Top 8
Top 8 thing you need to know about Turtle are listed after the cut
1. In Britain “turtle” is generally used for saltwater species, “terrapin” for freshwater varieties.
2. Two Russian tortoises survived a trip on a spacecraft around the moon in 1968.
3. DH Lawrence wrote a set of six poems about tortoises.
4. According to a survey in 2014 there are about 300,000 pet tortoises and turtles in the UK.
5.
Mock turtle soup was an 18th century dish for those who could not
afford turtle. It was often made with calf’s head or feet and brains.
6.
Leviticus is the only book of the King James Bible that mentions the
tortoise but both the Song Of Solomon and Jeremiah mention turtles.
7. A group of tortoises is called a “creep”. A group of turtles is a “bale”, “dune” or “turn”.
8. The top of a turtle shell is the “carapace”; the underside is the “plastron”; its scales are “scutes”.
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