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  2. African spurred tortoise - Wikipedia

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    The African spurred tortoise (Centrochelys sulcata), also called the sulcata tortoise, is an endangered species of tortoise inhabiting the southern edge of the Sahara Desert, the Sahel, in Africa. It is the largest mainland species of tortoise in Africa, and the third-largest in the world, after the Galapagos tortoise and Aldabra giant tortoise .

  3. Lost tortoise in Texas travels 50 miles, spurs frantic four ...

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    Christy and Sam care for a brood of animals including two Highland bulls, a miniature donkey and horse, four dogs, a Mississippi map turtle and a sulcata tortoise hatchling they have name Little Joe.

  4. 'Gitmo' in the Mojave: How the Marines are saving endangered ...

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    The Marines are hardly the only threat to tortoises. Roads and highways have carved up previously wide-open stretches of desert into parcels that are in some cases too small to allow for the ...

  5. List of reptiles of the Indiana Dunes - Wikipedia

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    Indiana Dunes National Park is a National Park Service unit on the shore of Lake Michigan in Indiana, United States. A BioBlitz took place there on May 15 and 16, 2009. [1] During that time, a list of organisms was compiled which included a preliminary list of the reptiles of the area. [2] Turtles (Testudinate)

  6. Angonoka tortoise - Wikipedia

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    In 1996, 75 tortoises were stolen, which later appeared for sale in the Netherlands. The project was ultimately successful, achieving 224 captive-bred juveniles out of 17 adults in 2004. Project Angonoka developed conservation plans that involved local communities making firebreaks, along with the creation of a park to protect the tortoise and ...

  7. Oklahoma City Zoo announces birth of five rare giant tortoise ...

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    The Zoo has four adult giant tortoises ranging in age from 80-120 years old. Their names are Max, Isa, Miss B, and Ellie. The new babies are also the father Max's first-ever hatchlings.

  8. Habitats of the Indiana Dunes - Wikipedia

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    The dunes had been dotted with lakes. From the west, they start with the Wolf Lake complex in Hammond. In east Lake County are the Miller Woods ponds (nearly a dozen). North, closer to Lake Michigan, in the old Calumet River bed, are the Marquette Lakes in Marquette Park. Passing into Porter County, there is Long Lake at the West Beach facility ...

  9. Northern map turtle - Wikipedia

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    Amphibians and Reptiles of the Great Lakes Region. Michigan: The University of Michigan Press. 400 pp. ISBN 0-472-06628-5. MacCulloch, R.D. (2002). The ROM Field Guide to Amphibians and Reptiles of Ontario. ROM/McClelland & Stewart. 168 pp. A ROM Science Publication. Le Sueur, C.A. (1817). An Account of an American species of Tortoise, not ...