A Bale of Turtles

Cartoon animals struggling to hold a heavy Placeholder Image sign while a bird prepares to land on top.

“Bale” is the most widely recognized collective noun for turtles, and its likely root traces back to the Old French balle, meaning bundle or heap. It’s an apt description for the way turtles often look when several share a basking log or a sunny patch of shallow water, stacked or pressed together in a way … Read more