Friday, July 27, 2012

The fast and the furious



Being turtles is often associated with people who are slow in work or have a hard time catching up to classes and lessons. This unfair to the turtle because they may move slowly on land but some of these creatures swim fast when in the water. For example the fastest claimed and proven speed of any reptile is 22 mph by a frightened pacific leatherback turtle. And its cousin the sea green turtle has been known to travel great distances with speeds of 20 mph. A marine green turtle was once recorded to have travelled for 480 kilometers in a span of 10 days. This is hardly any work of slow moving and slow thinking individuals.

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