Do turtles have ears? What's to deal? So they, i wouldn't call them ears, ok? They are called nubbins, really. Tet's ameallit. You will call em nubbins. K, it's mostly through vibration, is how they're hearing. It's am, soye, you're not seeing an ear. If you were to whisper to a turtle how much you liked it, do you think it could hear you? I don't know. All right. According to sadelo's comprehensive text book of auto lyringology, it is noticed that a noise band for whispers begins at 500 hurts. And perhaps the oldest living land animal
We're bringing back one shell of an episode with today's encore. What's a tortoise? What's a turtle? Why do they live so dang long? What's up with their junk? Wildlife biologist and testudinologist Amanda Hipps studies gopher tortoises and dishes about turtle nomenclature, cliques, dicks, behavior, burrows, evolution, habitats and more. If you don't dig tortoises yet, you're about to fall deep into a turtle tunnel in love with them.
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