BACK IN BORNEO, the forest canopy is dense with little sunlight reaching the forest floor. Forest Tortoise stands up on her back legs, nearly vertical, to reach the lowest leaves of a flowering plant in the elephant ear genus Alocasia (Høybye-Mortensen 2004) #2025MMM - ThreadSky

ldurgavich.bsky.social • 8 days ago

BACK IN BORNEO, the forest canopy is dense with little sunlight reaching the forest floor. Forest Tortoise stands up on her back legs, nearly vertical, to reach the lowest leaves of a flowering plant in the elephant ear genus Alocasia (Høybye-Mortensen 2004) #2025MMM

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scriath.bsky.social•8 days ago

nononono please do not fall backwards

littlemisswoolly.bsky.social•8 days ago

Ahh, a tortoise on his tippy toes #2025MMM

ldurgavich.bsky.social•8 days ago

Forest Tortoise stretches her face forward to grasp the last leaves with her jaw, her bite much like an aquatic turtle, instead of using her tongue to help grasp her food item as more terrestrially-adapted tortoises do. (Natchev et al. 2015) #2025MMM

ldurgavich.bsky.social•8 days ago

#MMMagic translocates Platypus to the thick shrubbery beside Forest Tortoise, but on the side furthest from the stream. Still, the water seems less daunting than this new forest! #2025MMM

natickbobcat.bsky.social•8 days ago

#2025MMM

ldurgavich.bsky.social•8 days ago

Forest Tortoise is not interested in eating any of the stems or branches and begins to drop her massive 50lb body back down to all four legs... #ImYellingTimber (Høybye-Mortensen 2004) #2025MMM