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Tortoises
Long‑lived land reptiles with domed shells and unhurried lives.
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Residents worried about deaths of gopher tortoises at preserve in The Villages
1+ day, 9+ hour ago (15+ words) Residents are worried about the deaths of gopher tortoises at a preserve in The Villages....
Is an African spurred tortoise easy to take care?
5+ day, 5+ hour ago (792+ words) A mother just wanted to make her daughters happy with a visit to the pet store, only to return home with a lifelong commitment she probably didn’t think through. Brandy Barnard (@livinglifewithhunny) admitted that choosing an African spurred tortoise as…...
Abandoned giant tortoise becomes Sussex charity educational ambassador
1+ week, 13+ hour ago (458+ words) Monday, 13 July 2026 08:00 By Philip Keeler X @V2 Radio A giant tortoise believed to have been abandoned in Bognor Regis has found a new role as an educational ambassador for a Sussex reptile charity. Tip Toe, a Sulcata tortoise, was handed to…...
Adopted tortoise saga in Burnet raises questions
1+ week, 6+ day ago (604+ words) The Leftwich family owned Sam the tortoise for 30 years before he went missing in July and was adopted out to another family. The Hill Country Humane Society and a former tortoise owner remain at odds over the adoption process of…...
Plans for breeding facility to produce up to 300 tortoises a year
2+ week, 9+ hour ago (515+ words) Dale Spridgeon, Local Democracy Reporter The erection of a building for the keeping and breeding of tortoises is to be considered by Anglesey planners. Anglesey County Council has received the quirky proposal as part of a full planning application at…...
Virginia School Fire Reminds Us Why We Should Not Keep Exotic Classroom Pets
2+ week, 3+ day ago (233+ words) by Devan Schowe in Animals in Captivity, Blog, Captive Exotic Animals, Exotic Pets on August 28, 2026 Recently, a news story broke detailing the events of an overnight fire that broke out at Bedford County Middle School in Virginia. Upon entering the…...
A Galápagos tortoise species was down to 14 known survivors when a worldwide search turned up one more male living at the San Diego Zoo, and after he was shipped to the Galápagos in 1977 to breed, the rangers who carried "Diego" back to his island in 2020 left him among roughly 2,300 wild tortoises
2+ week, 2+ day ago (70+ words) The Española giant tortoise came within 15 animals of extinction. The rescue worked; the celebrity credit is more complicated....
Gopher tortoise: A keystone species
2+ week, 5+ day ago (340+ words) Learning about native species like the gopher tortoise reminds us how interconnected our gardens and backyards are with the surrounding natural world. September is the month that most of the world associates with the beginning of fall. However, for those…...
Española Island got its 2,300 giant tortoises back from 15 founders, and the vegetation that grew over the bare rock while they were gone has cost an endangered albatross some of its nesting colonies
2+ week, 5+ day ago (771+ words) An animal the weight of a motorcycle moves through dry scrub at the pace of a slow tide. It stops at a fallen cactus pad and takes it whole, spines and all. Behind it lies a flattened track of crushed…...
‘He’s the family pet’: Tortoise escapes from South Bay family’s home
2+ week, 6+ day ago (532+ words) It took only 15 minutes for the owners of 31-year-old tortoise Sheldon to notice that he had broken through the fence of their residence in the unincorporated Santa Clara County community of Coyote and escaped. But by the time they made…...