The tortoise was found by park ranger Jeffeys Malaga and tortoise preservation expert Washington Tapia, members of the Giant Tortoise Restoration Initiative (GTRI).
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In a tortoise and hare situation, America's Deep South would be the tortoise—a barbecue-sauce coated, thick-smoked, oh so very tasty tortoise.
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AND FINALLY ... The tortoise and the cat The tortoise just wants to be friends.
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There are three different frame styles available in four different colors: black, tortoise, slate, and grey tortoise.
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The Fernandina Giant Tortoise is one out of an estimated 14 giant tortoise species native to the Galapagos Islands.
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Until recently, the giant tortoise munched on twigs, leaves and grass, an unhealthy diet for such a large and aging tortoise.
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The tortoise was relocated to Fausto Llerena Tortoise Breeding Center, a national park facility on Santa Cruz Island of the Galápagos.
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Thumbnail image of another pair of tortoises via Flickr user Ben Tavener A 100-year-old Galapagos giant tortoise sex machine named Diego repopulated his species by sowing his tortoise seed and cranking out an estimated 800 tiny tortoise babies, Phys.
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Hot tip: if your tortoise is feeling lonely but you don't want to buy another tortoise, you can make him a best friend.
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Lonesome George, the last known survivor of the tortoise species Chelonoidis abingdoni (or Pinta Island tortoise), died in 2012 in the Galapagos Islands.
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Measuring more than 3 feet long and 550 pounds on average, the Aldabra giant tortoise is behind only the Galapagos tortoise in size.
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The injured tortoise has been fitted with a new set of wheels that allow her to reach her food before than any of her tortoise friends.
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Tortoise and the heirs: Diego, a giant tortoise from the Galápagos, helped save his species by fathering 40 percent of the offspring in a breeding program.
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Led by tortoise scat, the team uncovered a bedding site and found the giant tortoise buried deep under a pile of brush, sheltering itself from the sun.
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A giant tortoise broke out of the zoo and was living life on the run, but it didn't quite move fast enough … because, well, it's a tortoise.
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Based on findings of tortoise scat and track marks on Fernandina Island, there's hope that this specific animal isn't the only Fernandina Giant Tortoise living on the island.
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The Fernandina Giant Tortoise was located through a joint effort by the Galápagos National Park Directorate (GNPD) and the U.S.-based Galápagos Conservancy's Giant Tortoise Restoration Initiative (GTRI).
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The article was accompanied by a photograph of a leopard tortoise climbing on top of a larger, African spurred tortoise, which it seemed to have mistaken for the world. ♦
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Inside the Qesem Cave near Tel Aviv, Dr. Barkai and his colleagues discovered the remains of tortoise shells with burns, as well as tortoise bones with markings left by stone tools.
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Tortoise conservationists would very much like to find a suitable mate to propagate the critically endangered species, and they're hopeful, given the discovery of tortoise scat and track marks on Fernandina Island.
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Tortoise, The Catastrophist (January 22nd) Chicago post-rock veterans Tortoise are releasing their first LP in seven years with The Catastrophist, the long-awaited follow-up to 2009's Beacons of Ancestorship.
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"Our mascot is the tortoise because we believe slow is smooth and smooth is fast," Bezos said at the awards show, showing off a pair of tortoise cuff links under his tuxedo.
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Signs warning drivers of possible tortoise crossings near Las Vegas.
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Does "Turtle The Tortoise" actually own a turtle, for example?
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This species of tortoise was last seen alive in 1906.
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TOMS Maxwell Matte Havana Tortoise Polarized, $198, available at TOMS.
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If the tortoise were a color, it would be beige.
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Let us now turn to the problem of tortoise symbolism.
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A pet tortoise was eaten like a crab in Liskeard.
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I was the tortoise in our neighborhood Tour de France.
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Sallee said the cut was smaller than Tortoise had expected.
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I'm not trying to feel like a tortoise moving slow.
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George the tortoise, known as Lonesome George, died in 2012.
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She nicknamed the shell Bruce's tortoise in her field notebook.
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Unfortunately, things didn't end so well for the wowed tortoise.
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Among those who dined on giant tortoise flesh: Charles Darwin.
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Our Galapagos tortoise elders helped us celebrate our 100th birthday yesterday.
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But a better diet helped the tortoise develop a sharper bite.
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They even had a tortoise petting zoo for the young-ins.
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For the stylish yet understated: Sonix brown tortoise iPhone X case
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"Surfed a tortoise on zee weekend... gnarly duddddeeeee," the poster wrote.
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We've all heard the story of the tortoise and the hare.
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The tortoise is said to be in good health, but underweight.
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Diego, 100, is a rare breed of tortoise called Chelonoidis hoodensis.
