YIKES ! Anyone ever see this?

[yagyujubei]

Ordinarily, I would just dismiss this, but it is Ripley's

 

[Maggie Cummings]

Sure looks like he used to be a Sulcata doesn't it?

 

[Torty Mom]

Not too sure about that!

 

[dmarcus]

I was thinking Sulcata also when I saw it..

 

[ascott]

I love its smooth shell....smmmmooooooth. I cant look at the third eye...kinda weirds me out...if it is genuine i wonder if all three eyes worked equally well? humm, guess will never know

 

[Watermelon]

I didnt realise you can stuff tortoises.

 

[Paganthegoat]

You know it does not look genuine , i say that because it looks like its sort of stuck on , however on a serious note im sure you all know if the incubation temp goes over a certain temp you get deformaties.

Im still sure its not right, eyes in the wrong place, well i know it is but it should have ocoured elsewhere , what do i know lol , rather like the bit of this and bit of that they used to have in traveling freak shows , preserved in jars of formaldehyde .

 

[Watermelon]

Either it was born with it or its stuck on, I think its stuck on.

 

[SnakeyeZ]

Weird!!!

 

[Yvonne G]

I know that Ripley's is supposed to be ok, but I'm sorry. That tortoise is not real. Just look at where the skin starts on the upper leg. No tortoise's leg looks like that.

I appreciate seeing the picture, though. Thanks for that!!

 

[shelber10]

Yea and why would the eye be on top of the head in a nice looking shape? i would imagine it being on the side of the face or somewhere in that general area.

 

[yagyujubei]

I know that Ripley's is supposed to be ok, but I'm sorry. That tortoise is not real. Just look at where the skin starts on the upper leg. No tortoise's leg looks like that.

I appreciate seeing the picture, though. Thanks for that!!

Do you think that it isn't a real sulcata? If so, I disagree. The legs are stretched out (as is the neck) much farther than they could be in life. As far as the lump on the head, it could be a tumor of some sort. I don't think that this is just a sideshow gaff, though.

 

[Cameron]

probably a real tortoise, definitely a fake third eye!

 

[dmmj]

All I can say is my third eye is in a weird spot.

 

[Terry Allan Hall]

Is that the one at the Ripley's in Arlington, Tx?

 

[EricIvins]

I think everyone is missing the fact that this animal wasn't preserved in the hayday of Taxidermy........What looked real back then looks cartoonish now.........You can't compare or say anything because the animal will not be anatomically correct unless it was done within the past 10-15-20 years, which it was not.........obviously......

 

[Terry Allan Hall]

I think everyone is missing the fact that this animal wasn't preserved in the hayday of Taxidermy........What looked real back then looks cartoonish now.........You can't compare or say anything because the animal will not be anatomically correct unless it was done within the past 10-15-20 years, which it was not.........obviously......

Sometimes a picture's worth 1000 words... ​

 

[dmmj]

I saw a squirrel like that once.

 

[Terry Allan Hall]

I saw a squirrel like that once.

Pre- or post-sugar cube...

Seriously (for just a minute, anyway ), EricIvins is absolutely correct...a lot of old-school taxidermy, particularily as pertains to reptiles, is rarely lifelike...and sometimes is absolutely hideous.