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Turtles High-Five Under Water (VIDEO)

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First Posted: 01/04/12 06:19 PM ET Updated: 01/04/12 09:08 PM ET

One of these turtles must have done something awesome, since nothing else could have warranted such an enthusiastic high-five. Or maybe they're just congratulating themselves for helping Marlin find Nemo.

Whatever the case, around 12 seconds into this YouTube video there's something that looks strikingly similar to the human motion commonly seen following successful keg stands.

These turtles aren't the only animals to recently display human-like actions.

Recently, Kanzi the fun-loving male bonobo has learned how to cook his own food.

There's also Bailey, the buffalo who cruises around his Canada town in a car and likes to hit the dance floor.

Back in August, an orangutan at Japan's Tama Zoo got his 15 minutes of fame when a visitor recorded him dipping a towel into a pool, wringing it out, and dabbing his face and upper body to cool off.

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One of these turtles must have done something awesome, since nothing else could have warranted such an enthusiastic high-five. Or maybe they're just congratulating themselves for helping Marlin find N...
One of these turtles must have done something awesome, since nothing else could have warranted such an enthusiastic high-five. Or maybe they're just congratulating themselves for helping Marlin find N...
 
 
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10:09 AM on 01/07/2012
The buffalo cruises around his CANADIAN town, not Canada town - we're not an attraction at Epcot. The turtles are cute though.
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mozartmaid2
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02:55 PM on 01/07/2012
Forgive the ignorant Americans... and sadly, those that write for HuffPo as well. Some of us apparently don't get out much, lol.
10:36 PM on 01/06/2012
I don't know why people are so surprised. Animals don't have control of language the way we do, and they don't have digits like us, at least not opposable thumbs, but beyond that, they're not that different from us.
12:40 PM on 01/06/2012
Looks more like a warning slap than a high five to me. Then again, I took my niece to an aquarium, and one of the turtles would was following her around the pool, and whenever she put her hand up to the glass, it would put its flipper up against it.
11:24 AM on 01/06/2012
That's funny my profile pic is of a turtle in a zoo high fiving a kid through the glass
10:35 PM on 01/06/2012
You stalking "sf bee"'s (above) niece? :D
12:43 AM on 01/07/2012
lol no, didn't even catch it until we got home.
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Despyria
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11:17 AM on 01/06/2012
Gives me new appreciation for Finding Nemo
08:05 PM on 01/05/2012
I've had many turtles and tortoises as pets for decades, and I've watched a lot of behavior. I don't see this interaction as friendly at all.
These are two females.
When I got a new female, there was aggressive behavior between her and another female I'd had for a long time. There was throaty vocalization that sounded like repeated "chuff" and what I can best describe as punching.
Watch the video again. The two size each other up. The turtle on the left moves aggressively toward the other while her throat expands just like the "chuffing" I've seen, and then she swats the other turtle who raises her flipper in defense to deflect it. Then they double back and size each other up again.
07:34 PM on 01/05/2012
"Whoa dude! Righteous!"
gibraltar
Put in D to go forward to go backwards put it in R
02:27 PM on 01/05/2012
This is true I saw Mitch McConnell do it on C span.
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mozartmaid2
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02:56 PM on 01/07/2012
McConnell is a disgrace to turtles everywhere...
01:07 PM on 01/05/2012
Great marine mammal video on you tube. THE ADVENTURES OF DUC. Talking sea lion.
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Samwise1948
12:51 PM on 01/05/2012
Looks more like a warning slap to me. "Get away from here, this is my waterhood."
12:21 PM on 01/05/2012
It's Crush!!! Glad to see you made it back from the EAC, Dude!
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stape45
It IS what it IS!
10:48 AM on 01/05/2012
Why aren't THESE turtles in the Politics section? Is this discrimination??
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acarioti
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10:30 AM on 01/05/2012
They just completed their 2 million-year plan to take over humanity. Finally!
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nicko68
09:29 AM on 01/05/2012
Turtles from the Ghetto
09:03 AM on 01/05/2012
It's Puddy from Seinfeld!