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We all know Aesop's fable about the tortoise and the hare.
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Ever wondered what you'd get a tortoise for its 50th birthday?
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She plays the steady tortoise to his more flashy hare. Mrs.
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Gladwell concludes: "Let's create a safe space for the neurotic tortoise."
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Even in the realm of fiction, the tortoise fails to delight.
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Fortunately, taking your site from "tortoise" to "hare" is relatively simple.
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Five months ago, the Stone family's pet tortoise, Roshi, went missing.
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It even has a tortoise petting zoo for the young-ins.
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Tim Shields has spent 40 years living alongside the desert tortoise.
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He refers time and again to the tortoise and the hare.
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The first, is that the tortoise was ambushed as it drank.
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Exhibits explain its conservation efforts and showcase its tortoise-breeding ground.
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You glasses are like a camo version of a tortoise shell.
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Klonick likens the Pinterest story to The Tortoise and The Hare.
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In 20143, the US Fish and Wildlife Service listed the desert tortoise as an endangered species, prompting the Bureau of Land Management to designate hundreds of thousands of acres near Bundy's ranch to protect the tortoise.
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LESS TORTOISE, MORE HARE: The Hill's Julian Hattem reports: The RNC is slamming the State Department's "tortoise-like" review of Hillary Clinton's emails and demanding the release of emails belonging to her aides before the election.
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The tortoise finish is subtle, fashionable, and matches the high-end vibe of the iPhone X. The Sonix brown tortoise case costs $45 and is available through the Sonix website, as well as several third-party retailers.
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"Surfed a tortoise on zee weekend.. gnarly duddddeeeee," the photo's caption reads.
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The company's mascot is a tortoise (leaving unspoken who the hare is).
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Like the Aesop fable, the German tortoise could overtake the Tesla hare.
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Henry, surprisingly agile for a 17-pound tortoise, raced for the exit.
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Just see how persistence paid off for Aesop's slow but steady tortoise.
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A Galapagos tortoise can live to be 80 to 120 years old.
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The research opens the door to learning more about tortoise biology, too.
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I love the Tortoise Supper Club for pre-theater dinner or drinks.
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Before co-founding Tortoise, Shevelenko served as Uber's director of business development.
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That was where Zeus, a very large African spurred tortoise, came in.
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The tortoise is not merely a slow runner but an ugly one.
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For ideas, the researchers looked to nature — and discovered the leopard tortoise.
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An expedition by the Giant Tortoise Restoration Initiative (GTRI) found an adult female Chelonoidis phantasticus, also known as the Fernandina Giant Tortoise, on the island, Ecuador's Ministry of the Environment said in a statement on Wednesday and CNN reported.
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Rob Thummel, portfolio manager at Tortoise Capital, believes energy stocks are thoroughly undervalued.
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The tortoise could've kicked the bunny out, but instead, it did the opposite.
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The deal "makes sense" for Pembina, said Tortoise Advisors portfolio manager Rob Thummel.
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Of course, Tortoise isn't the only one working to develop semi-autonomous scooters.
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The last Pinta Island Galápagos tortoise, Lonesome George, died on June 24, 2012.
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Another impressive mover, albeit more of a tortoise than a hare, is Portugal.
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Once abundant, the desert tortoise is being driven towards extinction by increasing urbanization.
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As the hare wakes, the tortoise is crossing the finish line and wins.
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Give the man a big, friendly tortoise to cherish for decades to come.
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The test tortoise is a Flinstonian throwback to another era of test-taking.
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The test tortoise is old school, and that's why they'll never suspect it.
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Bowman followed along for 20 minutes until the tortoise went into the woods.
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She had on tortoise-shell eyeglasses and wore her hair in a bob.
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A tortoise clatters across a wooden floor in pursuit of a purple ball.
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No, Turtle had been my boyhood nickname because I had a pet tortoise.
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They gave me a very limited range and the speed of a tortoise.
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I thought the statement wall with tortoise printed wallpaper added a nice touch.
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The slowness of the tortoise was proportional to the patience of the photographer.
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All of this is included in the reference design Tortoise provides to operators.
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"I'm much more the tortoise than the hare," Turrell said the other day.
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A tortoise more than 22019 years old, Diego has had little trouble mating.
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Tortoise on top of a YIMI A80 scooter"In the same way Google helps Samsung make its phones work with the latest version of Android, it's in our interest that people build vehicles that are compatible with Tortoise," Shevelenko said.
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A member of Chelonoidis hoodensis, or the giant tortoise species from Española Island in the Galápagos in Ecuador, he was one of 2100 tortoises in a captive breeding program at the Fausto Llerena Tortoise Center on the island of Santa Cruz.
