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As a card-carrying member of the ancient order of Chelonia (Testudines), you might as well be planetary royalty. Depending on who you ask (and how accurate their research may be), your shelled kind, the “tortoise,”  may even predate the venerated dinosaurs! And yet your large shell-less assistant can’t seem to keep herself from “oohing” andContinueContinue reading “Day 197: That Tortoise Tongue”

Malti’s eyes often look black, especially when she is sitting in the sun. It took a long time to realize her eyes are actually brown! But it didn’t take me nearly so long to learn that her eyes work really well. For example, she can see in the ultraviolet light spectrum, just like her parrotContinueContinue reading “Malti Explains Redfoot Tortoises: Eyesight”