I saw the video on CNN.com. It rolls over, plays dead and shakes a claw. A behavioural psychologist spent ten years training the reptile.
When I was a kid we had a tortoise named Torpid. He did two memorable things. He shat all over my Mary Poppins Pop-up Book, and he ran away. Yes, we put him outside to stretch his legs and he was a bit better at it than we thought.
A turtle that does tricks?
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Never saw a turtle that did tricks. Allegra, did you have a link for the turtle video??
I don’t have a link but it’s on the front page of CNN or was this morning. You could probably search on turtle. It’s cute as hell!
I watched the turtle video and you’re right it is so cute. I had no idea turtles were capable of this kind of interaction with humans. If anyone wants to see it, the link is:
http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/bestoftv/2008/01/15/ac360.shot.turtle.cnn?iref=videosearch