#turtle facts

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We’re giving fun facts..??? Fun fact then in teenage mint ninja turtles you know how the turtles get a white sheen over their eyes or it’s just there? That’s a real thing! It’s a third eyelid called a nictitating membrane and acts as but or in swim goggles

Ooooo! That’s super cool! I knew some animals had multiple eyelids for protection but I didn’t realize turtles had those too.

[jorpyborpy]

Jorpyborpy fact : believe it or not???

Most turtles arenot even named larry

CRAZY

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ROTTMNT Headcanons

Turtle Biology! (All hc’s are based on facts about their species of turtle!)

They all brumate (hibernation for reptiles) a little bit. Donnie and Leo have it the worst. It mostly entails them sleeping a lot when it gets super cold. 

While they really enjoy human food, each of them enjoy turtle food to a degree (Mikey-least, Donnie-most)

Donnie

Ate a frog for $25 once and liked it and now he freaks Mikey out with it 

He can swim the fastest, but sucks at running

When he was very, very little he bit Raph hard enough to draw blood

His bite is just a powerful as Raph’s but he doesn’t brag about it because he would never put something unclean in his mouth (w/o adequate compensation)

Leo 

Ate a frog for $5 once and liked it so he and Donnie gang up on Mikey to freak him out 

He likes nonverbal communication a lot and prefers it when he’s in a mood 

He sunbathes and tries to convince the others to come with him 

When it gets super cold he and Donnie bundle up for what Donnie calls “The Brumation Period” and Leo calls “The Super Nap” and they just sleep on the couch together for like three straight days

Raph

He once bit through a table leg 

When the temperature gets crazy he gets picky and really fussy

When it gets too cold he takes long naps in his room and enjoys alone time all cuddled up. He leaves the door cracked so that he can still hear his family

He does that thing when swimming where he’ll grab peoples ankles underwater  (will cry if someone grabs his ankles)

Has a great sense of smell 

Mikey 

Was terrified of water growing up and didn’t learn how to swim until very recently

Used to tease Donnie that he could go in his shell so effortlessly while Donnie couldn’t at all (before his battle shell)

When brumation time rolls around Mikey’s room becomes a total mess and he just collects all kinds of garbage that he surrounds himself with 

Ate a bug once too see if he liked it as much as his brothers liked their turtle food and he thought it was gross

[mintyyyshake9000]

Found a fact floating around that red ear sliders like to sit on soft shells :> so this is may take on that fact. Whenever Donnie does the "shrimp back" thing his back ends up hurting so Leo offers to sit on his shell as a type of relief/pressure stim. And with a pillow in between so he doesn't hurt Donnie's shell :]

Here's the original image lol

Also this did extremely well on my Instagram cause it just hit over 400 likes! :O which is now my most liked post lol so I'm hoping it does well here as well

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Just take this in for a moment for the au's that mikey as a painted turtle

[shadowpuppetteer]

Here are some more weird animal facts. Peacocks show off their feathers, walruses do battle, and turtles do jazz hands. I love how silly evolution is.

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Lots of medical turtle stuff down here, if you wanna use it. If not, feel free to ignore. I just freaking love turtles and reptiles and learn about their medical needs in my spare time since I plan to have a few some day.

So, interestingly, when blood is drawn from a turtle, it's usually drawn from the neck. Close above the shell, jugular vein area.

And sometimes from the same spot right above the tail. That vein is called the coccygeal vein, or the tail vein.

However, the ninja turtle boys are mutants, and anthropomorphic turtles, so their anatomy may be more similar to a human in terms of vascular and arterial (veins and arteries), so elbow/wrist may be more appropriate.

Or, secret third option, an in-between. Like the shoulder.

Honestly I'm not sure it even matters since we'd have no way of knowing for sure in the case of mutant humanoid turtles, but I don't think the shoulder would work realistically in any case here due to the difficult vein and artery placement there.

(I couldn't find any good vascular maps for a turtle so have a weird minor-detail one from a medical journal about sea turtle anatomy. Note: some internal structures vary between turtle species due to environment and body shape, but only slightly.)

(Also note: there are two separate pictures due to the labeling. It's the same map, but there's so many things to label they had to make two.)

So, just for funsies, I thought you might like to know where they draw from with actual non-mutated turtles. Just in case.

Here's some terminology and other facts if you ever wanna use that:

The veins typically sought out for blood drawing in turtles are the jugular and tail vein, but a couple others may work. This is typically because most other drawing sites, like the arms, have a much higher chance of lymph contamination in the sample. The jugular is the least likely site to give this contamination.

It's not recommended to try to access the jugular when the head is in the shell, nor is it recommended to attempt to get the head out of the shell for the sample. In those cases, sedation is the preferred method. Mostly to not hurt the animal.

The tail vein is the second best option, and can be approached ventral or dorsal (from underneath or from the top).

If a turtle keeps their head in their shell and sedation is not an option, the subcarapacial sinus is used. It lies inside the carapace at the level of the cervical vertebrae. So basically right at the top above the neck at the juncture between the neck and the shell.

(medical article snippet below)

Here's another visual reference for the preferred spots

Hope this helped! Or if you don't feel like going through this much trouble for your "just for fun" comic, I hope you enjoyed learning something new! 😊

Woah! Thank you for this! I will definitely keep this in mind for the future of this project and/or any other turtle projects I do.

Thank you so much for going out of your way to write all this out for me! I found it actually pretty interesting! Maybe this will convince me to look up a little bit more about turtles in the future :33

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Alligator Snapping Turtles

Facts and Information

Appearance

-Prehistoric appearance

-Pronounced ridges, called Keels, that have spikes on them

-large pointed heads

-hooked beaks

-long, thick tails

Behaviour/Habitat

Alligator Snapping turtles have a life span of 45-70 years.

Adult turtles favour the deeper waters of lakes, swamps, canals, and rivers. They spend most of their time in water, and can stay underwater for up to 50 minutes. Oftentimes, they spend so much time being motionless underwater that algae starts to grow on their backs, which, in turn, can be used as camouflage.

Their also generally solitary creatures, as most turtles are.

Diet

Alligator Snapping Turtles are hunters and scavengers, meaning they both hunt, and scavenge for their food.

Their diet consists of: fish, mollusks, other turtles, frogs, snails, snakes, small mammals, insects, and aquatic plants.

They are most active at night.

During the day, they lay motionless in murky waters with their mouths open, using a red, worm-like projection on their tongues as a lure for prey.

They also have an extremely powerful and dangerous bite.

Alligator snapping turtle | Size, Habitat, Diet, & Facts | Britannica

Alligator snapping turtle, (Macrochelys temminckii), species of freshwater turtle in the family Chelydridae. The alligator snapping turtle i