Blanding’s turtles are of interest in longevity research, as they show little to no common signs of aging and are physically active and capable of reproduction into eight or nine decades of life.
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Blanding’s turtles are of interest in longevity research, as they show little to no common signs of aging and are physically active and capable of reproduction into eight or nine decades of life.
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They are struggling to thrive because of how long it takes them to reach sexual maturity, and humans goal to build something everywhere they can as fast as they can. I used to trap them for a couple projects, one being a genetic survey. Those were fun summers though!
This is what peak performance looks like.
My mother in law found one when it was a baby in November, she feared it wouldn’t survive the winter so she brought it in as a pet, that was like 9 years ago. She had no idea what it’s species was or its longevity.
No wonder it looks like its smiling
Just like lobsters, cool. They don’t even have to moult their shell, which is what stops lobsters from living forever.
My favorite is still Tardigrades (water bears). They can survive in outer space by putting their body into dehydrated stasis. When they start to rehydrate and come back to life, they will take in genetic information from the environment and use it to adapt their genetics in real time.
Look at him, he knows something alright and he ain’t gonna tell us
I saw one in the wild one time and it was like finding a unicorn I was so excited lol
So cute
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blanding%27s_turtle
:3
More to life than horniness my friends
The part of the rat tickling research
Daww look at that smile… LOOK AT IT!!
that turtle looks active in mating into it’s eighth or ninth decade, hubba, hubba
Probably worth noting that physically, that was jarring.
That shell looks so smooth and that face is so cute
It looks like its diehard into sound recording.
Look at that virile smirk. He knows. 😉
“Oh, so glad you are okay.
thts the smirk you make when you know you can get laid for longer than the person holding you
:}
It looks like its diehard into sound recording.
It looks like its diehard into sound recording.
This man is aging in reverse
Little did I know when I was a kid that turtles would become the universal sign for geriatric sex.
Yeah thats really cool. But also… look at that smile. He said “:)”
:3 😳
I hope to God Mitch McConnell isn’t a Blanding’s turtle.
He knows what you’re thinking 😉
They look happy too. We should try and figure out that part as well.
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no sir, thats the alchemical hydra
As do the rest of this porn.
The part of the rat tickling research
> That’s no samurai castles near me.
So that is how you know their signs?
China has entered the chat
There are a whole different level of poor.
Super active schedule and he’ll take it!
Next thing y’know we discover an elder civilisation, make stacks, and we just become sleeves
Smug sonofabitch.
That thing has seen the ages go by and is now very eccentric.
it looks like a snake is coming out of the turtles head
But do they DIIIIIIIEEEEEE?
Give me some of that sweet, sweet turtle meat! Daddy needs longevity!