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Turtles Fully Encased in Ice!
T
They’re fine.
T
Yup. Leave em be
C
They are just chillin
T
Icy what you did there
D
Its really cool
C
Nice
D
N’ice
M
In ice
D
Go away, I’m brumatin’!
M
Omg that might be the best clash of cult media and scientific terminology I have ever seen. You win all day for that one!!!! 🏆
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M
It’s called brumation. It’s something similar to hibernation. Reptiles can essentially slow down their bodily function during the cold months so that they don’t need to eat or move and barely breathe. Frogs, snakes, turtles – they all do this. In fact, some snake breeders will put their snakes in a fridge or freezer during winter months.
B
My buddy has a tortoise I think? Anyways he said he can put it in his fridge for weeks or months at a time.
D
Super handy to go on vacation
O
Will it work for my dog and cat when I go on vacation?
J
Yes, but it will only work once.
E
Define “work”
E
it won’t start to smell until you melt it
L
You’re only dead when you’re *warm* and dead!
P
Ded
Z
Depends. Do your dog and cat have shells?
M
Well the cat is a tortoiseshell, so I guess so?
I
It’s right there in the name, so this surely must be true
G
Ask Sprinkles.
L
House sitter: *Bruh, I ate half that turtle in the fridge…*
C
right? xD
K
Crazy how some people will literally bury their tortoise in their yard for the winter months and when they are dug up they are completely fine.
A
What happens if you forget where you buried your toirtoise?
M
I know you are asking as a joke, but if the turtle is naturally buried(meaning they are mimicking the season or natural cycle), they will excavate themselves at the correct time just like they would do in the wild.
M
You’re not supposed to just willy-nilly do it, you’re supposed to do it to mimic their natural seasons.
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nah just jam that fucker in there. he’ll be good
G
“Later, dipshit! I’m going to the beach!”
V
“I thought **I** was supposed to be the ***snapping*** turtle!”
I
r/nocontext
F
I had two friends growing up that used to belly crawl into rattlesnake dens in February/March every year and haul hundreds of snakes out of them, keep them in a freezer, and then eventually drive to a city a hundred miles away with them and sell them to a company that made anti venom with them. The company gave them tons of money for it. They drove around school in brand new pickup trucks, owned boats, one moved out and had his own apartment at 16. They never told a soul where the dens were, or even which farmers’ land they were located. Not that any of the rest of us were going to go belly-crawling into a rattlesnake den at the back end of winter anyways, but they always said it was harmless and the fuckers were just sort of in a daze and probably not even aware that they were being handled.
N
That’s low key kind of hilarious. Imagine visiting their house for the first time and he asks you to grab a cold one from the fridge. You open the door and this massive tortoise is sitting there where the 12 pack would be.
T
Why is he doing that?
L
Arctic training exercises for increased readiness.
D
They naturally hibernate during winter. If you don’t, it can shorten their life span. They will get sick easier and die.
C
I believe it was Kant who said “Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.” Mario exhibits experience by crushing turts all day, but he exhibits theory by stating “Lets-a go! Keep it up, baby!”
S
Perchance?
M
You can’t just say perchance.
T
Yay Kant, nice to hear
R
I just kant
D
Why *aren’t* you doing that
L
Just a quick reminder that frogs aren’t reptiles, but definitely a great point that amphibians can also do it!
D
Reminder? I didn’t even know that.
S
Yeah, amphibians are pretty much just frogs, toads, salamanders(newts are apparently a type of salamander) and weird worm-like things called Caecilians. Kinda crazy small category compared to mammals, birds, reptiles, and the others
N
To be fair, there are a lot pf frogs. But i think its invertebrates that dwarf us all.
P
I thought they were all dead, today I learned! It never even crossed my mind that turtles could essentially hibernate.
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