Turtles can be flipped onto their backs and left helpless overnight.

Evidence

The Tortise in the night comming vp to lay egges as is aforesaid, is watched by vs, who purposelie walking along by the sea side, as soon as we can spie them on land either going vp or comming downe, wee run to take holde of them, who runneth but slowly, and so ouerturne them by the side of the backe shell, and lay them on their backs, and so leauing them, go on to seeke more vntill the morning, and then gather them all togither, for they can not possiblie turne them selues on their bellie againe — Mary Frear Keeler, Sir Francis Drake’s West Indian Voyage,…, 2975

Categorization

• FICTION: The turtling technique — flip and leave until morning — is a mechanically precise scene detail with an inherent comic-logic quality.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Mary Frear Keeler, Sir Francis Drake’s West Indian Voyage,…, 2975