http://news-hound.net/world-largest-tortoise-found-in-amazon-basin-800lb/
World’s largest tortoise found in amazon river. Its age around 529 years old / height-59 feet/ weight-800 pounds OR 362.87 kg incredible… Amazing
The red rimmed tortoise is also called the red-foot or red-legged tortoise, the Brazilian giant tortoise, or South American forest tortoise, as well as local names such as morrocoy, woyamou or wayamo, or some variation of jabuta. Many of the local names are shared with the similar red-footed tortoise. These types of large size tortoise are always found in the Amazon River, most of them are found in (Peru, Brazil, Colombia, Venezuela, and so on) the Adults often reach 3m in length, however this one is much larger. The tortoise Females have wide flattened shells, are larger and more numerous than the males tortoise, the Adult tortoise Arraus feed entirely on plant food.
Their main diet is a plant that is native to the Chtac Province region of Brazil. These flowers of this plant have a gene in them which promotes increased cellular life thus allowing those that consumed them to have a greater lifespan. Amongst the native inhabitants are turtle’s that grew constantly in their lifespan until the day they died. The introduction of this flower into their diet thus allowed them to grow to immense sizes and they served as local guardians to the plant.
It was first discovered by the modern world in 1892 by Haughton who was the last person to had seen it in the century.
The nesting habits of this species are similar to those of sea turtles. Just like sea turtles they gather meet in huge numbers so they can travel to suitable nesting areas. The female tortoise lay their eggs on sandbanks that are exposed where there is only dry season but there are relatively few such sites. The females timing is to come out on the sandbanks at night time to lay their eggs and go back to the sea, which can number anywhere from 90 to 100 soft-shelled eggs. and they then return to their feeding grounds which they belong to. The young when hatched are around 5 cm long dart directly for the water, but they emerge to the attentions of many predators so they can only about five percent ever reach the adult feeding grounds. this it is an endangered species and is protected in some country and areas.
Zoologists are out looking for Splinter as we speak.
Forgot to include picture:
http://i.imgur.com/gPgFtOx.jpg
Azure
November 18, 2013, 10:02am
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Are the plants it eats edible by humans?
We need to get on that.
I thought this was a fake,
As a big fan of all things turtley I can say that’s the fakest looking shit ever. The red footed tortoise doesn’t even have horny projections from its shell and no turtle or tortoise has teeth. Whoever photoshopped this really was a fan of the '90s TMNT sequel with the Ooze. It’s really sad that someone wasted their time writing this drivel.
GO NINJA GO NINJA GO!
lobs a grenade and walks away from thread
We’ll end up killing it like always
-Blastoise fainted
Clearly fake humanity would not stand a chance against such a monster.
Here he is, in all of his glory:
Sees turtle with huge canine teeth on bottom that protrude outside of mouth to make it look menacing
maxx
November 18, 2013, 10:31pm
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lmfao…so i take it the jaeger program is under way?
I swear this was posted last week
SoVi3t
November 18, 2013, 11:42pm
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I posted this like a week ago, only then it was claimed this turtle was from the Fukishima reactor leak.
On that note, am I the only person who would kill for a pet Galapagos turtle? I could ride that shit like a pony. A really slow pony.
d3v
November 19, 2013, 7:02pm
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Even if you didn’t notice that this is a shot from Gamera, the fact alone that that’s a Japanese police car should tell you something is up.
Also.
and I just got done watching AVGN gamera movie reviews.
Obligatory “They found Marn!” post.
SoVi3t:
I posted this like a week ago, only then it was claimed this turtle was from the Fukishima reactor leak.
On that note, am I the only person who would kill for a pet Galapagos turtle? I could ride that shit like a pony. A really slow pony.
Got to do it to this soundtrack though
