| In spite of near-constant challenges to their survival, tortoises must nonetheless attend to the task of perpetuating the species. |
| In the southeastern US, organized rattlesnake hunts destroy gopher tortoise burrows and lead to the deaths of tortoises. |
| Diving ducks and even swimming tortoises can be mistaken for platypus momentarily, but are usually readily distinguished upon longer observation. |
| The goal is to conserve gopher tortoises by managing a conservation site of relocated tortoises and residents as a single viable population. |
| Darwin also learned that locals could tell from which islands giant tortoises had come by the shapes of the reptiles' shells. |
| Molluscs, barnacles, mussels, oysters, tortoises, hedgehogs, armadillos, porcupines, rhinos all grow their own. |
