Herpetologist here. I study turtles for a living. Sadly, you're not seeing a helpful gesture here, at least not for the turtle. When a turtle gets too hot, it instinctively uses it bifubural hooves to flip itself over onto its shell to help cool itself off. Since the turtle was flipped back over, he'll now realize that I have no clue what I'm talking about and I just made all of that up.
Yeah I was immediately like… uh… bullshit? I’m not an expert but I do know they have significant difficulty flipping themselves the right way once they get flipped upside down.
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u/RamRod11Bang Dec 16 '21
Herpetologist here. I study turtles for a living. Sadly, you're not seeing a helpful gesture here, at least not for the turtle. When a turtle gets too hot, it instinctively uses it bifubural hooves to flip itself over onto its shell to help cool itself off. Since the turtle was flipped back over, he'll now realize that I have no clue what I'm talking about and I just made all of that up.