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Pages: 344
Authors: Henry Nicholls
Categories: Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2006-04-04 - Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

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Lonesome George is a 5ft long, 200lb tortoise aged between 60 and 200. In 1971 he was discovered on the remote Galapagos island of Pinta, from which tortoises h
The Last Tortoise
Language: en
Pages: 248
Authors: Craig Stanford
Categories: Nature
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-05-15 - Publisher: Harvard University Press

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Tortoises may be the first family of higher animals to become extinct in the coming decades. They are losing the survival race because of what distinguishes the
On the Backs of Tortoises
Language: en
Pages: 384
Authors: Elizabeth Hennessy
Categories: Nature
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-10-29 - Publisher: Yale University Press

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An insightful exploration of the iconic Galápagos tortoises, and how their fate is inextricably linked to our own in a rapidly changing world. Finalist for the
A Sheltered Life
Language: en
Pages: 326
Authors: Paul Chambers
Categories: Nature
Type: BOOK - Published: 2006 - Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

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A Sheltered Life offers a fascinating look at one of the world's strangest and most wondrous animals--whose significance in modern science and culture cannot be
The Sonoran Desert Tortoise
Language: en
Pages: 401
Authors: Thomas R. Van Devender
Categories: Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-04-15 - Publisher: University of Arizona Press

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One of the most recognizable animals of the Southwest, the desert tortoise (Gopherus agassizii) makes its home in both the Sonoran and Mohave Deserts, as well a