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And all this time we thought Aesop was some dumb punk making up BS. As it turns out, the Ancient Greek storyteller credited with the tale of The Tortoise and The Hare had a pretty decent fan theory about what would happen if a tortoise raced a hare: the tortoise would win, slowly and steadily, while the hare would bounce around like a freaking idiot and get embarrassed.
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With Diego's help, the tortoise population on Espanola is now up to around 2,000.
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Slow and steady This tortoise was detained by Florida police for blocking the road.
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Not even the classic "Tortoise and the Hare" story is safe in this movie.
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Joan Johnson-Freese of the US Naval War College compares China to Aesop's tortoise.
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Day three was solid, with sets from Bill Callahan, Thundercat, Tortoise and Juliana Barwick.
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Before the world came to know Diego, there was George, a chelonoidis abingdoni tortoise.
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She told me I had done a great job advocating for Greenie the Tortoise.
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Once the tortoise was cracked open, the chimps consumed the exposed meat with relish.
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Oil is set to hit a bottom according Rob Thummel of Tortoise Capital Advisors.
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Tortoise: The Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) is considering new protections for gopher tortoises.
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Tortoise Capital Advisors' Robert Thummel believes investors just need to know where to look.
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It was an intimate encounter, a special connection, just the tortoise and me, alone.
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If it's a two-wheeled vehicle, Tortoise requires the addition of robotic training wheels.
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For the initial pilot deployment, Tortoise is retrofitting existing scooters with robotic training wheels.
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Thompson, who is fifty-eight, is almost as much of a tortoise as Turrell.
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There are now three tortoise centers, which are all managed by the Park Directorate.
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"The conclusion was that the island has sufficient conditions to maintain the tortoise population, which will continue to grow normally — even without any new repatriation of juveniles," Washington Tapia, the Galápagos-based director of the Giant Tortoise Restoration Initiative, said in a statement.
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First up is this gentle giant above, a new species of Galapagos tortoise, Chelonoidis donfaustoi.
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China, tortoise-like, is extending its head cautiously beyond its carapace, taking slow, painstaking steps.
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Tortoise estimates the cost of automating a scooter at about $100 more in initial parts.
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And scooters may just be the beginning for the type of service Tortoise envisions spearheading.
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Oh y'know, made a bread version of my tortoise then showed it to him. pic.twitter.
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Lil Bella's options are tortoise frames with gray lenses or matte black with pink lenses.
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Reagan is married, has a stepdaughter, two dog children and a desert tortoise named Casey.
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In 1996, thanks in part to research by Shields, the desert tortoise was declared threatened.
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NEW YORK (Reuters Breakingviews) - Wal-Mart Stores' tortoise-like digital pace may yet pay off.
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The thing that moves around 0.28 miles per hour on dry land is a tortoise.
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Those years when Bakelite, celluloid and laminate subbed in for tortoise shell, crystal and marble.
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A 187-year-old tortoise named Jonathan became the world's oldest-known, living land animal.
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The band will present Tortoise, Bassekou Kouyaté and Ngoni Ba (from Mali) and Steve Gunn.
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He is bald, wears tortoise-shell eyeglasses, and leaves his shirts open at the neck.
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This pair takes the classic tortoise and flecks it with pink for a fresh take.
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Brill blames the tortoise-like pace of government rule-writing on due process run amok.
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Genomic data will also aid her efforts to revive two extinct species of Galápagos tortoise.
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Meanwhile, former Uber executive Dmitry Shevelenko unveiled Tortoise, an autonomous repositioning software for micromobility operators.
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Allied Orthopedics, now in Ozone Park, Queens, has been without a tortoise for five years.
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Christopher said he could see the economy expanding beyond 2018 if the tortoise economy continues.
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We bet you thought the Fernandina Giant Tortoise was extinct and gone, never to return.
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By fathering hundreds, a giant tortoise in the Galápagos Islands reversed the threat of extinction.
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Tortoise experts were divided on what risk that presents for hoodensis on a recent afternoon.
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Highlights include a reversible wrap top and matching skirt, and a top with tortoise buttons.
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I look up at her, helpless, like a tortoise on its back in the desert.
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Seeds for the standoff in Bunkerville, Nevada, were planted after the US Fish and Wildlife Service listed the desert tortoise as an endangered species in 1989, prompting the BLM to designate hundreds of thousands of acres near Bundy's ranch for conservation to protect the tortoise.
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Here's a tortoise racing a hare on the internet, as nature and Tim Berners-Lee intended.
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The deputy eventually turns his camera around, revealing the mid-road walker was a large tortoise.
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Which got us wondering: Just how far could a 213 pound tortoise travel in 40 days?
