{"id":4877,"date":"2013-02-28T11:30:08","date_gmt":"2013-02-28T10:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/?p=4877"},"modified":"2018-07-12T23:36:22","modified_gmt":"2018-07-12T21:36:22","slug":"turtles-are-cute-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/?p=4877","title":{"rendered":"Turtles are cute&#8230; NOT!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-648\" title=\"video\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/video.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"64\" height=\"64\" \/>If you think of turtles, you may probably think of the cute little shy animal<br \/>\ncrawling slowly over the ground and being lazy. When you watch these<br \/>\nvideos, you might reconsider your thoughts about these animals as they<br \/>\ncan be vicious, too! And I learned today: Turtles can be carnivores!<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Turtles aren&#8217;t strong, you think? Pigeons are hard to catch? For us humans, pigeons are for sure hard to catch but turtles seem to be a tad quicker than pigeons want them to be.<br \/>\nWith fatal results, as this video is undoubtedly prooving:<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 640px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-4877-1\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Tortoise-Eats-Pigeon.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Tortoise-Eats-Pigeon.mp4\">https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Tortoise-Eats-Pigeon.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p>\nThis pigeon had no chance to fight it&#8217;s enemy and I was surprised to see turtles to be carnivores!<\/p>\n<p>But turtles seem to be much braver as we think. This video again shows that turtles&#8217; enemies can&#8217;t be big enough. This cat will learn to pay attention to a slow-pacing turtle:<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 640px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-4877-2\" width=\"640\" height=\"352\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/My-turtle-bites-my-cat-pretty-hard_.mp4?_=2\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/My-turtle-bites-my-cat-pretty-hard_.mp4\">https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/My-turtle-bites-my-cat-pretty-hard_.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p>\nAlthough I feel sort of sorry for the cat being bitten, this tag remembers me of Tom&amp;Jerry &#8211; Sleepy Time Tom (at 5:30) later on when the filmer makes a close zoom on the turtle&#8217;s beak!<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 640px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-4877-3\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Sleepy-Time-Tom.mp4?_=3\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Sleepy-Time-Tom.mp4\">https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Sleepy-Time-Tom.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p>If you think, turtles&#8217; enemies stop at cats, then you&#8217;re wrong, as the following video is prooving. Not even dogs scare turtles. Poor little fella. I guess this puppy has painfully learned one lesson: Turtles aren&#8217;t cute!<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 640px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-4877-4\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Turtle-Bites-Puppy.mp4?_=4\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Turtle-Bites-Puppy.mp4\">https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Turtle-Bites-Puppy.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p>\nIt got the puppy right on the nose. It&#8217;s one of the dogs&#8217; most sensitive body part.<\/p>\n<p>And not even big dogs scare turtles away as this video is prooving. In this case, the dog is for sure having it&#8217;s <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">most painful<\/span> event in it&#8217;s <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">whole life<\/span>! When you watch this, you may understand, why I have underlined some words in the preceeding sentence.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 640px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-4877-5\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Tortoise-bite-dog-testicle.mp4?_=5\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Tortoise-bite-dog-testicle.mp4\">https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Tortoise-bite-dog-testicle.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p>The following cat is patient and lets the turtle crawl around. But at the end the turtle is<br \/>\nannoyed and bites the cat painfully.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 1280px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-4877-6\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/ginger-cat-gets-bullied-by-baby-tortoise.mp4?_=6\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/ginger-cat-gets-bullied-by-baby-tortoise.mp4\">https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/ginger-cat-gets-bullied-by-baby-tortoise.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p>\nLesson lerned in this case: Turtles are small but when they hit you, they hit you hard!<\/p>\n<h3>CONCLUSION:<\/h3>\n<p>Although turtles seem to be nice, they can hurt bad as these videos about animals have shown! And there are also tales about turtles biting off fingers of men trying to feed or pet them. I, myself, have already been convinced of the turtles&#8217; beak power early in school when a colleague gave his turtle a wooden stick with approx 1cm diameter to play. That little turtle instantly has crushed the stick into two pieces without any great effort. So you can only guess how strong they can bite you. Probably something you wouldn&#8217;t witness for real!<\/p>\n<h3>THE AFTERMATH:<\/h3>\n<p>Also turtles can become victims of even bigger animals. In this case an allgator caught a turtle!<\/p>\n<input type='hidden' bg_collapse_expand='6a006f2130ccb7010448204' value='6a006f2130ccb7010448204'><input type='hidden' id='bg-show-more-text-6a006f2130ccb7010448204' value='View video anyway!'><input type='hidden' id='bg-show-less-text-6a006f2130ccb7010448204' value='Hide it!'><button id='bg-showmore-action-6a006f2130ccb7010448204' class='bg-showmore-plg-button bg-blue-button bg-eye '   style=\" color:#000000;\">View video anyway!<\/button><div id='bg-showmore-hidden-6a006f2130ccb7010448204' ><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-913\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/attention.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"64\" height=\"64\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/attention.png 256w, https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/attention-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 64px) 100vw, 64px\" \/>Warning! This video has graphic content and may be unsuitable for younger viewers!<br \/>\nOnly proceed with playback if you really intend to and make sure that no one in your audience might be irritated to see these pictures!<\/p>\n<p><div style=\"width: 640px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-4877-7\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Alligator-Crushes-Turtle-Warning-Graphic-Footage.mp4?_=7\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Alligator-Crushes-Turtle-Warning-Graphic-Footage.mp4\">https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Alligator-Crushes-Turtle-Warning-Graphic-Footage.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div><\/p>\n<p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you think of turtles, you may probably think of the cute little shy animal crawling slowly over the ground and being lazy. When you watch these videos, you might reconsider your thoughts about these animals as they can be vicious, too! And I learned today: Turtles can be carnivores!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,434,150],"tags":[781,695,2465,2464,2463],"class_list":["post-4877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-curiosities","category-nature-2","category-video","tag-cat","tag-dog","tag-pigeon","tag-tortoise","tag-turtle"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4877\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}