: Cowabunga: Long before comic books, ancient cultures were depicting turtles as warriors #IndiaNEWS Ask anyone the identity of the world’s most famed turtles, and the answer is likely to be those

Cowabunga: Long before comic books, ancient cultures were depicting turtles as warriors #IndiaNEWS
Ask anyone the identity of the world’s most famed turtles, and the answer is likely to be those legendary heroes in a half-shell, the Teenage Mutant Ninjas. Since first appearing in comic book form in 1984, the pizza-eating, nunchuk-wielding characters have shown the world the tougher side of turtles.Part of the appeal of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is that, as animals, they seem to be playing against type. Turtles in the modern day are usually considered placid animals, an image exemplified by the easygoing surfer-turtle, Crush, in Finding Nemo.To humans, the dawdling turtle is generally perceived as non-threatening. (An important exception here is made for the turtle with an accomplice. The Greek poet Aeschylus is said to have been killed by a tortoise dropped from the sky by an eagle). Indeed, the turtle’s “gentle??? image may partially explain the animal’s enduring popularity with children.Yet, as Aesop may have warned, there is more to the turtle than meets the eye, as a hungry tiger shark recently discovered when its turtle prey fought back with “aggressive, biting lunges???.Rather than being a recent anomaly, the image of the turtle warrior is common to many ancient and modern cultures. Indeed, the first known depiction of a turtle warrior is found in ancient Mesopotamia (modern-day Iraq), in...Read more

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