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"I wouldn't say [Diego's species of tortoise] is in perfect health," Tapia reportedly said to AFP.
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There are no dinosaurs in this Jurassic Park, but there is a leopard tortoise named Louie.
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With a lifespan of roughly one hundred years, the tortoise has plenty of time for grudges.
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They watched him avoid large groups of runners, the Tortoise functioning like it was meant to.
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Highlights include dedicated servants for pets (specifically, a tortoise) and jade jewelry worth millions of dollars.
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No tortoise experience necessary, but you must be an animal person and also good with people.
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Most important, Aesop's annoying morality tale about the tortoise and the hare is a filthy lie.
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Munger used the fable of the tortoise and the hare to demonstrate how unreliable people fare.
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A 187-year-old tortoise named Jonathan became the world's oldest-known living animal on land.
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Meet Henry, a 16-year-old African tortoise living in Morningside Heights in New York City.
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One was a jawbone of an ancient crocodile that he first thought was a tortoise longbone.
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At the sound of each vehicle, the tortoise attempted to hide her head and take refuge.
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That marks a fairly large spread in performance, said Rob Thummel, portfolio manager at Tortoise Capital.
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That's because Tortoise will only reposition the vehicles along routes that the city has pre-approved.
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"That just completely caught investors off guard," said Rob Thummel portfolio manager at Tortoise Capital Advisors.
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Her mother's silk embroideries — of pine branches, and a crane and tortoise — hang on the wall.
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Disclosure: Tortoise Capital owns shares of Enterprise Products Partners, EQT Midstream Partners and Energy Transfer Partners.
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"I like to do things incrementally," he said, noting that Blue Origin's mascot is a tortoise.
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There are human footprints, a tortoise, more bull's-eyes, more goats, squiggly lines and a rainbow.
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I turned down a full ride at graduate school to be a Green Tortoise bus driver.
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This year, Courtney Barnett, The Feelies and Tortoise will join Wilco, plus band members' solo work.
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To me, it's like the tortoise and the hare fairy tale when we were growing up.
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The hare inevitably gets kind of tired and lies down, and the tortoise just keeps going.
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"We lived entirely on tortoise meat, the breastplate roasted … with flesh on it, is very good; and the young tortoises make excellent soup," Darwin wrote in 1839, near the peak of the tortoise plunder in which some 200,000 were killed or carried away from the islands.
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After spotting the tortoise, the family from Okayama city went to the zoo to report their discovery.
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In the chaos, the tortoise looks into Morty's eyes and grumbles out an indecipherable, Satanic-sounding message.
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He's a giant hooded tortoise from Española, one of the Galapagos Islands, and he's got 800 children.
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By then, whalers and pirates destroyed the tortoise population by removing them and hunting them as food.
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Ravens are natural predators of the desert tortoise, and tear into the shells of helpless juvenile tortoises.
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Last December, Alan Rickman lent his legendary voice to a video of a tortoise eating a strawberry.
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That is when he isn't lost in thought, with a vacant look behind his tortoise shell glasses.
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I guess I'm resigned to the fact that I'm a tortoise when it comes to this process.
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In all these instances, the glory of the tortoise was fully dependent on the ingenuity of humans.
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So, like the tortoise and the hare, it's a race between a drone and a cargo ship.
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Did you have to wage any 'hearts and minds' battles with dyed-in-the-wool Tortoise fans?
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This tortoise was rescued Wednesday on a tugboat by Aaron Jayjack during historic flooding in the city.
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Entrance requires a $100 fee, in exchange for an adorable cartoon tortoise and shark-shaped passport stamp.
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So far, Tortoise has partnered with Peachtree Corners, Ga. to demonstrate its software at Atlanta Tech Park.
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Two other aqueous E.T.F.s are the First Trust Water E.T.F. and the Tortoise Global Water E.S.G. Fund.
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As a species we might live as long as a whale, or a tortoise, or even longer.
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You can't afford to be the tortoise today, because the hare isn't taking a nap anytime soon.
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An angled shell helps the tortoise roll back onto its feet no matter which way it falls.
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A deal was made, and Mr. Waters led the tortoise away in a shopping cart, she said.
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A less qualified T. rex named Dr. Farts beat the more qualified cartoon tortoise named Greenie, she said.
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"He's a very sexually active male reproducer," Washington Tapia, a tortoise preservation specialist in the Galapagos, told AFP.
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You can actually get the MW2300s in black, but the grey, blue, and tortoise shell versions look better.
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If you are a Chelonoidis hoodensis tortoise, there's a 40 percent chance that Diego may be your dad.
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In early April, the government group rescued close to 10,000 radiated tortoise from a home in Toliara, Madagascar.
