Liz McAlpine
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Liz McAlpine
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Graduate student at Penn State University researching heat tolerance and thermal adaptation in turtles.

🦎 Herpetologist accidentally studying trees 🌲
Shrews. They are quite agressive and no one expects an angry airborn shrew. They also breed a lot so you’ll have an endless supply.

Convenient and affordable.
February 10, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Under this ice is a sleeping turtle. He will sleep until spring. Then he will wake up and take a long nap in the sun.

Democracies will rise and fall. My turtles just keep doing turtle things.

My turtles are zen and I should be more like them.
February 7, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Yep. I give you Penn State’s non-response.
January 25, 2025 at 2:17 PM
#TikTok has gone dark. I appreciate the subtle message to Trump.
January 19, 2025 at 4:30 AM
I look at turtles every day.

Every. Day.

Yet I am still fascinated that they don’t live IN their shell, they ARE their shell.

How weird is that??
January 15, 2025 at 6:59 PM