How To Use Tortoise In A Sentence

It shows a stag hunt, accompanied by more unlikely woodland animals such as a monkey and a tortoise. Times, Sunday Times
Cascades of earls, rubies, sapphires, diamonds and tortoiseshell hatpins, 76 items in all, poured out.
Hey its not the mayfly its the gastrotrich (its an aquatic animal) that lives for only three days ... the longest is the tortoise (177 years) ... pls can anyone tell a SI unit named after a women scientist?????? plzzz? what is the name of the condition in which haemoglobin content gets decreased? en Español Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions
In ‘Amphibians,’ the tortoises arranged around the shell-like form vary in size gradually.
He is the author of well over 100 research publications including journal articles, book chapters, and six books on desert grassland, the cacti of Sonora, the Sonoran desert tortoise, and packrat middens and the paleoecology of the southwestern deserts. Contributor: Tom Van Devender

The seemingly random splotches of bold color mimicked the appearance of tortoiseshell while simultaneously obscuring flaws still evident in the body and glaze of many pieces.
Other characters included two long-suffering frogs called Ernie and Sylve, an heroic tortoise called Lewis Collins and a little white shell called Jim Morrison.
But watch out for the man who might play tortoise to the hare that is Hales. Times, Sunday Times
The other is a fat tortoiseshell with a lot of white called Sophie.
Through the efforts at Collier's Reserve, there are now 200 identified species of birds on site and a growing population of rare gopher tortoises.
The Robin peered in with his sharp little eye, and really admired the Tortoise's ingenious labour very much. Parables From Nature
Della sells her luxuriant hair to buy Jim a chain for his gold watch, while Jim in turn sells his watch to buy a set of tortoise shell combs Della has desired for her hair.
The business value of a message might be long-lived or it may vanish in seconds (tortoises and hares).
Along with other large case pieces, desks-and-bookcases were often covered with herringbone-patterned veneer in exotic woods or tortoiseshell.
Most extraordinary of all is a colossal pair of tortoiseshell and ivory globular vases and covers, probably made as exhibition pieces.
Her eyes were a dark, haunting green, and she wore thick-rimmed tortoiseshell glasses.
The claims of mutations refer to natural phenomena; the triangles are a normal pattern variant in the Bolson tortoise populations and the pads of nopal coyotillo turn a shade of violet during a dry spell. The Zone Of Silence of nothern Mexico - scientific marvel or just fiction?
And now I'm reading John Green's marvelous An Abundance of Katherines, and am pleased to have found another child for whom fables were not all that: "if only he'd known that the story of the tortoise and the hare is about more than a tortoise and a hare, he might have saved himself considerable trouble. Whither Jackie Paper?
Typically cited are triangular shapes on the tortoises 'shells, the occasional purple coloring of nopal coyotillo (Opuntia violacea), and the large size of human individuals in the Zone. The Zone Of Silence of nothern Mexico - scientific marvel or just fiction?
It was dropped by an eagle who was trying to crack open the tortoise's shell in order to eat it.
He bred 120 giant tortoises which amble freely around the island. Times, Sunday Times
The tortoises, marine iguanas and land iguanas on the Galapagos Islands, studied by Charles Darwin, provide some of the most striking examples.
Their only vegetable food is what they obtain from the palm-trees, and they subsist generally on turtle, tortoises, and the flesh of the manatee or cowfish, and other fish, which they spear or take with nets. The Three Lieutenants
Tortoise is an auspicious animal that the magnifico used it for chop in ancient time.
So saying, the Robin flew from the thorn-tree to another part of the grounds, where he could amuse himself without interruption; and the Tortoise began to hustle under the leaves and rubbish again, with a view to taking his nap. Parables From Nature
Wildlife spotted in East SussexButterflies (13) meadow brown; hedge brown; speckled wood; essex skipper; small skipper; large skipper; comma; small tortoiseshell; large white; small white; green-veined white; purple hairstreak; white admiral How to get back to nature when camping
For centuries hawksbills have been hunted for this carapace, the natural source of tortoiseshell, and for eggs highly prized in some societies.
They will be preparing 40 to 50 of the 250 tortoises and terrapins that share their home near Tewkesbury for hibernation.