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The designs are mizutama (water drops), sakura (cherry blossoms), kikkou (turtle shell), kumikkou (tortoise shell), and asanoha (hemp).
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For the marathon, he'll wear a larger armband-sized version of the device in addition to the Tortoise.
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The implications go beyond tortoise-kind, raising concerns about the hidden risks of translocation, a popular conservation strategy.
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Pick classic black or shake it up with tortoise frames and a trio of colored metallic lens options.
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The two men mix it up for 20073 hard rounds, Ali's hare versus Frazier's tortoise, hopper versus plodder.
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Turns out Diego isn't the most prolific tortoise, and he most certainty didn't do it alone (amirite, ladies?).
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The next day he returned to the tree to retrieve and consume the remaining parts of the tortoise.
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It means that, if you get the position, you'll be hanging in the park with a cool tortoise.
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The tortoise has few redeeming qualities and is one of the dullest creatures in the entire animal kingdom.
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The Roman military formation called the "testudo" — Latin for "tortoise" — was supposedly inspired by this well-protected animal.
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A few years ago, over 10 percent of the radiated tortoise population was found in one smuggler's bag.
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In September, Ms. Fiume is moving downstairs so that Bentley the giant tortoise can have a bigger pen.
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At least once that meant him reaching his forearm halfway down a tortoise shell to remove its innards.
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Motherboard first spoke to Shields soon after he started working on a project to save the desert tortoise.
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"We're the tortoise to contemporary art's hare," said Johnny Van Haeften, a London-based dealer in old masters.
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"Those 'threats' are now mostly imprisoned and awaiting trial, but the crimes against desert tortoise continue," Bruner said.
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The Gemini Solar Project could reverse the progress made in recent years to repopulate the Mojave desert tortoise.
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The species of tortoise, which is native to the Galapagos island of Fernandina, was last seen in 1906.
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The adjustable tortoise acetate temples are also a nice touch that keeps them feeling secure against my head.
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Take this tortoise named Wamba who's somehow become best buddies with a tiny "hare" in their short time together.
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The Aldabra giant tortoise originates from the Seychelles, and is one of the largest land tortoises in the world.
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He founded Tortoise with David Graham, who has a background in vision systems, robotics, electrical engineering, and 3D printing.
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Tortoise lover and Redditor LordoftheTorts posted photos of new hatchlings sharing a snack of hibiscus flowers on Sept. 12.
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Some scientists think of smallpox and polio as hares in the eradication race and Guinea worm as the tortoise.
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It's not everyday a street smart tortoise walks into your life, so don't let this opportunity pass you by.
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Around mile 15, the functionality of the Tortoise, which had been steadily deteriorating as rainfall picked up, stopped working.
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Like green sea turtles, warm temperatures cause more females than males to hatch for many turtle and tortoise species.
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Of the 38 predation events observed, 34 were successful (a failed attempt was an inability to access tortoise meat).
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After a chimp discovered and captured a tortoise, it repeatedly smashed its plastron, or shell, against a tree trunk.
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This male, after eating about half of the tortoise meat, hid the remainder into the fork of a tree.
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They even got matching tortoise tattoos last week — right when fires erupted that would threaten their 10-acre property.
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The desert tortoise is a small, humble species that ambles across the Mojave and Sonoran deserts in southern California.
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According to Shields, the booming raven population now poses an existential threat to the future of the desert tortoise.
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You hold the key to continued dominance over your flashy rival, as surely as the tortoise overtook the hare.
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Unfortunately, the confident critter awakes to find that while he slept the tortoise crept by and won the race.
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The International Union for Conservation of Nature currently lists the Fernandina Giant Tortoise as critically endangered and possibly extinct.
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I was preserving my energy, engaging in self-care, allowing my "tortoise shell" to protect my vulnerable, precious self.
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"Come on, grandpa" Marion County Sheriff&aposs Deputy Bryan Bowman says on his video of the tortoise takedown Sunday.
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He explains that the tortoise is "literally going 1 mile per hour" in a 30 mph (48 kph) zone.
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He's looking for someone to be his new tortoise friend and take him on long walks in Central Park.
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Focals go for $999 each, and come in tortoise-shell, grey, or black, in a "classic" or round style.
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"In the life of the Tortoise the drone is the first sound," Mr. Young described in a 1964 essay.
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Knits were quilted like puffa jackets and climbed the body to swallow the head like a giant tortoise shell.
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A tortoise cruised the aisle on a cart because it would have taken too long to let it walk.
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They included parts of a giant tortoise shell with circular bite marks and the jaw of an ancient crocodylian.
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And for a giant tortoise with one shell type, the saddleback, big spills are a regular part of life.
