6 ms·
Fire-damaged Brazilian tortoise receives new 3D shell
- aaronsnoswell 10y agoWould have been cooler if he received a new 2D shell in my opinion.
- oolongCat 10y agoAww they missed an opportunity to print a red shell, or a blue one. Wonder how an animal like a tortoise living with others would react to if it had a different colour shell.
- shmerl 10y agoI don't think their point was to experiment with reactions on unusual shells.
- mixmastamyk 10y agoThey painted it.
- ljw1001 10y agoMore importantly, they missed an important advertising opportunity. They should have sold placement to, idk, nascar maybe.
- Puts 10y agoI actually think the right thing would have been to shoot the tortoise right where they found it. These kinds of things are more done for the selfish joy of experimentation then for the actual benefit of the animal.
- memonkey 10y agoDo you feel the same way toward humans?
- Puts 10y agoIt's been actually discussed previously here on HN that it's more common for doctors and medical personnel to wear "No code" batches or tattoos. http://www.theguardian.com/society/2012/feb/08/how-doctors-choose-die http://www.theguardian.com/society/2012/feb/08/how-doctors-c...
- rabboRubble 10y agoIt's Australia mate. They don't have much in the way of gun ownership. Once a group of children were massacred there, see the 1996 Port Author massacre for reference, they collectively decided that gun control was needed. I doubt it would even occur to most Australians to kill anything with a firearm. Your reaction freaks me out actually.
- aftbit 10y agoWould you have felt more comfortable if he had just said "euthanize?" I've never really understood the aversion to particular methods of killing felt by some people. Dead is dead. As long as something doesn't cause undue suffering, does it really make a difference if you shoot, stab, or gas the tortoise?
- rabboRubble 10y agoYou tell me how you would like to die, a lethal dose of morphine delivered by a medical professional or being shot/stabbed by a wannabe gunslinger? Furthermore, getting shot is not a guarantee of death. The poor turtle could have been badly burned AND shot and still not dead. So yes, still freaked out by that comment.
- jayeshsalvi 10y agoHere's is cooler one. 3d printed prosthetic leg for a turtle https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkHHuVAaORE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkHHuVAaORE
- JetSpiegel 10y agoI was expecting a z shell...
- delinka 10y agoDo natural shells grow continuously? I'm not remembering whether that's the case. I'm curious to know how this affects the tortoise's ability to continue proper shell function. Unless, of course, the poor thing was damaged to the point that new shell growth will not be impossible.