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a two-headed young tortoise is held by its owner, noel daniels, in wellington, south africa, wednesday may 28 2003. daniels says that the tortoise does all the things a normal tortoise does and that the rare phenomena occurs during the embryonic stage of tortoise development.
teenage mutant psycho tortoise defends its territory or it's just horny.
this tortoise bullies his mate because he's hogging the stone.
meet alex the aldabra giant tortoise, a resident of the smithsonian's national zoo since 1956.
"in florida, sir david attenborough uses a remotely controlled camera to follow a gopher tortoise into a burrow and see the wealth of life that uses it to take refuge from the elements. wildlife video from sir david attenborough's natural history masterpiece, life in cold blood."
three tortoises, mick, alan and les, decide to go on a picnic. so mick packs the picnic basket with beer and sandwiches. the trouble is the picnic site is ten miles away so it takes them ten days to get there.
when they get there mick unpacks the food and beer. "ok les give me the bottle opener."
"i didn't bring it," says les. "i thought you packed it."
mick gets worried, he turns to alan, "did you bring the bottle opener??"
naturally alan didn't bring it. so they're stuck ten miles from home without a bottle opener. mick and alan beg les to go back for it, but he refuses as he says they will eat all the sandwiches.
after two hours, and after they have sworn on their tortoise lives that they will not eat the sandwiches, he finally agrees. so les sets off down the road at a steady pace.
twenty days pass and he still isn't back and mick and alan are starving, but a promise is a promise.
another five days and he still isn't back, but a promise is a promise. finally they can't take it any longer so they take out a sandwich each, and just as they are about to eat it, les pops up from behind a rock and shouts........
"i knew it!......i'm not fucking going!"
hoan kiem lake, or the lake of the restored sword, is located in the heart of hanoi, just south of the district of the 36 guilds. the lake takes its name from a legend involving the emperor le loi who celebrated his defeat of the chinese by a nautical gala. he appeared at the helm of his ship, holding the magic sword which had given him the victory when a giant tortoise grabbed the sword. since the sword had done its duty--freeing the vietnamese from the chinese, the emperor named the lake after this event.
perched on someone's finger.
i do that same head butt thing when i'm ready to get down myself.
a dehydrated tortoise stumbles across a can of beer, but can he reach it before another man does??
this is the egyptian tortoise and is very endangered.. sooo cute though.
article submitted by master911. a tortoise that smokes and appears to be addicted to nicotine has been discovered in china's northeastern province of jilin. the animal is the pet of a man, identified by his surname yun, who is himself a smoker, xinhua news agency said today, quoting a local newspaper. one day, mr yun teased the tortoise by putting a cigarette butt into its mouth, and to his surprise it started to smoke it, according to the news agency. from then on, he shared his cigarettes with his pet, xinhua said. "it seems to have become addicted," mr yun was quoted as saying. "whenever i smoke in front of it, it will stick its head out of the water and fidget about until i give it the stub." mr yun proved his claim by putting a cigarette in the tortoise's mouth in front the paper's reporter and his neighbours, xinhua quoted the newspaper as saying. to everyone's surprise, the tortoise finished it in less than four minutes, the news agency said. monkeys have been know to smoke in imitation of human beings, the deputy secretary-general of jilin's wildlife conservation society told xinhua. but he said he had never heard of a tortoise lighting up. source
a 176-year-old giant tortoise believed to have been studied by famed english naturalist charles darwin, has died in australia after a short illness.
the extremely elderly tortoise, harriet, was hatched on the galapagos islands in 1830 but lived out her final years at australia zoo in southeast queensland where she was the star attraction.
senior veterinarian john hangar said the 150-kilogram (330-pound) reptile died on thursday night after a short illness.
"she had been sick yesterday with, in effect, heart failure," hangar told abc radio.
"she had a fairly acute heart attack and thankfully passed away quietly overnight."
hangar said harriet, who had made it into the guinness book of world records as the world's oldest living animal, had been credited with helping darwin pioneer his theory of evolution.
"it's thought she may have been taken off there (galapagos) by charles darwin," he said. "she's spent a period of time in britain and found herself at the botanic gardens in brisbane from about 1850 or 1860 onwards and eventually she found her way up to australia zoo."
harriet was originally named harry, as she was mistakenly identified as male, an error which was not rectified for more than a century.
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