A classic example of tortoise rather than hare. Times, Sunday Times
Tanjung Benoa, on the southeast coast of Bali, is the centre of a deadly illegal trade in tortoiseshell and meat that is threatening to exterminate one of the world's most ancient species.
Here the Robin trilled out a few of his favourite notes, but the Tortoise soon interrupted him. Parables From Nature
Our Southwest deserts are home to endangered Sonoran pronghorn antelopes, desert tortoises, kangaroo rats, pupfish, springsnails, and other desert species that are adapted to very specialized niches and therefore particularly vulnerable to changes in climate and habitat. Leda Huta: A Marshall Plan for Nature: How to Protect Endangered Species from Climate Change
The tortoise crept along at an agonizingly slow speed.
The tortoise crept along at an agonizingly slow speed.
Another day, another giant tortoise. Times, Sunday Times
Molluscs, barnacles, mussels, oysters, tortoises, hedgehogs, armadillos, porcupines, rhinos all grow their own.
The tortoise crept along at a very slow speed.
Surrounding habitats with gopher tortoise burrows have likewise been lost to development and land use changes.
She is a black tortoiseshell, and is very dark but has small flecks of brown grey and ginger in her coat.
Truthfully, I noticed the broad tortoiseshell glasses surrounding his little brown eyes first.
The gopher tortoise is particularly important because its burrows, sometimes as long as thirty feet, serve as homes for several of the rare species as well as many other more common organisms.
Furthermore, ‘solid colors, tortoiseshells and bicolors have a smoother, softer coat than tabbies‘; and during hot weather, ‘the tail, ear and toe tufts ‘are the only factors that ‘distinguish the cat as a longhair.’
Doni [8] mentions the barbiton, defining it in his index as _Barbitos seu major chelys italice tiorba_, and deriving it from lyre and cithara in common with testudines, tiorbas and all tortoiseshell instruments. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon"
He could easily have cited the Aldabran tortoise, the chuckwalla of Angel de la Guarda, the hippo of Madagascar, the beetles of Madeira, the elephantids of Timor, the iguanas of the Galápagos, the finches of Darwin and Lack, the earwig of Saint Helena, and the dodo. The Song of The Dodo
[4025] Expers terroris Achilles armatus: as a tortoise in his shell, [4026] virtute mea me involvo, or an urchin round, nil moror ictus [4027] a lizard in camomile, I decline their fury and am safe. Anatomy of Melancholy
Interestingly, the word testudo also comes from the Latin word for a protective shelter used for Roman soldiers heads, similar to a tortoise shell, so that could be the answer as well. Maryland Terrapins News -- www.umterps.com
But the tugging tides of conservatism outlast most swells of enthusiasm and a series of setbacks conspired to drive London's orchestras furtively back into their shells, like Galapagos tortoises in a hurricane.
Examples of such dwarfism or gigantism include the giant tortoises of the Seychelles islands, Indonesia's Komodo dragons, and the boas of the Belizean Snake Cayes.
Because of the rich diversity of this region, Nicobari pigeons, wild pigs, monitor lizards, tortoises, and crocodiles thrive there.
So there were many types of guppies, tetra and this queer tortoise with a spout for mouth - really strange looking.
Melrose and Von Behrens honours crowded each other -- here was the thin old silver "shepherdess" cup awarded that Johanna von Behrens who had won a prize with her sheep, while Washington was yet a boy; and here the quaint tortoise-shell snuff-box that a great prince, homeless and unknown, had given the American family that took him in; and the silver buttons from Lafayette's waistcoat that the great Frenchman had presented Colonel Horace Murison of the "Continentals. The Beloved Woman
Desert gopher tortoises also store dilute urine that buffers evaporative loss and allows them to hold blood osmotic concentration constant, at least until bladder contents become isosmotic with blood.
Look out for rescued giant tortoises, turtles, magpie robins and other wildlife. Times, Sunday Times
The Swadini Reptile Park, with about 300 animal species, including a variety of snakes, lizards, leguaan, tortoises, turtles, and frogs, is a popular destination for touring school and research groups. ANC Daily News Briefing
I held my breath as the dust cleared, and was relieved to see the tortoise lying fully retracted but unharmed.
