Yall should remove some of these animal words and instead add different words for like the 5 different meanings of "spring"
Tortoises are Turtles, but not all Turtles are Tortoises.
This isn't an English thing, this is a taxonomy thing. It should be the same in any language, just with different words used.
Both are translated "tortue" in french However to be fair, it could be specified "Tortue marine" and "Tortue terrestre"
But tortoise sounds like a French word
German: that toad looking thing has a shield on it
Det är samma för sköldpaddor.
But also my Swedish is terrible, so that might be completely wrong.
Dutch as well, schildpad literally translates to shielded toad.
Simple!
Turtle: pretty chill dude cruising the East Australian Current
Tortoise: teaching Pandas Kung-Fu
Damn kids, in my day turtles lived in the sewer eating pizza and doing ninjutsu.
shakes cane
Would be simpler just to call them turtles and landturtles.
How about "dry shelly boys" and "wet shelly boys?"
What about mine turtles?
I always thought turtles mostly live in the water and tortoises mostly lived on land.
The good ol' "All tortoises are turtles but not all turtles are tortoises"
plust tortoises are mostly herbivirous while, turtles are omnivirous, and will eat anything that moves.
The biggest difference is that turtles live in and around water, while tortises are entirely land based.
Not to be confused with the rare tortups, which spends nearly their entire life in flight.
A turtle lives in water, a tortoise lives on land. A turtle's not a tortoise, it's not hard to understand.
in dutch theyre called landschildpad and zeeschildpad (landshelltoad and seashelltoad)
Tuuuurtle turtle-urtle-urtle, turtle urtle urtle urtle. GAH, IT'S NOT A TORTOISE
But they are turtles, like every crow is a bird.
And every jackdaw is a crow!
This is like the hare and rabbit thing... (what are the differences?)
As far as I know, they are totally diferent species, that coincidentally look alike. The European hares closest relative is the roe deer(?)
But Im not a biologist. Probably someone with real knowledge can say something about it
No real biologist, but no. They are 2 different, but closely related species - certainly closer than deer!
Ah ok, do you have some easy sources on that? Otherwise Im affraid I need to deep dive into the wikipedia. "Hey Kids, Papa wont be mentally around for a while :|"
I recommend a targeted dive into Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leporidae
Roughly halfway down, just above taxonomy, is a graphic of the clade. (True) hares are only in the genus Lepus, the rest may be called hares if they are big but that's not taxonomy, just language.
There also is this helpful picture I found on the mammal page:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d2/OrthoMaM_v10b_2019_116genera_circular_tree.svg
Rabbits (well, the European rabbits Oryctolagus) are at the top left in blue, hares would be right beside them, as they are more closely related than the next animal group shown here, Pikas (Ochotona). Rabbit, Hares and Pikas form the group Lagomorphs. Deer are in the green category, left center, and thus distantly related.
Easy! A turtle is flippy flips and a tortoise is clompy clomps.
Thank you random internet fae of wisdom
This title sentence works multiple ways. My cat is unable to speak English, because it has far too many words beyond the word meow.
This is your reminder that taxonomically fish and trees do not exist.
not as much as for plants, the non-scientific names.
English: owl
German: Eule, Uhu, Kauz
French: Hibou, Chouette
One has a flat head the other has a plus sign head like the difference between crocodiles and alligators or ravens and writing desks
Simple. One can be thrown into water and it'll be OK. The other...not so much.
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