| 1. | Tortoises are terrestrial turtles, especially members of the family Testudidinae.
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| 2. | I ask her if she knows that these tortoises are endangered.
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| 3. | He smiles again and puts the tortoises back inside their sack.
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| 4. | Or if the tortoises of Madagascar are stolen to be sold?
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| 5. | The Bells _ the race's tortoises _ have won.
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| 6. | But what do most of us really know about gopher tortoises?
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| 7. | Only a few hundred ploughshare tortoises still exist in the wild.
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| 8. | The tortoises were sent to Sri Lanka's National Zoo.
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| 9. | Some 735 giant tortoises live in three colonies near the volcano.
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| 10. | Tortoises, being land-based, have rather heavy shells.
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