Thanks for playing and the feedback regarding playtime - it's always useful for me to collect data on that. The tortoise says it only protects against animal attacks; my reasoning is that the tortoise can jump in front of the monkey (or the monkey can hold it up as a shield), but the monkey can't hold it upside down or walk on it in the flower fields. :)
The rabbit appearing on the flowers is not an unintentional bug - I don't do a check for it (mainly because the rabbit will walk on the flowers anyway if the monkey does). But yeah, that was inconsistent with the rabbit getting hurt - I was going to make the rabbit say it will be more careful from now on when stepping on the flowers but decided it was ok as it is. Given your observation, I'll probably include that message after the game jam is over. Thanks again!