Posted: 5/27/2011 4:57:36 AM EDT
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cross the road perpendicularly?
Every turtle I've seen crossing the road is taking the shortest route across. Is this some sort of internal GPS?? Discuss. |
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Because they usually the climb with both thier front feet perp to the object they're climbing.
Throw a book in front of your pet turtle and set him in front of it diagnol. He'll straighten out before climbiing it. Unless he just spins around and leaves. At least that how my eastern box behaved. My eastern box would stop every 10 feet and "spy hop". Stretch his head and front legs as high as he could get them and look around. So it is possible they do look around to figure out where to go. And that makes sense, because they would never get anywhere if they weren't careful about how they get there, at the speed they move. |
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Perpendiculary?
I see turtles crossing diagonally or walking down the middle of the road almost everyday. Some of the make it and others do not. I always will pull over to carry a turtle off the road if it isn't too dangerous due to heavy, fast traffic and I have a pair of heavy linesman's gloves in my car to assist the big, nasty ones. eTA; some of them are damn fast movers as well. |
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Got to believe they can see the other side of the road and it's about internal heat regulation since they're reptiles. Get down on your hands and kness on a hot road and see which route you take! Dude thinks like a turtle! Interesting. . . . Ahh, to think like a turtle... the power, the power. 
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