Rescuing The Shelled Animals

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Rescuing The Shelled Animals
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Tortoise the slow moving animals catch ones
attention when anywhere they are visible. Turtles
and tortoise are very closely related reptiles.
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• Turtle Turtles are water- dwellers having
  lighter shell on their back and flipper like
  webbed legs to move easily in water.
• 2. Tortoise Tortoise is land- dwellers having
  elephantine hind legs to push their heavy shelled
  body on the land. They are heavier and larger
  than turtles.

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3. Tortoise and turtle rescue These slowing
moving creatures are the most rescued ones too as
there are only less than a million left where
there were more than millions. Hence even if you
are not interested in adding them to your family,
one should know what to do with them if they
encounter one in need of help.
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• Selling turtles of less than 4inches in length
  is illegal in US
• If you find a turtle or tortoise crossing road
  then pick it up and carefully place it on the
  other end of the road where it was heading too or
  else if you place it where it started then it
  will turn around and try to cross the road again.
  
• If you witness any cruelty or sick or injured
  turtle inform your local animal control shelter.

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4. Sulcata Tortoise They are the third largest
kind of tortoise after Galapagos and Aldabra
tortoise. With proper diet and care they can grow
to 150pounds. A healthy sulcate tortoise shell is
smooth and round. Many raised in captivity suffer
from some bone disease or might develop deformed
shell.
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American Tortoise Rescue 30765 Pacific Coast
Hwy Malibu, California, 90265 310-589-5521
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