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San Francisco startup Tortoise is working on (eventually) applying self-driving tech developed for autos to scooters and bikes.
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Silver hair framed his tortoise shell glasses, and the sleeves of his black shirt were pulled over his hands.
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Because Tortoise will only reposition them without riders present, it will consume very little of the battery, Shevelenko said.
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What we're reading: This Phoenix magazine feature about how the Arizona capital became a hotbed for Galápagos tortoise breeding.
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"Investors are recognizing the Permian infrastructure constraint is real," said Robert Thummel, a managing director at asset management firm Tortoise.
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Chicago, where Tortoise was based, became synonymous with any of-the mostly instrumental bands critics were filing under post-rock.
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Still other animals for sale are critically endangered, including a pair of yellow-crested cockatoos and a Burmese star tortoise.
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" "Diego isn't the biggest one, but he's got a spunky personality," Gibbs says, who describes tortoise mating like "bumper cars.
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Despite losing a front leg in a mongoose attack, a two-year-old Indian star tortoise is faster than ever.
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First, the very setup of a slow-and-steady tortoise versus a fast-and-scattered hare is a false dichotomy.
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All of those options pale in comparison to the purest and safest method to cheat on a test: a tortoise.
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Searchers combing through the charred areas have rescued hundreds of animals -- including dogs, cats, horses, donkeys, ducks, and a tortoise.
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While the label's largely associated with bands like Tortoise, it does seem to have undergone a bit of a shift.
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Actually, it might be more accurate to say that Henry's owner, Amanda, is the one hunting for a tortoise walker.
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But then Abuh, a 35-year-old female Aldabra giant tortoise, came crawling along from Shibukawa Animal Park in Japan.
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On July 21, as Yamana was driving into work, she spotted the tortoise sauntering down the road outside the park.
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Aaron likens the band to a tortoise — they've taken a slow path, inch by inch, despairing thought by despairing thought.
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I wasn't a big fan of Tortoise, because they were a bit too jazzy for me, but I liked Labradford.
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Some good news: The Burmese star tortoise, which was declared functionally extinct in the early 2000s, is making a comeback.
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The Galapagos National Parks service believe the 100-year-old tortoise is the patriarch of around 40% of that population.
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"It's the tortoise and the hare, man," said Shamus Babcock, who volunteers to help Ms. Holder with snacks and drinks.
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"Earnings were significantly weaker than expected," said Rob Thummel, portfolio manager at Tortoise Capital Advisors, referring to Exxon and Chevron.
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Diego, and his offspring, are part of one of the most high-profile efforts to keep Galápagos tortoise populations thriving.
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Meet Diego, the 100-year-old giant tortoise on the Galápagos Islands whose sex drive saved his species from extinction.
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The notion that you're either a "slow and steady" tortoise or a "fast and reckless" hare is a false choice.
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We do remember Martha, the last passenger pigeon, or Cecil the lion and Lonesome George, the last Pinta Island tortoise.
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"I do feel kind of like a turtle or a tortoise," the choreographer Vicky Shick said in a recent interview.
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Mr. Waters told the officer he had traveled to Connecticut with the tortoise to trade him for a musk turtle.
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Enter Shelly, a robot tortoise developed by a South Korean team of roboticists from Naver Labs and Seoul National University.
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It's this kind of giant orange tortoise—a brilliant image for the EU: What do tortoises do when they encounter danger?
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Doug and I had just started playing together, coming up with the idea of Tortoise, but it hadn't really started yet.
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A call about an escaped tortoise in a garden in Sheffield which turned out to be this stone-made fella: 3.
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This tortoise determined to nibble on a sleeping kitty's toes is just what you need for your case of the Mondays.
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The little Russian tortoise had gone home, too, along with the rabbits and the guinea pigs and one of the chinchillas.
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The tortoise herself may be over 100 years old, according to a statement released Wednesday by Ecuador's ministry of the environment.
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But the tortoise's cleverest enemy is the raven: That ingenious, charismatic corvid also quite likes the taste of baby desert tortoise.
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I recently turned 41, a number so large it makes me think of a thick tree or a locally famous tortoise.
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The annual blessing of the animals at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine brought theological questions and a large tortoise.
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" Another character says he's learning a great deal from his pet tortoise, including "how to eat lettuce as if it's caviar.
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The results suggested that a tortoise with a saddleback shell would have to work harder to get back on its feet.
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There are Chinese vases, statuary casts and tortoise shells, along with a distinctive rubber relief sculpture by the artist Alex Hoda.
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Tortoise has developed reference designs that manufacturers, at rental companies' request, can use to build scooters equipped with the necessary sensors.
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It's also working with operators and manufacturers like Wind, CityBee, Go X and Shared to deploy Tortoise in their respective markets.
