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This is my favourite educational picture in Wikipedia! Turtles have this thing called the Turtle Mode. (slrpnk.net)

submitted 2 weeks ago by umbraroze@slrpnk.net to c/aww@lemmy.world

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(Original picture by Brocken Inaglory, 15 April 2010)

Alternative title:
Michelangelo: "Oh no! DUCK!"
Leonardo: "...you made me look stupid, didn't you?"

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[–] tisktisk@piefed.social 10 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Can someone link me to this info? I already wiki searched turtles and didn't find it. Websearch is stuck on turtle graphics

[–] umbraroze@slrpnk.net 13 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I guess the web search messed up then. You should search for biology stuff! Not computer science stuff! Turtles are very computer science related creatures, but there's more to them!

Turtle Mode is actually a complicated thing! It's often implemented in two ways: Cryptodira are the turtles that just pull their heads in, while Pleurodira kind of tuck their head inside sideways.

But it gets even more complicated with certain ancient turtle species. For example, we have the snapping turtles. Technically cryptodira, but they don't really enough shell to cover themselves. Not that they need to because they'll fucking go snappity snap on everything on range. Or we have things like the megacephalum which again is a cryptodira turtle but probably can't retract the head because did we mention it's called the Megacephalum.

EDIT: Forgot: snapping turtle copypasta