Turtle Race: Boys vs. Girls
ok in the spirit of "shellebrating" World Turtle Day, i've created this game - Turtle Race!
O - - - - - - - - - - I
O - - - - - - - - - - I
ok there are 2 teams, boys and girls. boys are red and girls are purple. boy turtle = O and girl team's turtle = O.
your turtles above need to move ten feet to win the race. this - = 1 feet.
this is an educational game. your team's turtles get to move a whole foot if u post and share a cool fact about tortoises and turtles.
i will check in after a few posts to update the turtles progression in the race. ex. this turtle moved 2 feet: - - O - - - - - - - -
the first team turtle to reach the finish line I wins Turtle Race!
happy WTD!
ready. get set! GO!
Re: Turtle Race: Boys vs. Girls
Tu'i Malila (1777 – 1965) was a tortoise that Captain James Cook was traditionally said to have given to the royal family of Tonga. It was a female radiated tortoise (Geochelone radiata) from Madagascar and is the longest-lived tortoise whose age has been verified.
The name means King Malila in the Tongan language. Tu'i Malila was hatched around 1777 and then given by Captain Cook to the Tongan royal family upon his visit to Tonga in July 1777. According to other sources, George Tupou I obtained it from a vessel which called in Haapai in the first half of the 19th century.
Tu'i Malila remained in their care until death on 19 May 1965 due to natural causes. The tortoise was estimated to be 188 years old at this time. During Queen Elizabeth II's Royal Tour of Tonga in 1953, Tu'i Malila was one of the first animals shown to the monarch on her official visit to the island nation.
The body of the tortoise is kept at the Royal Palace of Tonga.
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Darn she beat me lol. Oh well, off to google more fun facts. No work getting done today...
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Ok here's another fact:
The Asian Turtle Program of Indo-Myanmar Conservation, Washington State University, and Turtle Survival Alliance are very excited to announce the confirmation of a Yangtze Giant Softshell Turtle (Rafetus swinhoei) living in a lake outside of Hanoi, Vietnam! The now-confirmed specimen increases the global population of the world's rarest turtle, and unarguably one of the Earth's rarest animals, to four.
http://www.turtlesurvival.org/blog/1-blog/535-worlds-rarest-turtle-discovered-in-vietnam#.WwWp4YgvyUk
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Originally Posted by
Ax01
Taylor and Avsha, another boy or girl needs to post a fact before u can post again. but u can have your fact researched and ready. it's a team game and i expected it to be a slow race. ;)
thanks for clarifying. can i post my same fact after another poster shares one? or is mine now off limits?
(I LOVE THIS BTW)
Re: Turtle Race: Boys vs. Girls
Quote:
Originally Posted by
Ax01
Taylor and Avsha, another boy or girl needs to post a fact before u can post again. but u can have your fact researched and ready. it's a team game and i expected it to be a slow race. ;)
Quote:
Originally Posted by
tttaylorrr
thanks for clarifying. can i post my same fact after another poster shares one? or is mine now off limits?
(I LOVE THIS BTW)
sure why not!
(i'm totally not making this up as it goes along. ;) but i think that's all the rules we need.)
Edit: still tied! wow these turtles are slow! lol! needanother boy or girl to post a fact to move a turtle!