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Over 100 desert tortoises up for adoption in Arizona
Only town residents can buy membership to the new Queen Creek Recreation and Aquatic Center, leading to controversy. Apache ...
Over 100 desert tortoises up for adoption at Arizona Game and Fish Department
Over 100 desert tortoises at the Arizona Game and Fish Department seek a home where they can happily crawl around and burrow ...
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Adopt a desert tortoise and help Arizona wildlife thrive
The Arizona Game and Fish Department (AZGFD) is seeking homes for over 100 non-releasable desert tortoises. With these tortoises soon waking from brumation, the AZGFD encourages Arizona ...
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Thousands of Giant Tortoises Anchor a Thriving Ecosystem on Aldabra, a Remote Atoll in the Indian Ocean
The animals graze the vegetation into a picturesque turf, fertilize the soil with their dung and disperse seeds over large ...
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Thousands of Giant Tortoises Anchor Thriving Ecosystem on Remote Atoll
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A beloved pet tortoise is reunited with its family weeks after disappearing in a Mississippi tornado
A beloved pet tortoise named Myrtle has been reunited with its family in Mississippi weeks after disappearing during a deadly ...
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Tortoise Reunited With Owners Weeks After Tornado
Myrtle, a pet tortoise, has been reunited with her family in Kokomo, Mississippi, weeks after she disappeared during a ...