Galapagos tortoise celebrates 135th birthday and first Father’s Day at Zoo Miami
MIAMI -- A South Florida zoo's oldest resident celebrated his 135th birthday and his first Father's Day on Sunday.Goliath, a ...
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Lovelorn Tortoise Found a Year After it Escaped in Search of a Mate at 0.00012mph
Ginger was a lonely female tortoise who escaped from her home one year ago to try and find love. Single ...
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Massive tortoise rewilding in Madagascar’s spiny forest strives to save fraught species
TAOLAGNARO, Madagascar – Gabriel Andriamanjaka holds the radiotracking aerial aloft and marches into a spiky forest thicket. Branches whip around ...
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New lifelines for the Mojave desert tortoise, red wolf and Florida panther
What happens when a Mojave desert tortoise tries to cross a busy road with cars and trucks zooming by at ...
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Chuckwalla’s Keystone Species, Desert Tortoise
The Chuckwalla Bench, located in southern California, is the home to a leisurely paced species, the desert tortoise. Native to ...
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‘Gitmo’ in the Mojave: How the Marines are saving endangered tortoises
Reporting from TWENTYNINE PALMS Marine Corps base, Calif. — The two tiny tortoises emerged from their burrows as soon as they ...
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