Such tortoises are increasingly rare because they are frequently poached, and they are critically endangered in their native Madagascar. Times, Sunday Times
These included shell, coral, tortoiseshell, lava, jet, ivory, and paste.
The Turtle Conservation Fund has listed the 25 most endangered turtles to highlight the survival crisis facing tortoises and freshwater turtles and to unveil a global plan to prevent further extinctions.
Contempt will pierce the armor of a tortoise," says an oriental proverb; and poor Ragni had no chelonian armor. Essays on Scandinavian Literature
Any suitable material may be used, including quill, parchment, wood, ivory, bone, horn, tortoiseshell, and plastic.
Close in date to the kneehole desk is a small mantel clock on the chimney piece of the Green Drawing Room, veneered with red tortoiseshell.
The strange tortoise's shell is flat underneath and not rounded at the belly as usual, he says.
The rims of my glasses are brown and a tad pointy—an unexaggerated cat-eye shape with tortoiseshell arms that tuck behind my ears. Non-Granny Reading Glasses
The wearing of penile sheaths made from a diversity of substances - linen, gourds, tortoiseshell, leather, silk, oiled paper - has been known in numerous societies from distant antiquity.
As the last two wives were passing, one of them stubbed her toe against the tortoise's shell and instantly let out a cry of pain.
The dogs, indeed, would caper about, and bark round the opposing parties in a way that was at least inspiriting; but my Sandy Tom brandished his tail and took flying leaps upon no principle whatever; and as to Fatima's tortoise, it never budged from the beginning of the conflict to the end. Mrs. Overtheway's Remembrances
As I do not travel at a furious speed I manage to avoid most things, even the wandering loveless oil-beetle and the small rose-beetle and that slow-moving insect tortoise the tumbledung. Afoot in England
It produces in one year two hundred piculs of wax, fifty piculs of tortoise-shell, ten piculs of best camphor, and as much inferior; ten piculs of birds'-nests, at ten dollars the catty; 1st camphor, twenty-five; rattans, one dollar per picul; tortoise-shell, one dollar the catty; wax, twenty the picul. The Expedition to Borneo of H.M.S. Dido For the Suppression of Piracy
The diamond-patterned tortoiseshell panel, offset with faux dentils of ivory and macassar ebony, recalls patterns he also used for wall hangings.
It was a strange coloured little creature, speckled brown like tortoiseshell.
The dress had been delivered to her, along with gloves in cream silk, embroidered kidskin slippers, a silk and tortoiseshell fan, and a tortoiseshell hairgrip in the shape of a butterfly.
Celluloid had some of the same disadvantages of tortoise shell: it had to be shaped by hand; it could be warped in heat, and so on.
I had decided to leave when the tortoiseshell kitten scampered in from the yard.
A suit has been filed by the Center for Biological Diversity to protect 24 endangered species including the Desert tortoise, Coachella Valley fringe-toed lizard, Arroyo toad and Desert pupfish.
We'd stroke her feet and drum our fingers gently on her shell (the tortoise equivalent of a jockey's crop).
Rhizotome, with the soft coat of a field tortoise, alias ycleped a mole, was making himself a velvet purse. Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 4
In the watery foreground a buxom nude with an elaborate headdress is carried away on frilly waves by an aged, bearded merman with a tortoise-shell shield. Masterful Engravers
There are many other snakes of all different sizes, as well as chameleons, geckos, lizards, skinks, iguanas, spiders and huge tortoises.
He was sentenced to a total of two months, suspended for a year, and banned from keeping a pet shop, reptiles or tortoises for ten years.
In the reptiles (tortoises and crocodiles) a later dorsal part is joined to this earlier ventral part of the rudimentary diaphragm, a pair of subvertebral muscles rising from the vertebral column and being added as "columns" to the transverse partition. The Evolution of Man — Volume 2
My mum said she didn't mind tortoises but drew the line at snakes. Times, Sunday Times
Other highlights include the wild giant tortoises. Times, Sunday Times
There were also separate standards for shaded silvers, chinchillas and tortoiseshells.
There is jewelry incorporating hair, enamel, engraving, casting, and die-stamping, as well as objects made from unusual materials such as tortoiseshell, wood, and vulcanite.
