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wobblecopterrrr
I’m guessing it dug a den in the yard.
WorstPostEver
techymonkey
This is utter bullshit. A tortoise that size needs to eat a lot, needs UV light, and leaves loads of shit all over the place. There's absolutely no fucking way this happened.
Telis
https://www.thedodo.com/daily-dodo/missing-family-pet-tortoise-lost-for-30-years-found-in-attic-still-alive-and-well
ameriki
A turtle lives around my house. Sometimes I see it at the front. Sometimes at the back. Sometimes there's a trail in the morning dew that may have been it. Sometimes I don't know what could have left THAT trail.
Jumboscircus
Found it alive, right?!
Predicto
Of course it had been dead since 1982 as well
ConfederacyOfDunces
Someone posted the article - it was alive
Predicto
I see that. I was making a joke, but I should have done a better job of it
DaisyWarrior
I think sometimes we forget, animals are always there. Watching. Waiting. Plotting.
downrightmike
#soon
Blackfinity
"Hokey religions and ancient weapons are no match for a good marshmallow blaster at your side, kid."
TooRexyForMyShirt
EdelwoodHikes
And speaking of unexpected resurgences...
film888master9
Lost two Anole Lizards when we were kids. Saw them running around the garden like two year later, they were fat and happy.
Fishkeeper
Yes, gardens are a natural habitat of anoles.
YippeeKayakOB
FizzleBurger
Sounds like something a Ninja Turtle would do (admittedly, one that's not a Teenager anymore)
LogicKitty
There may or may not be a tortoise under my mom's back deck. My nephew "lost" his outside 10+ years ago. It was never seen again, but we're fairly certain it's still back there
LupusLilium
Poor raccoon who goes looking for a nice place to live. 'Yo what the fuck they've got armored guards at this pad!'
morbida
#ANTSAT
FoxPesdassi
You can always tell a Milford man.
ConfessionsofMeandpornfavorites
Hoarders? I mean, how else would there be enough food to survive on the floor of a home.
Natdictit
Dude did have a habbit if collecting stuff and putting it in the room the turtle was found in, but they think it ate termites
downrightmike
Plant people most likely
electronicbovine
A constant influx of spiders? My house has that feature, anyways.
drbwaa
Hibernation, but also yeah, hoarding
scoutMoonDiver
According to Steven Spielberg’s mother, he had a lizard in a cage in his bedroom. The lizard somehow escaped from the cage and was found in Spielberg’s room, still alive, three years later.
MightyIink
It survived on crumbs and the pure hatred of getting revenge someday.
Alitain
At least they didn't find it living in the attic, now mutated into a humanoid teenager who's been secretly studying martial arts...wait nevermind that'd be cool.
bluestemrocks
How long has it been since they cleaned the house?
invisiblemaniac
What the fuck has it been eating.... oh wait. House hasn't been cleaned since 82'..... Good gawd, y'all.
EroticZombiePants
They clearly had other things to do.
ChickenVegetas
ActualTttony
Asking the real questions. Dropping the solid knowledge
ktkboom
Termites
WhatTheFrench
The story is from 2013. 😬🫣 (Link w. Google Translate from Spanish.) https://g1-globo-com.translate.goog/fantastico/quadros/canal-f/noticia/2013/01/familia-encontra-jabuti-sumida-ha-30-anos-dentro-de-caixa-de-som.html?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=wapp
DanBranDaMan
Do you have a different link? That one isn't loading for me
Djohaal
That's portuguese you idiot
Funnyjunker
No one knows the difference.
WhatTheFrench
Well. Thank you for the correction I suppose, I don’t speak either and I set the translator to Spanish and did t notice it detected Portuguese instead. I hope you don’t respond to every human error you encounter with that level of rudeness. Have a great weekend.
ThanosTheGreat
I had a chameleon live in my room for a year. Got him when he was a little baby. Fell asleep with it on my lap. Woke up and he was gone. When we moved house. Cleaning out my room. Found him in my closet. He was huge. Then it occurred to me why I never had and flies or other bugs in my room. Little dude was eating them. I released him into the wild.
