a large marine reptile with a bony or leathery shell and flippers, coming ashore annually on sandy beaches to lay eggs.
Song of Solomon 2:12 The flowers appear on the earth; the time of the singing of birds is come, and the voice of the turtle is heard in our land;
These animals obey the ways of God, but man choses to go his own way, disregarding the word of God.
Jeremiah 8:7 Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times; and the turtle and the crane and the swallow observe the time of their coming; but my people know not the judgment of the LORD.