A tortoise is a land-dwelling reptile of the order Testudines.

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Like its aquatic cousins, the turtle and the terrapin, the tortoise is shielded from predators by a shell. The top part of the shell is the carapace, the underside is the plastron, and the two are connected by the bridge. The tortoise has both an endoskeleton and an exoskeleton. Tortoises can vary in size from a few centimetres to two meters. Most land tortoises are herbivorous in the wild.

The giant tortoises of the Galápagos Islands helped Charles Darwin formulate his theory of evolution, since the isolated populations on the different islands, although descended from a common ancestor, had diverged to different forms.

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個人的にはどちらかといえば「ベントラベントラ」でお馴染みの秋山眞人に空目。 http://su.pr/20Rgaq RT @ZERO_tortoise 「坂の上の雲」の 秋山真之 という漢字をぱっと見て、 真田広之 に空目してしまうのは僕だけ？ #utamaru
newmochitaro (newmochitaro) Tue, 15 Dec 2009 10:16:00 -0000
個人的にはどちらかといえば「ベントラベントラ」でお馴染みの秋山眞人に空目。 http://su.pr/20Rgaq RT @ZERO_tortoise 「坂の上の雲」の 秋山真之 という漢字をぱっと見て、 真田広之 に空目してしまうのは僕だけ？ #utamaru
Has just met a real live tortoise called ted. Want.
delwynne (delwynne) Tue, 15 Dec 2009 10:15:27 -0000
Has just met a real live tortoise called ted. Want.
@plmd coup double, en somme ! même si je ne comparerais pas le tortoise à ce monument qu'est lipstick traces... bonnes lectures en tout cas
ojerome (Jerome Orsoni) Tue, 15 Dec 2009 09:39:42 -0000
@plmd coup double, en somme ! même si je ne comparerais pas le tortoise à ce monument qu'est lipstick traces... bonnes lectures en tout cas
@ojerome hier, décidé à enfin acheter et lire Lipstick Traces, je vois "Tortoise - Standards" juste à coté. ni une ni deux, embarqué ;)
plmd (pleaseletmedesign) Tue, 15 Dec 2009 09:30:58 -0000
@ojerome hier, décidé à enfin acheter et lire Lipstick Traces, je vois "Tortoise - Standards" juste à coté. ni une ni deux, embarqué ;)
RT @plmd: Rediscovering Standards, Tortoise's fifth album, by reading the book written about it by @ojerome. http://bit.ly/7gPaJ8
ojerome (Jerome Orsoni) Tue, 15 Dec 2009 09:24:08 -0000
RT @plmd: Rediscovering Standards, Tortoise's fifth album, by reading the book written about it by @ojerome. http://bit.ly/7gPaJ8
Tortoise opened with Gigantes on Friday at #ATP, here it is (in HD!) - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBmftI4SrZA
yeahiknow (Jon Frost) Tue, 15 Dec 2009 09:14:15 -0000
Tortoise opened with Gigantes on Friday at #ATP, here it is (in HD!) - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBmftI4SrZA

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