Who Says Tortoise Cannot Run..?!

Tortoise is known as animal who can't run quickly. Almost all people said like that. Do you know that not all species tortoise walk so slowly. Have you ever heard about Carretochelys Insculpta, we often call it as 'fly river turtle, pig head or pig snout' (in Indonesia it's called 'kepala babi atau moncong babi')? Yaps, this species is not like the others. They are ablo to run fast when something comes close. I was surprised when saw this video below.

Carretochelys Insculpta is an original animal from Indonesia and they live in Papua Rivers. Almost all of its life is spent in water, of course they aren't like tortoise mostly. 'Fly river turtle' will go to ground when the time to lay eggs comes.

We called they as 'pig head or pig snout' because they have nose resemble pig nose. You can see from the picture above. Today the number of this specieses are less than before, because their life is threatened of smuggling which is done to China and Taiwan as medicine.

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