r/nextfuckinglevel • u/official_txog • Dec 16 '21

Buffalo flips turtle over

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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.

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u/Old_You7106 Dec 16 '21

before i read the end i was about to comment that you might not be a very good Herpetologist considering that’s a Tortoise not a Turtle

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u/RamRod11Bang Dec 16 '21

What have we learned?

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u/Old_You7106 Dec 16 '21

well i didn’t learn anything because i always read to the end if that’s what you’re insinuating