The testudo, the tortoise formation, involved raising the scutums into a shell. |
A randy tortoise is on the run after scaling a two-foot wall in search of a new partner after his mate of 38 years died. |
Hot on its heels is a seriously perturbed tortoise racing for the horizon in this Costa Rican forest. |
However, patterns of rainfall and tortoise reproduction are different in the Sonoran Desert. |
There the hippo immediately ran to Mzee, a 130-year-old Aldabran tortoise who resides at the Haller Park sanctuary. |
Our goal was to place G. berlandieri in the greater context of turtle and tortoise life history strategies. |