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3 unusual facts about Turtle


Inhassoro

The bay off Inhassaro is popular with scuba divers with the reefs and the area is a seasonal home to many species of Dolphin, Turtle, the rare and endangered Dugong or Sea Cow, Whale sharks, Manta Rays and Humpback whales.

Ralph Bates

Because of his French ancestry and dark looks, he was often chosen to play a Frenchman on television, as for instance in a second series episode of ITV comedy drama Turtle's Progress.

Turtle: The Incredible Journey

Turtle: The Incredible Journey is a 2009 documentary film narrated by Miranda Richardson and directed by Nick Stringer.


Angul district

Reptiles like the Gharial, mugger crocodile, fresh water turtle and poisonous and non-poisonous snakes can also be sighted.

Artificial sunlight

Also, some animals like the Red-eared slider turtle are benefited of having those lights fitted on their aquariums.

Augustin de La Balme

In northeast Indiana, near the Allen – Whitley County line, along the Eel River, A brass and stone marker placed by the Daughters of the American Revolution in 1930, reads: "In memory of Col. Augustin de La Balme and his soldiers who were killed in battle with the Miami Indians under Little Turtle at this place, November 5, 1780."

Ayotle

The name Ayotle comes from the word Ayotl, which means turtle shell in Nahuatl, the original language

Black terrapin

Black marsh turtle (Siebenrockiella crassicollis), a geoemydid turtle found in Southeast Asia.

Black river turtle (Rhinoclemmys funerea), a geoemydid turtle found in Central America.

Black turtle bean

Black turtle bean is a small, shiny variety of common beans (Phaseolus vulgaris), especially popular in Latin American cuisine, though it can also be found in Cajun and Creole cuisines of south Louisiana.

Black-bridged leaf turtle

Eastern black-bridged leaf turtle (Cyclemys pulchristiata), an Asian leaf turtle found in Eastern Cambodia and Vietnam.

Boissevain, Manitoba

Boissevain, not far from Turtle Mountain and Turtle Mountain Provincial Park, also formerly hosted the "International Turtle Derby", a turtle race, each summer.

Deepo's Undersea 3D Wondershow

These include a singing shark, a sea turtle named "Searetha" (who sings a cover version of Aretha Franklin's song "Think") and playful dolphins.

Devil and the Deep

However, in the following year's film version of Alice in Wonderland, Grant played the Mock Turtle and Cooper played the White Knight, having their only movie scene together (of sorts) as the entire cast appears in the tea party scene (including W.C. Fields as Humpty Dumpty).

Disney Fantasy

While the Animator's Palate on Disney Dream presents a dinner show with Crush the Sea Turtle from Disney/Pixar's Finding Nemo, the Fantasy, in addition, presents an "Animation Magic" dinner show hosted by Sorcerer Mickey, where guests have a chance to draw their own characters and see their drawings come to life.

Ernest Goes to Camp

The song used to detach the box turtle from Ernest's nose is "Happy Together," a song which was written and recorded by the musical group The Turtles.

Frank, Alberta

In 1901, American entrepreneurs Sam Gebo and Henry Frank developed the first of many coal mines in the Crowsnest Pass, in the base of Turtle Mountain.

Hoan Kiem turtle

The Hoàn Kiếm turtle (Rafetus leloii) is a controversial taxon of turtle from Southeast Asia, with one known living specimen in Hoàn Kiếm Lake in Hanoi, Vietnam.

Jennifer Fallon

She is published by Snapping Turtle Books worldwide, in addition to some titles through Voyager Books in Australia, Tor and Random House in the United States, Orbit in the UK, AST in Russia, Heyne and Egmont in Germany and Luitingh Fantasy in The Netherlands.

José Bozzano

The dockyards produced more than 300,000 hand grenades, the famous carumbe `i (Guaraní for "little turtle"), which, for the pride of Paraguayans in the war, proved more effective than the Belgian designed SIP grenades, used by the Bolivian army) and built and assembled the coachworks of 2,308 trucks (at a rate of five per hour).

Kate Bornstein

Bornstein and partner Barbara Carrellas live in New York City with three cats, two dogs and a turtle.

KTurtle

The KTurtle language and IDE are limited to teaching programming using turtle graphics, and is not intended for other applications.

Leith's softshell turtle

Leith's softshell turtle (Nilssonia leithii) is a species of turtle found in peninsular Indian rivers including the Bhavani, Godavari, and Moyar Rivers.

Loggerhead musk turtle

It gets its name from its unusually large head, compared to the common musk turtle (Sternotherus odoratus).

