A Tortoise Is a Turtle
Many people wonder what the difference is between a tortoise and a turtle. Even you may have seen a tortoise and made the “mistake” of calling it a turtle. What is a tortoise, though? The truth is, a tortoise is a type of turtle. Tortoises fall in the Testudines or Chelonia order, which means that they are all turtles. They are different in the sense that they’re exclusively land wanderers, they have a special diet, and they have a few unique aesthetic features. However, you’re not wrong for saying “turtle.”
Tortoise Or Turtle?
Turtle Cleanup
Back in the 1980s, India’s government realized that there was a pollution issue after cremations were performed on the banks of the Ganges River. The corpses were usually dumped into it after, but they didn’t always completely burn. Additionally, corpses were thrown in unburnt when people couldn’t afford to do the cremation. To solve this, the government bred a special set of turtles with a taste for the flesh of the dead and released them into the river. The $32 million plan failed after the turtles were hunted and killed for meat.
A Group Of Turtles
