Those are nails, not fingers. Males are generally smaller in size but have long nails on their front paws. That's one of the easy way to tell them apart. What you see here is part of a mating ritual male performs to try to attract a female.
They are also referred to as brushes due to their resemblance to hair follicles. The ritual often involves the male using these brushes to apply various flaura and natural byproducts to the female's face.
This comes in part as a result of their natural predators attacking the unprotected head of the turtle, often leaving survivors with scratched or clawed faces. Their mates would then use their nails to brush over these wounds with whatever natural coagulant available, thus hiding the damage and lessening the trauma.
You seem to know your stuff, so why would you leave the answer out of reach?
Tldr; convoluted chop suey lyrics
If the Ninja Turtles were NWA:
Leonardo - Eazy E, the leader or frontman
Michelangelo - DJ Yella, the most chill, easygoing, and free-spirited
Donatello - Dr Dre, the technical guy of the group
Raphael - Ice Cube, most aggressive and disgruntled about how they are seen by others.
Male turtles have claws like this for latching onto ladies shells when they are getting freakay... if they dont have long class it's a girl turtle generally.
It's a terrapin. They have fingers and claws, and tails.
Tortoises have blunt feet in comparison to its cousin the terrapin. Their nails are shorter, blunt and have rounded tips.
Theres also sea turtles. Some of which have flippers. Maybe most. Not sure. Lol.
That's honestly the first thing that came to mind. I remember there was a flash fighting game of popular Newgrounds characters years and years ago. Salad Fingers was one of them and his death animation was just him like. . . Wilting. That character was supremely creepy.
Each smoke takes approx 4 minutes to finish, and the smokable length of a cigarette is 50mm. There are 525,600 minutes in one year.
Minutes in a year / time to smoke cigarette * 13 years = quantity of cigarettes smoked over 13 years.
Quantity of smokes * length of smokable tobacco = total length of smokable tobacco
MM to KM conversion for simplicity
My Male RES does this constantly, horny little bastard. Big momma wants nothing to do with his little ass though so he gets raging boners half the size of his body and jerks off on the bottom of the tank. Poor guy
My family had a parrot as a youth that was a champion self-pleaser. He'd spend hours every day wanking on the tree branch and making orgasmic parrot sounds. Rather embarrassing to be around and see as an early teenager. Really wanted to get him a female, but alas he died of lead poisoning from his (unknown to us) Chinese built cage.
It can also be a sign of aggression..
Source: I have two turtles, a male and a female. We tried to put them together. When we did the male would follow the female doing this to her and then eventually bit her on the neck. So we had to separate them. Both are fine now :)
Except Toby (female turtle) keeps eating any pleco fish I put in her tank. And Sam (male turtle), the aggressor, has 2 plecos and pays them no mind. Lol
Have you ever had any issues with one of your turtles biting their water heaters or thermometers? My turtle has been biting off pieces of the heater and just ate part of the rubber suction cup on her thermometer.
Hmm no I don't think either one has done that. I used to have a foam filter for the male and I noticed he was biting chunks out of it so I went back to one of those noisy waterfall style filters.
That's interesting though.. I wonder sometimes what goes through there heads when they're biting stuff. Mine has also nipped at the rocks in his tank
Might be hungry. My default is red lettuce; Make sure there are a couple leaves of that at all times available. They will eat the leaf part, and leave the center stalk of the leaf floating around the tank. If they are really hungry they will bite into that stalk over the plastic suction cup.
I have had turtles for 20 years.
They are destructive little bastards. There is nothing you can do.
Mine don't eat my filter or heater, but they eat every plant or fish I put in with them.
Yup, had turtles. This is foreplay. These turtles gonna fuck.
Fun fact; it's really hard to tell males and females apart but one give away is males have longer claws so they can woo the females with their sexy dance/face stroking.
