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What is a tortoise?

What is a tortoise? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. Any of various land-dwelling reptiles, of family Testudinidae, whose body is enclosed in a shell (carapace plus plastron). The animal can withdraw its head and four legs partially into the shell, providing some protection from predators.
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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.

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