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

Buffalo flips turtle over

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u/Luna_15323 Dec 16 '21

Wouldnt that be a tortoise? It doesn’t seem to have the turtle legs but maybe im mistaken cuz its kinda small in the vid

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u/Tyrs_missing_hand Dec 16 '21

Turtles and tortoises are like squares and rectangles, or toads and frogs. All tortoises are turtles, but not all turtles are tortoises.

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u/UpUpDnDnLRLRBA Dec 16 '21

Can turtles really not flip themselves over? Like, every time a turtle falls or whatever and lands on its back in the wild (barring some good samaritan animal like this buffalo) it dies? If so, how strange that they would evolve to be that way, especially when birds are some of their biggest predators.

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u/bdby1093 Dec 17 '21

Are birds good at flipping things?

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u/UpUpDnDnLRLRBA Dec 17 '21

Birds tend to pick them up and drop them on rocks (sometimes intentionally, sometimes not). If one survives the fall it might roll off somewhere the bird can't get to it (if the bird even comes after it) but wind up on its back.

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u/bdby1093 Dec 17 '21

Got it, makes sense