Turtle Race: Boys vs. Girls

[Ax01]

ok in the spirit of "shellebrating" World Turtle Day, i've created this game - Turtle Race!




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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!

[tttaylorrr]

girl team GO!

likely the oldest pet to ever exist is Adwaita the Aldabra tortise! he outlived his owner and was moved to a zoo in india where he lived out the rest of his days until he passed away in 2006 a the ripe old age of 255 years old.

"According to records in the zoo, the age of the giant tortoise, Addwaita, who died on Wednesday, would be 250 years approximately," said zoo director Subir Chowdhury.

The zoo wants to carbon date his shell to determine exactly how old he was.


Addwaita arrived in the zoo in 1875. Zoo officials say he was one of four tortoises brought to India by British sailors from the Seychelle islands as a gift for Lord Robert Clive of the East India Company. Clive was instrumental in establishing British colonial rule in India, before he returned to England in 1767.


While the other three tortoises died, Addwaita reportedly thrived, living in Clive's garden before being moved to the zoo.


Aldabra tortoises come from the Aldabra atoll in the Seychelle islands in the Indian Ocean, and often live to more than 100 years of age. Males can weigh up to 550 pounds.


According to local Forest Minister Jogesh Burman, Addwaita, the zoo's biggest attraction, had been unwell for the last few days.

article here: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/250-yea...dies-in-india/


a pic of Adwaita at the Zoological Gardens of Kolkata in India, where he lived until passing away at 255 years of age.

[Avsha531]

A photo of the tortoise's preserved body, 2002.
Species	Geochelone radiata
Born	c. 1777 Madagascar
Died	19 May 1965 (aged 188) Tonga
Resting place	Royal Palace of Tonga
Known for	Longest-lived tortoise whose age has been verified.

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.

[Avsha531]

Darn she beat me lol. Oh well, off to google more fun facts. No work getting done today...

[Avsha531]

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

[Ax01]

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i'll accept 1 fact from Avsha. two facts, one from each team and the race is tied!

FYI - u cannot post a fact for your team twice in a row. another member of your team needs to post again before u can.


Edit: immabout to go into a meeting here @ 11a and update later unless another non-partisan player wants to ref and update the race.

[tttaylorrr]

The Eastern Long-Neck turtle!!! these guys are found in Australia, and they have a weirdly long neck that allows them to strike and grab prey.


DID U KNO? when threatened, they use glands in their armpits and groin to let out a very smelly odor that puts off predators!

more info here: https://australianmuseum.net.au/east...-necked-turtle

[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.

[tttaylorrr]

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)}}

[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)}}

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!