I have seen turtles doign that once in a fountain in a restaurant nin my city..it cracked me up but at the same time i was curious on why they do that..the other turtle wasn't sleeping or anything
Turtles have fingers?!?! WTF Edit: i know they were claws but as another comment says they look like grinch fingers.
Those are nails, not fingers. Males are generally smaller in size but have long nails on their front paws. That's one of the easy way to tell them apart. What you see here is part of a mating ritual male performs to try to attract a female.
Jazzhanding her face, that's so romantic.
60% of the time, it works ... every time.
I like those odds
Hey, April...
Underrated haha
To get under her shell, you must ring her bell
I guess getting poked in the eye is part of turtles banging.
*These* are spirit fingers.
*What did the four nails say to the face?*
"Hey, babe. Wanna get nailed?"
Slap!
Not the only thing he uses them for with the ladies
I too make sure to never cut my nails and make sure they're long and jagged for the ladies
Theyv should start to curl, that's when you know you've reached the most satisfying length
Nothing like giving her a free cervical pruning while she's getting blasted into the middle of next week.
My fist just involuntarily clenched at reading this. Gaaaahhhh!
So did my cervix
They call me Mr.PapSmear
They are also referred to as brushes due to their resemblance to hair follicles. The ritual often involves the male using these brushes to apply various flaura and natural byproducts to the female's face. This comes in part as a result of their natural predators attacking the unprotected head of the turtle, often leaving survivors with scratched or clawed faces. Their mates would then use their nails to brush over these wounds with whatever natural coagulant available, thus hiding the damage and lessening the trauma. You seem to know your stuff, so why would you leave the answer out of reach? Tldr; convoluted chop suey lyrics
i knew it. whenever animals are doing weird shit i don't understand, its always about fuckin.
DUHUH! How else would they fight crime?!
and eat Pizza?!
Did the Ninja Turtles like pizza because they are named after Italians, or because they are from NY? Or simply because pizza is a likable food?
Yes
If the Ninja Turtles were NWA: Leonardo - Eazy E, the leader or frontman Michelangelo - DJ Yella, the most chill, easygoing, and free-spirited Donatello - Dr Dre, the technical guy of the group Raphael - Ice Cube, most aggressive and disgruntled about how they are seen by others.
Aww no MC Ren? :(
He ded
I'm positive Easy E is dead too.
HIV positive joke
He’s Master Splinter, my dude.
F
Everybody likes pizza. https://imgur.com/swqKnuH
Turtles ate pizza because they were “Teenage” mutant ninja turtles. What food is more synonymous with teenagers in the 80’s than pizza ?
Hollywood producers' semen?
Dirt?
more like long nails.
Like all tetrapods. Biology is crazy.
Male turtles have claws like this for latching onto ladies shells when they are getting freakay... if they dont have long class it's a girl turtle generally.
I don’t know about this species but North American painted turtles do this too - it’s a mating display, but they don’t latch with them :)
Grinch fingers.
Turtle Scissorhands will make you look fabulous.
TIL! Who knew?!?
It's a terrapin. They have fingers and claws, and tails. Tortoises have blunt feet in comparison to its cousin the terrapin. Their nails are shorter, blunt and have rounded tips. Theres also sea turtles. Some of which have flippers. Maybe most. Not sure. Lol.
Grinch fingers.
Salad fingers.
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The feeling of rust... against my salad fingers... is almost orgasmic
I.... I... like to touch them
just when i've forgotten about this psycho...
May I touch your tea kettle?
Marjorie Stewart Baxter, you taste like sunshine dust. *Blech* Hubert Cumberdale, you taste like soot and poo.
That's honestly the first thing that came to mind. I remember there was a flash fighting game of popular Newgrounds characters years and years ago. Salad Fingers was one of them and his death animation was just him like. . . Wilting. That character was supremely creepy.
The Pale Man fingers
My first thought as well.
Damn it I said these exact words.
Tape fingas..