Blue skinks, bearded dragons, crocodiles, alien-looking veiled chameleons, reticulated pythons, leopard tortoises, and tiny glistening frogs and toads of every color.
Such tortoises are increasingly rare because they are frequently poached, and they are critically endangered in their native Madagascar. Times, Sunday Times
the giant tortoises galumphed around in their pen
But on the plus side, she is hugely loveable and capable of gelding a tortoise with one hand. Times, Sunday Times
Accommodation along Shell Beach is limited to a single camp run by an Arawak family (with a full complement of pet dogs, parrots, and tortoises).
Abbershaw nodded and stared covertly at the fresh-faced young man with the tow-coloured hair and the foolish, pale-blue eyes behind tortoiseshell-rimmed spectacles, and wondered where he had seen him before.
Aunt Em was working at a new piece of French tapestry, her slight aquilinity emphasised by tortoise-shell spectacles. Over the River
The cat could be a tabby, a tortoiseshell, maybe even a Siamese.
The hare and the tortoise spring to mind. Times, Sunday Times
But on the plus side, she is hugely loveable and capable of gelding a tortoise with one hand. Times, Sunday Times
Expect to see giant tortoises and a variety of birds too. Times, Sunday Times
Much of your time can be spent living with and caring for the animals they are sheltering from red howler monkeys, to owl monkeys, to red brocket deer, to yellow footed tortoises, anteaters, pumas, achunis, macaws and parakeets! Wendy Diamond: Stopping the Amazon Monkey Business!
Thousands of bones and tortoise shells were discovered there which had been inscribed with ancient Chinese characters.
le paon du jour is a peacock butterfly le vulcain is a red admiral la vanesse petite tortue is a tortoiseshell la piéride = pierid Faux amis - French Word-A-Day
These include the angulate tortoise (Chersina angulata); parrot-beaked tortoise (Homopus areolatus); geometric tortoise (Psammobates geometricus, EN); and leopard tortoise (Geochelone pardalis). Biological diversity in the Cape Floristic Region
In spite of near-constant challenges to their survival, tortoises must nonetheless attend to the task of perpetuating the species.
They often had tortoiseshell veneer and ivory and mother-of-pearl inlays.
The tortoise wins the race while the hare is sleeping.
Decree Nisis should come with a guide to growing a pencil moustache for men and a floor length negligee and tortoiseshell cigarette holder for women.
Aldabra supports little besides tortoises, beach flies, opisthobranch mollusks, and polychaete worms. The Song of The Dodo
He bred 120 giant tortoises which amble freely around the island. Times, Sunday Times
Here, youngsters can see baby llamas, goats, tortoises, Vietnamese pot bellied pigs and, if they are lucky, see chicks being born.
The hare and the tortoise spring to mind. Times, Sunday Times
The only flight of a testudinate which we remember is that downward one of the unfortunate tortoise that cracked the bald crown of The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 03, January, 1858
Because two days ago at the Crocodile Bank not far from Mahabalipuram, along with hundreds of fascinating crocs and tortoises and snakes, I saw this sign.
All _vertuous women_, _like tortoises_, carry their house on their heads, and their chappel in their heart, and their danger in their eye, and their souls in their hands, and God in all their actions. Notes and Queries, Number 214, December 3, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
Black Tortoiseshell female cat, grey collar, name barrell, from South Bank, Surbition. Your Local Guardian | Sutton
_Tortoise_, -- Of the _testudinata_ the land tortoises are numerous, but present no remarkable features beyond the beautiful marking of the starred variety [1], which is common, in the north-western province around Putlam and Chilaw, and is distinguished by the bright yellow rays which diversify the deep black of its dorsal shield. Ceylon; an Account of the Island Physical, Historical, and Topographical with Notices of Its Natural History, Antiquities and Productions, Volume 1 (of 2)
As I scooped up the tortoise, it gave an indignant wheeze and swiftly retracted its limbs and head, bringing up the hinged piece of plastron that closes the brown-and-butterscotch patterned “box” of protective shell. Beginner’s Grace
Tortoiseshell, vulcanite, wood, and coral became part of the new jewelry repertory.