Slash0mega
that better have been a wild chameleon you caught then,
Slash0mega
ok, ya it was from your other comments. was filled with a righteous fury for a moment there thinking about florda's python problem and other such invasive species. glad i stopped and considered the possibility that chameleons are local
DgouldMknz
bro where was he pooping
LespritDeLescalier22
As long as you didn’t live anywhere in Minnesota
TheBestSpiderQueen
Irresponsible if you don’t live where that species of chameleon is naturally present
16bitStarbuck
No shit
ThanosTheGreat
They lived in the trees in my backyard. I’d pick them up along the road on the way to school and back home. They are native to where I lived. At anytime I could go into my backyard and pick up 30+ chameleons and have a party if I wanted to.
Gayforbae
CHAMELEON PARTY!!!
TheBestSpiderQueen
Fair play then
MustardyGirl
Is it possible a different chameleon got in?
LespritDeLescalier22
That sounds like it would be a blast
TheMayo16
Tbh, one individual of an animal of this size is whatever, especially if its a male, no chance of ever having offspring
TheBestSpiderQueen
Not no chance, and ever greater chance because it’s a reptile. Parthenogenesis is a thing.
TheMayo16
Yes, but not in all species, and even then parthenogenesis only occurs in females, so if a male is released, it would have to be not only capable of sex reversal, but then also give birth through parthenogenesis. The odds are astronomical. In a quick google search, i couldnt find any example of both things occurring to the same animal
RetrogradeLlama
Wow. Even if this is a few years old, that's a long while. I had one that escaped from his "tank" when I was out. Found him several years later. I thought he was dead but he was actually just hibernating. Took a few days to revive him and he lived for a number of healthy years after that.
StaircaseOfSatan
Dude same. Ours was hiding in the backyard for 6-7 years. Obviously not hibernating the entire time, but it was wild finding them after all that time.
HandoB4Javert
RandAIFlagg
I don't get this or why it was downvoted
HandoB4Javert
The video was shot in 1982...
Ruik
My mom lost her turtle when she was a child. Found it several days later having burrowed through a loaf of bread.
yourmomscheese
They don’t say he was alive however…
SnailsAgainstTungstenSpheres
Friend of mine lost a Russian tortoise in highschool. It just walked past me one day 5 years later while I was watering some plants while high as shit. Didn't know it was his until I told him the story a couple years later. it was also one of the weirdest things I'd seen while high as shit. I was so fucking confused by that.
hetnkik999
My sister and I once had a turtle escape from the back porch. In the city. And then my friend shows up and was like "Hey, I found this turtle walking down the sidewalk." He didn't even know it was our turtle. We gave it to my mom who had a huge backyard and a real pond after that.
flyingmonkeystick
Wait, you didn’t think to ask him to check if it was his?
CapitalNick
"Didn't know it was his until I told him the story a couple years later."
slayston
Note sir, he was high as shit
SnailsAgainstTungstenSpheres
18 year old high hits different. I just saw a fuckin dinosaur in my yard. I don't know man!
SnailsAgainstTungstenSpheres
I never knew he lost it! Him and his family had such an obscene amount of fucking torti(?) I had no idea. Friend is a strong word. More like a strange dude that happened to live near me in the middle of nowhere that I grew up. If it helps he's still weird as shit? Tortoise is probably still doing great. I took it inside and was stoked until it laid a human sized shit. I was over it pretty quick. I was also 18 YO stoned. Hits different
DoYouWantAntsBecauseThatsHowYouGetAnts
So did you keep it or let it Go on its way?
SnailsAgainstTungstenSpheres
Let it cruise on. It was clearly doing fine on its own lol. I also had no idea what it was at the time. I thought I'd somehow missed that we had big ass tortoises where I lived. I wasn't the brightest 18 year old stoner.