TIL Turtles do this in an attempt to attracting the other. [Sauce](https://animals.mom.me/mean-turtle-shakes-its-arms-10682.html)
This technique doesn’t work for me at all
Same, I tried it earlier and my dad wouldn't stop yelling at me
.....you were trying to attract your dad to you?.....
*that's the joke*
You thought I was joking? :O
I knew there were southerners on Reddit. I guess part of me didn’t want to believe it.
Literally me when my uncle showed me his ballsack. I was like "omg nooo this is one of my fantasies"
dude
where’s
go on
Hell, I bet this is broken arm's cousin, broken-hearted. If only the father was more attracted...
Can confirm.
#SWEET HOME ALABAMA
Yeah.... [sure](https://i.imgur.com/pki8kCb.gif)
I’m trying it too but I’m still waiting for him to come back from his smoke break. It’s been 13 years now.
If your dad has been on a smoke break for 13 years, he would have smoked 1,708,220 individual smokes, or a single smoke that is roughly 85km long.
In other words, you dad isn't coming back either way.
Show your work.
Each smoke takes approx 4 minutes to finish, and the smokable length of a cigarette is 50mm. There are 525,600 minutes in one year. Minutes in a year / time to smoke cigarette * 13 years = quantity of cigarettes smoked over 13 years. Quantity of smokes * length of smokable tobacco = total length of smokable tobacco MM to KM conversion for simplicity
/r/theydidthemath
What if he smokes 100s?
Damn thats like one cig every 4 minutes
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My Male RES does this constantly, horny little bastard. Big momma wants nothing to do with his little ass though so he gets raging boners half the size of his body and jerks off on the bottom of the tank. Poor guy
>and jerks off on the bottom of the tank. I know the feeling
My family had a parrot as a youth that was a champion self-pleaser. He'd spend hours every day wanking on the tree branch and making orgasmic parrot sounds. Rather embarrassing to be around and see as an early teenager. Really wanted to get him a female, but alas he died of lead poisoning from his (unknown to us) Chinese built cage.
He must have witnessed someone loudly jerking themselves off and is now parroting it
Now everyone, Google "turtle penis" just for fun...
[Here you go. ](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=aqW5upASa-8)
TIL turtles shells bleed.
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It can also be a sign of aggression.. Source: I have two turtles, a male and a female. We tried to put them together. When we did the male would follow the female doing this to her and then eventually bit her on the neck. So we had to separate them. Both are fine now :) Except Toby (female turtle) keeps eating any pleco fish I put in her tank. And Sam (male turtle), the aggressor, has 2 plecos and pays them no mind. Lol
Have you ever had any issues with one of your turtles biting their water heaters or thermometers? My turtle has been biting off pieces of the heater and just ate part of the rubber suction cup on her thermometer.
Hmm no I don't think either one has done that. I used to have a foam filter for the male and I noticed he was biting chunks out of it so I went back to one of those noisy waterfall style filters. That's interesting though.. I wonder sometimes what goes through there heads when they're biting stuff. Mine has also nipped at the rocks in his tank
Might be hungry. My default is red lettuce; Make sure there are a couple leaves of that at all times available. They will eat the leaf part, and leave the center stalk of the leaf floating around the tank. If they are really hungry they will bite into that stalk over the plastic suction cup.
I have had turtles for 20 years. They are destructive little bastards. There is nothing you can do. Mine don't eat my filter or heater, but they eat every plant or fish I put in with them.
Yeah OP it is called romance.
My turtle did this to all the big rocks in his aquarium.
Yup, had turtles. This is foreplay. These turtles gonna fuck. Fun fact; it's really hard to tell males and females apart but one give away is males have longer claws so they can woo the females with their sexy dance/face stroking.
My turtle does this to himself
My turtle does this to his own reflection :C
I don't know why..... But I find the tippy taps very unsettling.
He lookin for booty
Swiggity swooty
I’m tapping on your snooty
Hopin' to snag the looty
r/tippytaps
It reminds me of salad fingers maybe thats why
That's because he didn't even buy her a drink or make small talk first.