Rhizotome, with the soft coat of a field tortoise, alias ycleped Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
For while no spectator can deny their claims to a most solemn and superstitious consideration, no more than my firmest resolutions can decline to behold the spectre-tortoise when emerging from its shadowy recess; yet even the tortoise, dark and melancholy as it is upon the back, still possesses a bright side; its calipee or breast-plate being sometimes of a faint yellowish or golden tinge. The Piazza Tales
There is also an impossible fruit salad of different materials: giltwood combined with boulle combined with ivory-inlaid tortoiseshell.
The relatively large mass and thermal inertia of female desert tortoises usually prevents winter activity but facilitates their relaxed homeostasis.
He has been likened to a tortoise, a hare, an owl, a clownfish and a chameleon, and it all started in a monkey's cage. Real Madrid find 'Nemo' to their liking as Mesut Ozil settles in well
Thus it was that, early in the year, among many other fairly dodgy frames on offer in M&S, I found myself contemplating a big pair of mock tortoiseshell Seventies-influenced shades.
Despite the Jessica accident, tourists still flock to the Galapagos, tempted by a once-in-a-lifetime chance to return the antediluvian stare of a giant tortoise or turn cartwheels with playful sea lions in an underwater ballet.
Losses such as these severely affect populations of long-lived species like saguaros and desert tortoises, Schwalbe said.
You remember the story of the hare and the tortoise? Times, Sunday Times
The name is considered to be derived from the Sanskrit _krishi_, cultivation, or from _kurma_, the tortoise incarnation of Vishnu, whether because it is the totem of the caste or because, as suggested by one writer, the Kurmi supports the population of India as the tortoise supports the earth. The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India - Volume IV of IV Kumhar-Yemkala
You'll witness the same panoramas of life that Darwin once did as you trek through blue-footed booby colonies and watch huge tortoises roam a raw lava landscape.
The Reserve is stocked with small game - blesbok, mountain reebok, duiker, klipspringer and steenbok, as well as the small creatures: mongoose, tortoise and genet.
As a chelonian keeper, Chris has worked with several tortoises, and north American freshwater turtles.
Giant tortoises in captivity can live to 175 years old. Times, Sunday Times
[1] The glyptodon and armadillo are mammalian; the tortoise is a chelonian, a reptile, distinct classes of the animal kingdom; therefore the latter cannot be a representative of the former. Journey to the Interior of the Earth
Mongooses, hedgehogs and tortoises, live happily at the koppies.
They will bring a gopher tortoise and an alligator - said to be auditorium-friendly.
There were gopher tortoises here and above us swallow-tailed kites.
Pocket gophers, gopher tortoises, ants, badgers, prairie dogs, wild pigs, and grizzly bears are just a few of the animals that can alter ecological structure and function.
The "Let's put on a show!" blueprint -- a longtime staple of theater and film -- gets a gospel spin in the tuneful and amusing, if tortoise-paced, musical comedy "Sanctified. Theater review of 'Sanctified' at the Lincoln Theatre
You just pay a lot of money,’ he tells me, polishing his decades-old tortoiseshell spectacles across the table linen. ‘I could put my prices up to any level and the tourists would still come.
Now he'd taken the tortoiseshell sun bins off, his face had lost a lot of its glamour. BLOOD IS DIRT
But scientists have now discovered a sabre-toothed beast that feasted on leaves and stems some 260 million years ago in Brazil - and looked more like a tortoise than a feared predator.
However, frugivorous fish, tortoises, lizards, and even amphibians also disperse seeds. Frugivore
The elephant dwarfed the tortoise.
Although he did not invent the technique of lavishly veneering furniture with marquetry of exotic tortoiseshell, pewter and brass and variously coloured woods which is named after him, he was, without doubt, its greatest exponent.
I kept the turtles together in aquaria and shallow pools around my bedroom, and when my mother drew the line at all that water, I turned to tortoises, species that spent their entire lives on land, walking on columnar legs and laying hard eggs, if I was lucky, in the sand at the corner of the aquarium. Arthur Rosenfeld: Extinction in the Gulf
I like some the choppy rhythm, and the alternating difficult rhymes - endless/tortoise, fractal/awful, commitments/balance.
