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#1: Jan Wolter (jan) on Nov 17, 2006

Ah, how cute!

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Thanks :)

OOOOOO - that site was to up close & personal for me, gave me the shivers, you could even see their fangs & such..

What I have always called Daddy Long Legs are the things in Jan's pictures, I think. They loooove to hang out in the bathrooms at the lake when we go camping!

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You never know with those two. Their turtle Speedy ran away while they were cleaning his cage, so anything is possible.

She was REALLY Speedy!!??

Yes she was.

The painted turtles which are native to Michigan (and widely sold in pet stores) are pretty good sprinters. They can cover a lot of ground if they are feeling like it. In the water they are faster still.

I think the slowness story about turtles must be based on tortoises. I'm no expert on tortoises. The ones I met in Texas tended to move slowly while you were watching them, but then disappeared if you looked away for very long, so maybe they had some secret sprinting capacity too.

We have two tortoises at the aquarium I volunteer at and they are relatively slow and clumsy. One of them is named speedy too. I guess that's a common name for turtles.

If I remember correctly from 6th grade science, technically tortises are land based and turtles are sea/water based. Although that could be just a generalization or completely incorrect, it's been a while since I was in 6th grade. :)

Like frogs and toads?

Maybe... What's the difference between frogs and toads?

Technically, I think toads are actually a subclass of frogs. In ordinary usage though, toads mostly live on land and have adaptations for life on land, like warty skin instead of slimy skin, and shorter legs for walking instead of longer legs for swimming/jumping. Toads and frogs both lay eggs in the water.

I think all turtles/tortoises lay their eggs on land, including sea turtles who spend every other part of their life in water. Informally, if it has flippers, it's a "sea turtle", if it webbed feet then it's a "turtle", and if it has un-webbed feet it's a "tortoise", except in Australia, where I believe everything except sea turtles is a "tortoise".

I think turtles are fast because when they are on land they are generally basking in the sun at the edge of a pond or river. If something comes at them, a short burst of speed is useful for returning to the water. A tortoise is not generally near shelter, so responding to an emergency with a burst of speed isn't really useful. They just trust in their armor instead.

If you kiss a frog you get a prince, if you kiss a toad you get warts.

LOL! I'll remember that! But I think we mostly have toads around here!

We got snakes here. :(

What do snakes become when you kiss them?

Angry.

Good answer!

LOL

you all are crazy :)

But that's what makes us interesting. :)

Jan, maybe turtles are speedy on land so as to get away from the people who want to kiss them.

I thought people wanted to kiss frogs. ?!?!?!

My friend went to kiss her turtle once and it chomped down on her nose. Left a nasty cut. So I don't think they need to be speedy for that reason. haha. They can take care of themselves when threatened with human affection.

I'm happy to hear that turtles are not defenseless when it comes to unwanted affection.

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do Russian tortoises live a very very long time?

Yes... about 40 years, actually.

Now that's a commitment.

Will she actually live that long in her little cage? Doubtful.

i just thought of something monkey. We both are seemingly having the most exciting friday night ever. :)

well now I'm feeling left out :(

Well, I actually am, even if you weren't serious! I enjoy doing puzzles and talking to people.

:( ...now I'm really feeling left out

Come on, now... you know we love you! Come join our party!

awwww another love fest & I'm included

Always!

oh, see, now I'm going to read and go to bed. :)
hi naneki!

Awwww, have a good night!

good night nieboo

Look at what I missed!
Goodnight John Boy...

Who is John Boy?

It's from that show back in the day. At the end they would all say goodnight to each other. and then goodnight john boy.

Ah. Gotcha. In a not-understanding-because-I-haven't-seen-it
sort of way. :-)

Hey! It looks like all 3 of us are on site at the same time!

Chat anyone?

Sometimes I wonder if you grew up in a confined area Adam. Either that or you are much younger than you want us to believe.

So...I'm late to the conversation, but I will add that my daddy-longlegs are harvestmen (never knew that name before), and because I have a son who used to pull the legs off of insects, I can corroborate the wiggling legs story.

I always called crane flies "mayflies," until I actually saw real mayflies. Now I call them crane flies, even though most Southerners seem to call them mosquito hawks or skeeter-eaters, because they look like big, floppy mosquitos.

And John Boy was the main character from The Waltons. I never watched it as a kid, but I first heard a reference to it on You Can't Do That On Television (the very best show on Nickelodeon, in its early years).

My DLL is a harvestman (which term I never heard before today). When I was in school I took a course on medicinal plants and our goofy professor told us that the deadly poison in a particular plant was produced by the dll but it's jaws were too small to bite us. (After I followed Jan's link I found this: http://www.burkemuseum.org/spidermyth/myths/daddyvenom.html. mm hm.)

That was a fun solve!

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