It’s a flipping tortoise!

[GingerSwan]

To want to scream at the top of my lungs every time someone calls a tortoise a “turtle” 😂

I’ve just read so many comments on a fb video of one and everyone got it wrong, it makes me so irrationally angry

Yes iabu to get so worked up about it, what other mis-named things make you rage?

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Urgh @GingerSwan you said 'hence why' just say 'hence'

Not an animal. But people who refer to St Pancras station in London as St Pancreas. (It's named after a saint, not an organ in the body.)

Tbh I can't tell the difference unless they're in a specific habitat.

You can't tell the difference??!!
They look turtley different (see what I did there)

Look at their feet. One has flippers.

pizzacrisps Touché! My aspergers causes me to say a few extra bits and bobs in sentences (especially when typing) but I can see how using both words makes ‘why’ totally redundant Maybe in future I’ll notice now it’s been pointed out

elephantoverthehill
They don’t have to hibernate if they are kept indoors over winter. Ours lives indoors with a heat lamp and only gets put in the garden on warm days. I haven’t risked hibernating him I am too worried about doing it wrong and killing him.

@Smidge001 , huh, hadn't thought about that being a distinguisher. I see shell and then depending on what the animal is near will determine what I call it, sometimes I'll be wrong. I don't come across them in everyday life so it's never been an issue.

We too had a family tortoise. He has since been rehomed as we only have a roof terrace but he was a fascinating pet. He lived with my lovely grandad and was my mum's pet so he is at the very least late 60's. I used to help my grandad with him from an early age and always cleaned him up when he woke up after hibernation. When my grandad died he came to me.

He was a feisty boy and could climb stairs (well he could climb down them!!)..... was a lovely experience to have a tortoise. And no-one ever confused him with a turtle!

DS3 used to call them turtoises or tortles. My Grandparents has one called Torty (obvs) his gums were like razors if he caught your finger when you fed him.

My tortoise flips himself over regularly. Daft bugger has to wait with his little legs waving in the air until someone spots him and rights him. He never learns though! 🐢

(Mine is also a family pet handed down thriugh the generations and at least 75 years old)

Apes vs. Monkeys here too.

Recent trip to a Primate Centre was a test of tolerance.

My children do this from time to time but I have noticed that on American YouTube channels they call tortoises turtles.

Anyone who uses turtle instead of tortoise round us regrets it as we fall on them and lecture them at length about the differences in biology and ecology of Chelonian reptiles (tortoises, turtles and terrapins). They dont do it twice.

My daft reptiles have come out of hibernation a month early (its not really cold enough) and, in the absence of spring growth are demanding a diet of salad leaves and the chance to rampage through the house. No humping yet but its only a matter of time.

we have a family tortoise that is over 100 years old, he's earned the right to be called the proper name!

You realise that tortoise or turtle is a "common" name either way, you should look up the "proper name" if you're that touchy about it.

Technically all terms are equally valid. Tortoise, turtle and terrapin are common, not scientific terms.
"TheAmerican Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologistsuses "turtle" to describe all species of the order Testudines, regardless of whether they are land-dwelling or sea-dwelling, and uses "tortoise" as a more specific term for slow-moving terrestrial species."

Personally, I dislike the term "terrapin". While working with exotic animals I preferred to use "land turtle" and "aquatic turtle" when discussing with potential and existing customers. It helped avoid any confusion.

Is is tort-us or tort-oiss?

Either way, they don't have flippers.

At the zoo near us they have a sign up asking you not to report to the zoo keepers if the tortoises are upside down, as they will right themselves just fine in time.

I would absolutely love a tortoise.
highwaydragon it’s tort-us surely. I only ever heard Lloyd on Corrie pronounce it as tort-oiss and it really annoyed me!
When I was little my grandmother’s friend had a tortoise and I used to love trying to find him hidden in the garden camouflaged amongst the plants and being amazed at how loud a chewer he was I can’t remember his name now and it’s going to drive me insane!

It annoys me when British people do it because it’s an Americanism and they make me unreasonably ragey.

Oh lots of things, calling the abdomen the 'stomach' and vice versa.
Saying shouldn't 'of' and bored 'of' instead of 'have'. So careless.
The funny public lavatories that look like space ships that popped up in odd spaces during the 1980s. I was always scared that if I went into one, I'd never get out!

Easyish to look after a tortoise is, but lives for donkeys years, so you have to be sure you have someone to pass it to when you die.

Or should I say it lives for tortoises years?

(Doesn't sound the same.)

I always thought they were the same.

I always believed that a turtle is just a tortoise who lives in the water, and a when it lives on the land, it's a tortoise.

They look the same to me.

Pic 1 is a tortoise and pic 2 is a turtle.

As so many people think differently, maybe I am wrong............