Like the tortoise thing that the roman soldiers used to do…
The dry washes here partly conceal tortoises the size of refrigerators; iguanas as long as your arm sprawl in the baking sun.
They die within a day; their lifespan is accelerated because time works on them differently, just as time works differently on a Galapagos tortoise and a Rattus rattus. BLANKENSHIP & DAWES IN: CHRONO-CONUNDRUM! • by Jens Rushing
Look out, too, for vervet monkeys, baboons - and giant tortoises.
By and large, stock markets have responded well by rewarding a tortoise called ITC than a hare called Levers. Archive 2007-08-01
It is just a quirk that people would rather take on coloured cats like tortoiseshells.
Each little box and bottle was lidded with silver and tortoiseshell and those same materials were to be found on the numerous combs and brushes.
It is said that sundry Tortoises dwelt once in a certain island abounding in trees and fruiterers and rills, and it fortuned, one day, that a Francolin, passing over the island, was overcome with the fiery heat and fatigue and being in grievous suffering stayed his flight therein. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
Presently, they have a mature adult tortoiseshell female who was spotted astray in Kirkbymoorside for several months before being brought into their care with a nasty skin infection around her head.
They range from the kitschy "La Maison Voyageurs," with a stuffed Bengali tiger, mock-tortoise sofa and giant live palm in the living room to the high-ceiled zen-white Maison Blanche, filled with only white furniture a Barcelona banquette by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, a marble table by Florence Knoll and Plexiglas chairs by Philippe Starck. Coasting High in Provence
The ventral part of shell of a turtle or tortoise.
It's a bit like the tortoise and the hare. Times, Sunday Times
Cascades of earls, rubies, sapphires, diamonds and tortoiseshell hatpins, 76 items in all, poured out.
The tortoise wins the race while the hare is sleeping.
His boar brush was gone from the top, as was a tortoiseshell comb and the silver-framed photo of us he kept on the top. RUNNING FROM THE LAW
She had graying dark brown hair, and against the unspoken rules of rigid, authoritative women everywhere, she wore it not in a bun, but clipped away from her face with handsome tortoiseshell clips.
Originals or copies of Greek statues, objects of gold or silver, ivory or tortoiseshell, intaglios, cameos, and vases of precious stone accumulated in Roman palaces and villas, and statuary adorned their gardens.
The department of manufactures was represented by massive furniture in calamander, ebony, and satinwood, carved with the most elaborate devices, dainty laces made by the nimble fingers of village women, beautiful productions on tortoise shell and gold, heavily embroidered cloths of gold, and a large collection of the various curios for which the East is famous, besides a display of tanned hides and jewelry of exceptional merit. Final Report of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition Commission
There is jewelry incorporating hair, enamel, engraving, casting, and die-stamping, as well as objects made from unusual materials such as tortoiseshell, wood, and vulcanite.
These include two of the six Malagasy endemic baobab species (Adansonia grandidieri and A. suarezensis), two species or subspecies of primate, Perrier's sifaka and golden crowned sifaka, western forest rat, and ploughshare tortoise. Madagascar dry deciduous forests
And so the Tortoise now began To hatch a very subtle plan.
Their chief fish are bonitos, snooks, cavallies, breams, and mullets; and they have abundance of sea-tortoises; and the island has many harbours, creeks, and rivers. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 10 Arranged in systematic order: Forming a complete history of the origin and progress of navigation, discovery, and commerce, by sea and land, from the earliest ages to the present time.
State Environmental Protection Department spokesman Larry Ragonese says neighbors reported what they described as "crying" by the tortoises and were feeding them. SFGate: Top News Stories
As for all the "designer" obsession, let me just report that my cat Dinah chose to wear full-length tortoiseshell to her Top Of The Bookshelf Inaugural Ball. Archive 2009-01-01
A two-headed tortoise has come out of its shell in Dorset to find itself in the media spotlight.
On a tiny coral island called Aldabra, in the Indian Ocean, lives a species of giant tortoise less famous though no less imposing than the Galápagos tortoises. The Song of The Dodo
A classic example of tortoise rather than hare. Times, Sunday Times
His lyre was a fine old one of polished tortoiseshell, with arms of slender horn and a bridge of ivory. The Praise Singer
Before the arrival of early humans ca. 900,000 years ago, Flores was populated by pygmy stegodon (a dwarf elephant species), Komodo dragons, and giant tortoise. First Mariners
It spends most of the year underground, often using the burrows of the threatened gopher tortoise.
