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• Slow and steady still does it...

  
  Have Phaser, Will Travel — Authority: 123
  Today, a hare once again raced a tortoise for a medal and a gold trophy - this time in the intense Penrith heat. Tomorrow, my Kindergarten bloggers will create a jointly constructed retelling of the famous Aesops fable.
  1 week ago

• Yikes! Two TONS of Snakes & Tortoises Seized

  
  Critter News — Authority: 131
  Yes, thats right. TWO TONS. In Cambodia. Luckily, they were alive and released back into the wild. From the AP last week... Cambodian police confiscated two tons of live snakes and tortoises and arrested two men trying to smuggle the slithering cargo up a river from Cambodia to Vietnam, authorities said ...
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• Kiki The Amorous Tortoise: 1863-2009

  
  The Awl — Authority: 783
  Spare a moment’s thought for Kiki, the 146-year-old tortoise who passed on this weekend in Paris after suffering an infection. A star attraction at the Ménagerie du Jardin des Plantes since 1923, Kiki captured the hearts of his French captors because of a very special trait: Turtle liked to bang. According ...
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• Anniversary At Gold Reef City Hotel, Casino and Theme Park

  
  A Peek Into Our Lives — Authority: 134
  My surprise for my Boerewors for our 10 year anniversary was to spend the afternoon and evening at the Gold Reef City Hotel, Casino and Theme Park . All furnishings in the hotel rooms are specially selected to reflect the charm and elegance of the opulent residents of the 1890s Johannesburg Gold Rush. Our ...
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• The Desert Tortoise – Little Known Facts and Conservation Efforts

  
  That Reptile Blog — Authority: 120
  Hello, Frank Indiviglio here.  The Desert Tortoise (Gopherus agassizi), was, in the 1960’s, a pet trade staple.  A lack of information as to its proper care and massive habitat loss has today reduced populations to alarmingly low levels.  The species is now protected, and a great deal of research has gone into ...
  2 weeks ago

• We Love Volunteers

  
  San Diego Zoo Blogs — Authority: 126
  Volunteer Andrea Ortiz washes one of many tortoise totes. As soon as San Diego Zoo staff arrived at the Desert Tortoise Conservation Center (DTCC) in Las Vegas back in March 2009, we started receiving e-mails from people interested in volunteering their time to help the tortoises. We knew that starting a volunteer ...
  2 weeks ago

• Bristol Zoo’s head vet wins international award

  
  World Zoo Today — Authority: 143
  Bristol Zoo Gardens’ head vet has won an international award for her ground breaking research work on tortoises. Sharon Redrobe submitted a paper on the use of ultrasound to scan a tortoises’ heart to detect failure and subsequent treatment, to The British Chelonia Group (BCG) Oliphant Jackson Memorial Fund. It ...
  3 weeks ago

• Reptile Diversity at Desert Tortoise Conservation Center

  
  San Diego Zoo Blogs — Authority: 126
  Long-nosed leopard lizard The Desert Tortoise Conservation Center (DTCC) is located in southwest Las Vegas on a lovely patch of bajada (a broad sloping area of the desert surrounded by mountains). Here in the heart of the Mojave Desert, we are home to many desert tortoises, which are considered a flagship species ...
  3 weeks ago

• purplosion

  
  ihearthalo3screenshots — Authority: 441
  Author: ZombieTortoises Posted in explosive blasts Tagged: ZombieTortoises
  4 weeks ago

• Squirrel monkeys among hundreds of rare animals rescued in Peru

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 728
  Lima, Nov 19 (EFE) The Peruvian Police have rescued hundreds of rare animals, including squirrel monkeys, yellow-foot tortoises, iguanas and diminutive brotogeris parakeet that were being sold illegally in downtown Lima.The sellers kept the animals in cramped cages without food or water.Squirrel monkeys, yellow-foot ...
  4 weeks ago

• Desert tortoise: Mining ban saves 1 million acres of tortoise habitat

  
  Gary Bogue — Authority: 122
  Desert tortoise. Photo by Beth Jackson/USFWS From the Nov. 12, 2009, weekly e-newsletter of the Center for Biological Diversity: … late last month the Bureau of Land Management blocked new mining claims on nearly 1 million acres of southern Nevada land for the next 20 years. The land in question, made up of ...
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