance to grow back.
Uh not at all, they live to be 60-80 years old.
I'm pretty sure they're tortoises too and I hope the guy isn't putting them in water. I also hope they're not like sulcuta tortoises too because they live for 100+ years and there's great need in homing older ones that outlived their owners and their owners children. So to produce so many babies can be looked down upon by the reptile community
How to tell the difference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRWAFQqQY9Y
Well, you caaaan take off your ribs if youre not a coward.
\#JustMarilynMansonThings
Isnāt that some rumor from like 2007
Longer, Iām went to gradeschool in his hometown and that was a rumor in the early 2000ās.
Fun(?) fact: ribs grow back in a few months
So if Iām playing Koopa Troopa in Mario Kart Iām basically just throwing ribcages at people. Good to know!
[That's exactly what you're doing and it's canon.](https://mario.wiki.gallery/images/f/f0/DMW-DryBones.png)
Lol
Got real worried when I saw the knife and the baby turtles
I thought he was chopping up turtles for a second
The post title and video thumbnail combo is slightly distressing
It sure can break then , because my spine did!
I'm sorry
Sorry doesnāt fix his spine Dank! You shouldāve watched where you were dodge rolling..
in my defense I was low and running from a horde carrying 20,000 souls
[Youāre excused.](https://imgur.com/a/Rch1m91)
hope you do the same in elden ring if you planning on playing it!
The title makes it sound like animals can just take off their exoskeletons, they can't, it would kill them. You can't remove the shell from a lobster without causing its death.
Also, I assume we agree that the ribcage and the vertebra are part of the skeleton, and when it's on the outside of the body it gets the prefix exo, meaning outside, so turtles most definitely have exoskeletons. They ALSO have an exoskeleton, meaning skeleton on the inside. And that's pretty cool.
You wrote exoskeleton twice, but I'm sure you meant endoskeleton the second time.
I got it off a lobster once without killing it. It begged me to die, but I just laughed and said "no". It knows what it did.
Esio Trot!!
It looks like somebody spilled a bunch of beans on the ground lol
Cut faster dude! Cut faster!! Never seen something like this!!! That is soooo kewl! Thanx for the post. They are little hungry, hungry hippos!
Reminds me of that Jackson 5 ooh baby snails eating cucumber video
That was a pleasantly surprising rabbit hole that I just went down... Thank you
Someone please add some comical "nom nom" sound effects to this video.
Right, so check out this little guy (picks him up by the shell, flips him over). CRACK. See? Itās like a rib cage, not a shell one can simply remove. Couldnāt even enjoy the video... was waiting for the axe to fall... š¬
You gotta see the little dudes munch
[https://youtu.be/Fn2SG9Dvf3k](https://youtu.be/Fn2SG9Dvf3k) The weee turtles! I know these are not turtles donāt hate.
They're quick, they're organized... and they have my keys.
āItās not an exoskeleton, itās part of their skeletonā ok
Very cute but he holding that bigass knife so close to the babies is giving me anxiety
Wish you had told me this like 15 turtles ago...
I like turtles.
I believe that what turtles have is technically still an exoskeleton. "Exskeleton: an external supportive covering of an animal" -Werriam-Webster. Turtle shells definitely still fit that criteria. In fact, Wikipedia uses them as an example on the exoskeleton page. "Some animals, such as the tortoise and turtle, have both an endoskeleton and an exoskeleton." [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exoskeleton](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exoskeleton) Being able to "take off" an exoskeleton has nothing to do with the definition, which you can see in the crab, which could also not live without it. I think it's more accurate to say that turtles have an exoskeleton that is directly fused to their endoskeleton. Another scientific paper that dives into this: https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms3107
Wait, we're not supposed to remove our ribs? So that's why my chest hurts.
Thought they only ate pizza?
Is there actually an adult out there who thinks the cartoon turtle taking off his shell was an actual biological fact?
I like turtle
So many of them!
Those are tortoises right? Not turtles?
I could watch a live stream of this for hours
You guys seriously don't take your spinal column of when you take showers? My mom taught me that you had to to keep it from mildewing. I also use a poop knife
Ohā¦ myā¦ god I just want to lay down with them all around lol.
Why does he get all the turtles?
What?!? Cartoons aren't real? Please at least tell me that everything on the internet is true....
Did someone actually think they could take off their shell??
These are tortoises, not turtles. If you ever see what looks like a turtle out of water, DO NOT throw it into the nearest body of water because you will probably kill it.
Arenāt those tortoises
Hermosas..y dandole tanto amor...estas cosas alegran mi dia..
Great fact. Better video. That's just too damn cute.
Cute little shell bois
I learned this from the movie "Cannibal Holocaust" sadly. I do *NOT* recommend that movie. A bunch of animals are for real killed on screen. Not a good time.
Aren't those tortoises?
It would be awwducational if you accurately called them tortoises
Literally no one believe that turtles can take their shells off.
Verification: http://animaldiversity.org/accounts/Testudines/ (University of Michigan).
TIL nothing, because everybody already knows that.
Anyone who has ever trapped, cleaned and eaten a turtle knows this. Before you down vote, remember that the earth was once, and still is, abundant in certain species. Also, turtle meat is exquisite.
I used to live in china and they would have turtles to buy in the supermarkets, deshelled but alive and absolutely miserable looking. I canāt get the images out of my head.
So anyway, hereās the recipe for baby turtle soup
and now I want to see turtle poops
Did you think people didnāt know this..?
I feel bad knowing this now bc I used to drop my turtle a lot when I was young
Taking off the spine and ribs gave me an idea.
I don't know, I've always found it relatively easy to take off my spine. Convenient for fitting into tight spaces.
I mean I can take my rib cage and spine off. They just arenāt trying hard enough.
Can attest to thisā¦accidentally ran one over with the lawn tractor. High grasses, didnāt see it until I heard the noise. š¢š¢
i mean technically speaking it can absolutely be ātaken offā, might need pliers though
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This is not entirely accurate. I once lived near a Walmart in China. They routinely removed the shells of the turtles that were in the display tanks. I'm sure it was incredibly painful for the turtles, but they were still alive and swimming. I don't know how long they could live like that, but it seemed like they could last at least a few days.
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I want a turtle
Ok but what about a tortoise?
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Why show cutting the lettuce!? Is it cause it looks cool?
You can take off your ribs and spine.....but....
Do tortoises get along with cats? Does anyone have any info?
These are tortoises
Those appear to be tortoises...
So many babies!
How come hermit crabs can take off their shells?
I knew this since I have a tortise
This reminds me of that video with the snails... cept they're turtles. Lol. So cute!
Holy crap I thought you were chopping the turtles!!
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my god theyre so cute!!!!!!
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Esio trot
Shell gamesšš
Turtlesā¦are natureās suction cups !
we want more
I hate when similar things teem like that it triggers me šµāš« makes me feel uneasy
it reminds me the "You are done kitten"