Does anyone else feel strangely calm when seeing this photograph?
Does anyone else feel strangely calm when seeing this photograph?
My brain goes all mushy and mellow when it notices that I'm apparently in proximity of a slower kind of a fellow. 🐢
(Close-up of a radiated tortoise (astrochelys radiata*) , from Wikimedia Commons)
(* Everything is more awesome when you put astro- in it)
It's 3AM here. I went from,
Spiderweb, Spiderweb, Spiderweb (moderately alert)
To,
Oh, turtle-shell (calm)
So yes. Very calming
Also thought it was webs in a sunbeam for a sec. The opposite of calming, really.
Nope
I always feel strangely calm when I see a turtle just chillin'.
Same energy as capybaras.
Nice pic! The texture of the shell is so clear.
I guess it's more awe than calm for me.
Nah. The pattern is cool as hell though.
Weird, yes it does. It's not that it's a tortoise, it's just the pattern and lighting I think. Cool photo!
Yes!
I have a pic like this from a sulcata tortoise! She was just wandering around my neighborhood one afternoon, had apparently escaped her enclosure.
I had it set as my desktop at one point. One of my coworkers at the time, who was few screws short of osha standards, was staring at one day when I came back to my desk.
She goes, “Is that the Balkans?”
This happened over a decade ago & I still have no idea where that came from…
I like tortles.
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