M. gouldii

Myobatrachus gouldii, the turtle frog, a frog species found in Western Australia

Mata mata

The mata mata was described for the first time by French naturalist Pierre Barrère in 1741 as a "large land turtle with spiky and ridged scales" (translation).

Mickael Turtle

Mickael Turtle (a.k.a. Mickael the Turtle) from New Caledonia (France) is a fictional turtle who hit the French music charts with a reworking of the Ghostbusters theme.

Mock turtle soup

In the Oldenburg and Ammerland regions of Germany, Mockturtlesuppe—the English designation "mock turtle" retained—is a traditional meal, dating from the time of the personal union between the Kingdom of Hanover and the Kingdom of Great Britain.

Murray River turtle

The specific epithet of the species refers to the turtle's type location: the Macquarie River, it would seem the species was not named after Governor Lachlan Macquarie for whom the river is also named.

Namibe Province

Near the coast of the Bentiaba desert have been found Late Cretaceous fossils of sharks, turtles, mosasaurs, plesiosaurs and sauropods.

Northern Chinese softshell turtle

The Northern Chinese softshell turtle, Pelodiscus maackii, is a species of turtle found in the Russian Far East, northeastern China and Korea.

Pairi Daiza

The "ship" also includes the zoo's rescue center for animals such as pythons, boas, iguanas, turtles, and alligators which were handed over or abandoned by former owners who could no longer care for them.

Playa Grande

Las Baulas National Marine Park, a Costa Rican national park also known as "Playa Grande Marine Turtle National Park"

RetroShare

File transfer is carried on using a multi-hop swarming system (inspired by the "Turtle Hopping" feature from the Turtle F2F project, but implemented differently).

Seven fires prophecy

From the cultural center on Manitoulin Island, the Ojibwe moved to the area about Sault Ste. Marie, where there was the next "turtle-shaped island" marked by miigis shell.

Simon Dow

More recently horses such as Birkspiel (owned by Soccer AM's Helen Chamberlain) Aurigny, Nagnagnag, Turtle Valley, Gallery God, Bettalatethannever and Quantum Leap have kept the winners flowing.

Skivvy

Polo neck or turtle neck shirt, (primarily in the United States and Australasia)

St Ivo School

Notable animals that were kept included a snapper turtle, an African rock python, a tokay gecko and Round Island skinks.

St. Johns culture

Investigation of a site at Hontoon Island indicated that fresh water snails, fish and turtles provided most of the meat consumed at the site, and that those resources were exploited year-round.

Temple turtle

Black marsh turtle (Siebenrockiella crassicollis), a Southeast Asian geoemydid turtle species also known as the Siamese temple turtle and kept in Buddhist temples.

Terrific Whatzit

An ordinary turtle wearing the classic Terrific Whatzit costume is seen in DC Super Friends #14 (June 2009), as the adopted pet of the Flash.

Thalassia testudinum

Turtle grass is found growing in meadows in calm shallow waters throughout the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico and as far north as Cape Canaveral in Florida.

The Painted Turtle

The Painted Turtle was founded in 1999 by Phi Kappa Tau Fraternity Alumnus Paul Newman and Page and Lou Adler.

Trionyx

Trionyx triunguis (Forsskål, 1775) – African or Nile softshell turtle

Turtle Magazine

Renowned comic book writer Justin Gray contributed scripts for Turtle’s comics pages for several years.

Turtle Rock Preschool

Turtle Rock Preschool (TRP) is a private preschool, kindergarten and after school academy located in the city of Irvine, California.

Voice of the Turtle

Voice of the Turtle sings in a variety of languages typical of Sephardic music, including not only Spanish, Hebrew, and English, but also Judeo-Spanish (Ladino), Aramaic, Yiddish, Judeo-Italian, Judeo-Provencal, and Judeo-Arabic.

Western Gulf coastal grasslands

Rancho Nuevo beach in Tamaulipas is the only nesting site in the world for the Kemp's Ridley sea turtle (Lepidochelys kempii) while other herpetofauna of the ecoregion include Río Grande Chirping Frog (Eleutherodactylus cystignathoides) and Mexican White-lipped Frog (Leptodactylus fragilis).

Zhenping County, Henan

The Henan Kangyuan Softshell Turtle Farm (河南省南阳镇平县康苑鳖业有限公司), located in Zhenping County's Jiasong Town is one of China's largest facilities for raising the Yellow River Turtle (黄河鳖), a variety of the Chinese softshell turtle.

ZooParc de Beauval

At the beginning of this house is a vivarium, home to one hundred Snakes, as well as Turtles and Nile crocodiles that can be observed underwater.


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