November 6, 2011 African Spurred Tortoise

Third largest tortoise in the world.

Largest mainland tortoise in the world.

Females get up to 20" and males get up to 30".

My son wants a tortoise. My uncle has several. My cousin used to raise them until a virus wiped out the 20 that he had. They are fascinating, in a weird sort of way. I think they make for an odd pet, but that is just my opinion.

I love this image because it highlights so many geometric designs of nature. The face reminds me of an eagle with its beak-like mouth and flat nostrils.

Photograph by Glenn Nagel, My Shot
National Geographic

OK, I'll take your word for it that it's a tortoise.

But that sucka looks to me like a eagle...
.. a BIG eagle... big enough to carry away my 95 lb Lab

Hmmm.


Boil in the bag?

Is that Michaelangelo or Raphael?

I read the title as "spurned".

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Originally Posted by ZenGum Hmmm. Boil in the bag?

If you can't cuddle it, it's not a pet.*

That's not looking very cuddly.

*Also, if it can cuddle you to death, it's not a pet ... no pythons.

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orly.

what do you call that broad class of "uncuddleables" then? Fish? Most birds, Torti?

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Originally Posted by BigV ? orly. what do you call that broad class of "uncuddleables" then? Fish? Most birds, Torti?

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Originally Posted by BigV ? what do you call that broad class of "uncuddleables" then? Fish? Most birds, Torti?

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Originally Posted by BigV ... what do you call that broad class of "uncuddleables" then?

That's why they're uncuddleable.

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Originally Posted by ZenGum That's why they're uncuddleable.

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Originally Posted by BigV BAG? How wastefully redundant of you. This is the *original* cup of soup, family size. Doncha see that bowl on the top there?