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" A pet tortoise expires after being painted gold and studded with jewels, and its carapace becomes "its metallic and gemmate tomb.
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The organization also raised concerns over the desert tortoise wellbeing despite relocation, plant restoration, and recolonization efforts proposed by Solar Partners.
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Since then, expeditions have encountered tortoise feces and bite marks on cacti, and there was a possible unconfirmed sighting in 2009.
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The other many negatively-affected species would include the desert tortoise, black bear, desert mule deer, and a variety of snakes.
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Diego the giant tortoise has fathered hundreds of progeny — welcome news for his species, which nearly went extinct in the 1970s.
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H.R. 5597 would upend that agreement and allow Washington County to construct a four-lane highway in the heart of prime tortoise habitat despite it being protected by the Endangered Species Act, the National Environmental Policy Act, the 2009 Omnibus Public Lands bill that permanently designated this area for tortoise habitat and the BLM's Resource Management Plan.
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So I've got a picture of me at home being hugged by this giant tortoise with a big EU logo on it.
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James Mick, Managing Director and Energy Portfolio Manager with asset management firm Tortoise, said "rising geopolitical tensions" were driving up oil prices.
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" As Elon Musk pushed forward with very public fits and starts, Bezos advised his team, "Be the tortoise and not the hare.
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And unlike the race between the tortoise and the hare, they can both triumph — as can, one hopes, Richard Branson and others.
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"Red and gold has a lot of baggage that isn't particularly helpful to this film," she said, peering through tortoise shell specs.
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These native critters are not equipped to fight off or resist the rapid introduction of predators, like rats who devour tortoise eggs.
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Native to Madagascar, the radiated tortoise stands out from other half-shells because of the star pattern that appears across its shell.
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Called the Tortoise, the green plastic device, roughly measuring two inches square and strapped to Wheatcroft's chest, broadcasts and receives ultrasonic vibrations.
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While most of Sonix's cases are clear with overlaid prints, the company recently launched a new line of leather and tortoise cases.
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Sadly, three species of giant tortoise in the Galápagos have already gone extinct with the latest species lost just four years ago.
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The land in Clark County, Nevada, became federally protected in 1989 after the government declared the Mojave Desert tortoise an endangered species.
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As to why tortoise-eating has only been seen in the Rekambo population and not others is another mystery to be solved.
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Arson is very wrong, but naming your tortoise Bits is very right, which means there's no morally "correct" take on this case.
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One reason for interest is recent performance: the Tortoise MLP ETF's 13 percent return, among the best runs in the energy sector.
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That's what the folks at Perth Zoo, Australia did for Cerro the Galapagos Tortoise, who has resided at the zoo since 2006.
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Faux tortoise earrings If your mom's a cool mom (not a regular mom) then snag her a pair of these hip hoops.
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For a brief moment in March, a tortoise captured the hearts and imaginations of hundreds of New Yorkers, most of them unemployed.
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I was among those who applied for the rare opportunity to get paid to walk a 17-pound tortoise around Central Park.
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Tale as old as time, songs as old as rhyme — no, it's not Beauty and the Beast, it's Tortoise and the Hare.
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"Kinder Morgan wins," said Brian Kessens, managing director at Leawood, Kansas-based investment firm Tortoise, which holds shares in Kinder Morgan Inc.
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Increased protection for the ancestral home of the Moapa band of Paiutes and critical habitat for the desert tortoise is sorely needed.
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The video shows Henry the Tortoise decked out in a stylish silver birthday hat, chomping into his cake and having a blast.
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I tested the Tortoise frames, which come with two sets of lenses: bronze mirror and pink Ignitor, both of the ChromaPop variety.
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" As he joked in September, "I guess I'm resigned to the fact that I'm a tortoise when it comes to this process.
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Rick and Morty's clever writing staff is known for hiding secret messages and stories inside the show's jokes—remember the Truth Tortoise?
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In 2014, the agency attempted to impound Bundy's cattle over decades of illegal grazing on habitat set aside for an endangered tortoise.
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Within each, you see representative vegetation and animals that make the regions distinct, including a polar bear, fox, octopus, elephant, and tortoise.
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If people can kill a live deer with a click of their mouse, why can't they protect a tortoise via their iPhone?
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The mother of one completed her look with tortoise shell sunglasses and collected her blonde locks in a effortlessly chic top knot.
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Critic's Pick The Scottish troupe Tortoise in a Nutshell, using puppets and live video, conjures a town full of wonders in miniature.
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The seaside town of "Feral," a production by Tortoise in a Nutshell that opened at 59E59 Theaters on Wednesday, is easily recognizable.
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The scientists were then able to calculate which shell would require a tortoise to expend more energy when rolling off its back.