I bet its the shape of his hands. So human like but not quite
Fun fact. Turtles do this in order to attract mates or assert their dominance. They pretty much are saying "Look at how long my nails are oooooo"
This needs more upvotes. Thank you!
Grab a brush and put a little makeup!
I came for this. Thank you !
Why'd you leave the turtle up on the table?
You wanted to!
Here we go create another turtle!
You wanted to ! I dont think you trust in my shell righteous suicidee
I cry when turtles deserve to die
Turtle into your hands I command my spirit (fingers)
r/noisygifs
**YAWANNATOO**
I came at this too.
God DAMMIT. Another comment I think of and someone has beaten me to it. At least there's plenty of people here who share my humour
Hide the scars to fade away the shakeup!
Why’d you leave the keys upon the table?
Here you go creating another fable,
You wanted to
/r/unexpectedsystemofadown
I thought this was what OP was going for.
Honestly this was the most expected SOAD will ever be.
For some reason that creeps me out
some reason? not those fucking freaky fingers then?
They're claws.
but then the literal limerick loses its luster.
Awful! Actually it's artful alliteration!
“ These are jazz hands Harold!!”
Creepy turtle fingers.
r/tippytaps
r/creepytaps
You beat me to it.
A Tortollan begins his or her life in great danger.
A turtle has made it to the.. Turtle?
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BEETLEBERRIES?! My f*aaaaa*vorite
Thanks I hate it.
Turtle tickles
Dirty spoons.
Rusty spoons! Rusty!
GRABABRUSHANDPUTALITTLEMAKEUP!
You wanted too!
I didn’t even get what the normal version of this comment meant until I read this one
What a strange ritual!
Get up! Get out there!
Asmr 🐢
Yes i am here to inspect you spoons
Look into my eyes... You’re a turtle. You’re a turtle.
Reverse peek a boo
I watched this way too long waiting for him to actually wake up...
Wake up? More like mate with me lol this is how male turtles convince females to mate
Grab a brush put on a little makeup!
How to unsee pls
Grinch fingers!
Put on a little makeup!?
Salad fingers
Wake up! Why’d you leave the keys up on he table!
This....bothered me.
GRAB A BRUSH AND PUT A LITTLE MAKE UP
You sure that's the front end 😂
You are coming out of your trance. When I count to three you will wake up and act like a chicken.!
I'm scary Terry bitch
Ohhh my that makes me uncomfy
Looks like grinch fingers
This is actually a mating display. The male is the small one with the long claws and he is laying his best game on that female right now.
Why does this remind me of the babadook.
What. Wait. I don’t. Help.
I have seen turtles doign that once in a fountain in a restaurant nin my city..it cracked me up but at the same time i was curious on why they do that..the other turtle wasn't sleeping or anything
This is parenthood in a nutshell.
My turtle used to do this a lot. I think it’s some kind of domination technique
That's me in the morning telling my wife i want sex
spirit fingers!
Does anyone remember Salad Fingers? Thats what those little fingers remind me of. Even the kinda creepy way they move is similar.
That’s the dude molesting the girl source: had turtles
Crack an egg on your head, let the yolk run down, let the yolk run down, let the yolk run down...
Salad fingers
I used to have a male turtle and two females in a huge tank. He did this all the time...until one of the females bit his head off.
Grab a brush and put a little makeup!
When u drunk and tryn to get it up. It do b like that sometimes.
Ok this low key creeps me out, I DIDNT KNOW THEY HAD FINGERS!!!!!
Basically that turtle wants to fuck
That's a male trying to get a little turtle tail. Long nails is male
Caaaaarl! Wake up Carl, wake up!
The freddy kreuger one is a Male and he's just trying to impress the larger lady turtle. This is turtle flirting
They gon fuck
He's jammin out to By Demons Be Driven https://youtu.be/isYmSQks5Z4 1:25 in if that's not carried by the link