The goal is to conserve gopher tortoises by managing a conservation site of relocated tortoises and residents as a single viable population.
Their varied climates, ongoing vulcanism and extreme isolation, has produced one of the highest concentrations of endemic species in the world including unusual animals such as the land and marine iguanas, giant tortoises and the many types of finch that inspired Darwin's theory of evolution following his visit in 1835. Galápagos National Park & Galápagos Marine Resources Reserve, Ecuador
That's the case in the National Wildlife Refuge, where restoring the native longleaf pine and wiregrass community should provide a springboard for the unusual gopher tortoise.
In the office the next morning several bookcases had toppled and some water from the fish tank had slopped into the tortoise pens (don't ask), but things were generally ok.
For example, a tortoise is a herbivore and hibernates but a snake eats meat and needs to be kept warm all year.
Similarly the spots on the nebris of Dionysus, thought of sometimes as stars (+apo tês tôn astrôn poikilias+, Diodorus, I. 11), as well as those of his panthers, and the cloudings of the tortoise-shell of Hermes, are all significant of this light of the sky broken by cloud-shadow. Lectures on Art Delivered before the University of Oxford in Hilary term, 1870
A slip of a girl in studious tortoiseshell specs, she doesn't strike one as an obvious sadist.
For centuries hawksbills have been hunted for their carapace, the natural source of tortoiseshell.
At which point, being five, he launched into a long rambling story about a tortoise. Times, Sunday Times
The tortoise crept along at a very slow speed.
Later netsuke, figures and works of art could have considerable amounts of inlay in mother-of-pearl, amber, coconut, tortoiseshell and stained ivory.
It talks of the land of Azania where ‘there is much ivory and tortoiseshell.’
The herbivorous reptiles and tortoises had thrived until the arrival of man - and the rats that stowed away on his ships - because there had been no large predatory, carnivorous mammals for them to contend with.
Among the animals selected are birds of assorted sizes and habits, tortoises, iguanas, and mammals (especially primates but also peccaries, agoutis, and coatimundis).
Instead of one that looks like a tortoise with its bonnet and wheels poking out from underneath a ridiculously swollen shell? Times, Sunday Times
Cottier inlaid it with tortoiseshell and mother-of-pearl in panels depicting musical instruments and masks on the lid and nine portraits of famous composers around the sides.
In old Mayan paintings musicians are depicted striking a tortoiseshell with a forked stick.
Finally, the derivation of the word testudo itself comes from the Latin word for a protective shelter used for Roman soldiers heads, similar to a tortoise shell. Maryland Terrapins News -- www.umterps.com
Beautiful combs, pure tortoiseshell, with jeweled rims — just the shade to wear in the beautiful vanished hair.
Among the animals selected are birds of assorted sizes and habits, tortoises, iguanas, and mammals (especially primates but also peccaries, agoutis, and coatimundis).
Instead of one that looks like a tortoise with its bonnet and wheels poking out from underneath a ridiculously swollen shell? Times, Sunday Times
A small tortoise, called a terrapin, [198] is taken in some rivers, creeks, and swampy grounds, and is used as an article of food. The Conquest of Canada (Vol. 1 of 2)
One of the curlicues was a black-and-white shorthair male; one was a black shorthair female; the third was a tortoiseshell shorthair female.
Another form of augury was the examination of the marks on the carapax of a tortoise; thus the Martial King in 146 consulted, and found unfavourable, such marks -- this was before attacking the last Ancient China Simplified
Close in date to the kneehole desk is a small mantel clock on the chimneypiece of the Green Drawing Room, veneered with red tortoiseshell and surmounted by a figure of Fame.
As the last two wives were passing, one of them stubbed her toe against the tortoise's shell and instantly let out a cry of pain.
This was two silver tortoises against a brilliant red hare, so to speak. Times, Sunday Times
If you refer to your collection of tortoiseshell guitar picks as plectra, the rest of your rock group are going to make merciless fun of you.

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