A week’s animal|Soft -shell turtles can move at a tremendous pace.
“Police took the turtle, ”Hesari reported recently. The title made me wonder if the arrest was preceded by a fierce chase. Perhaps the fleeing turtle took over the curve and wandered over?
However, according to the news, passers -by grabbed the horticultural villain and police came after a call made at the emergency center.
For real There are turtles that can escape even the police. Such are soft -bark turtles, or soft turtles. They are characterized by a flexible shell that allows them to move much more supple than other racing.
The frightened soft turtle can be splashed into the fluffy rinks at a speed of up to 20 kilometers per hour. So five meters per second! It can already be caught by man.
Below video Shows how fast the soft turtle goes to the paw.
Soft turtles live around the world and there are dozens of species. They thrive in sweet waters but not in the ocean. Their shell is smooth and leather and not at all doped. As with other turtles.
Soft turtle is undoubtedly the fastest runner in the racing community. Nevertheless, in the Guinness Book of Records, the fastest turtle in the world is a small leopard turtle called Bertie. Guinness when only measures the records that are offered to it.
Bertie lives in England and ten years ago toddler Under Guinness supervision, a 5.5 -meter -long track at 19:59. So the Bertie record was 28 cents per second.
Maybe Bertie will invest in long distances. It is a marathoner, while the soft turtle is a sprinter, turtle cheetah.
Turtles Of course, they are also meritorious swimmers. The fastest turtle in the ocean is known to be a marine turtle Dermochelys Coriacea. It is a rugged, up to three meters long.
The momentary record speed of the floating marine turtle has been clocked by a whopping 35.28 kilometers per hour. It no longer keeps the fisherman’s outboard-Buster behind.