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The program began in 280, with efforts first dedicated to saving the tortoise population on Pinzón Island, another island in the Galápagos.
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As we crossed the bridge onto Saadiyat Island, I could see the museum looming in the distance like a vast metallic tortoise.
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In addition to Wallace's Giant Bee, the list includes the Pink-Headed Duck, the Fernandina Galápagos Tortoise and the Namdapha Flying Squirrel.
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The last known animal of this subspecies, a giant tortoise nicknamed Lonesome George, died at the Galapagos National Park in Ecuador in 103.
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Although Frecon might be considered the tortoise to Marden's hare, she has slowly and patiently moved into a territory that is recognizably hers.
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A tortoise in San Antonio is being blamed for a fire that spread to a neighboring home, causing an estimated $150,000 in damage.
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Diego the tortoise is over 100 years old, 175 pounds, and thanks to his high sex drive, the father of about 800 children.
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Tortoise is particularly focused on the suburbs, where the need for last-mile mobility solutions to connect people to transit is much greater.
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Janus, the Geneva Museum of Natural History's two-headed Greek tortoise, is photographed on the day of its 20th birthday on Sept. 3.
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I kept listening to Tortoise and only later did I realize how lucky we were to have used that music in the video.
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Without hefty infrastructure investments - about $30 billion a year through 2020, according to Tortoise Capital Advisors - that increased flow could face a bottleneck.
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Yoo, who was going to run with Wheatcroft to observe the Wayband and Tortoise in action, made last-minute adjustments to the devices.
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In a fairy tale race, the hare sprints to the lead, but eventually tires and loses to an extremely slow, but persistent tortoise.
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A Fernandina Giant Tortoise hadn't been seen since a dead male was found in 1906, leading to fears the species had gone extinct.
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Photo: Galápagos National Park/APDescribed as being in "good health" but "underweight," the tortoise was living in a volcanic area with sparse vegetation.
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Galápagos National Park and Galápagos Conservancy took part in the expedition to relocate the tortoise, as did Animal Planet, which funded the search.
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Their unhappiness with her "policymaking by tortoise" had already led to sustained reports over the past week that her premiership is in danger.
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For years, scientists trying to preserve the species made countless attempts to get the solitary tortoise to mate, all of which proved unsuccessful.
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A tortoise (Bits) knocked over its warming lamp (in a fit of rage) and started a fire that spread to a neighboring home.
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The Trump administration has started a deregulatory race like the hare, but it will only win if it starts acting like the tortoise.
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In Wergaia traditions the brothers take the form of animals: Yurree (Castor), the fan-tailed cuckoo, and Wanjel (Pollux), the long-necked tortoise.
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Lonesome George was the only known Pinta Island tortoise left in the world, and lived at a conservation center in the Galapagos Islands.
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"We chose 500 human genes which were known to be related to these hallmarks and looked for their tortoise counterparts," Fernandez tells me.
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The park is home to such revered and threatened species as the giant Galápagos tortoise, the flightless cormorant and the blue-footed booby.
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Meanwhile, Gavin Belson, Richard's bête noire, has been ousted by the Hooli board, which isn't persuaded by his tortoise-and-the-hare metaphor.
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A sighting of the species from an airplane was reported in 2009, but it was never confirmed to be a Fernandina giant tortoise.
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And through negative reinforcement—think of someone flashing a laser pointer in your face—the birds can be taught to avoid tortoise habitat.
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In 2003, it took a survey team nearly 1,000 man-hours and 300 dog-hours to find a single tortoise on protected land.
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The group also partners with nearby monasteries that bless the animals, reinforcing local superstitions that harming a tortoise will result in divine retribution.
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The researchers then compared the tortoise genomes with those of mammals, fish, birds and other reptiles, looking for discrepancies that could affect aging.
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The tortoise center on Santa Cruz was established by the Charles Darwin Research Station in 1965, the Galápagos Conservancy said on its website.
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The company uses Instagram to ferret out new looks, like their retro embrace of tortoise shell frames accented with modern, rose-colored lenses.
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Just how Android is the operating system for a number of mobile phones, Tortoise wants to be the operating system for micromobility vehicles.
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He began collaborating with the producers Jim O'Rourke, who was later a member of Sonic Youth , and John McEntire, of the band Tortoise.
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"One of the things you're seeing is a trend to return cash to shareholders," said Kevin Brown, research analyst with Tortoise Capital Advisors.
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This circular bamboo-and-leaf hut was one of Hawaii's last original tiki bars, with wooden masks and tortoise shells mounted on the walls.
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Lembong likened Indonesia's growth story to the parable of the tortoise and the hare with the country representing the tortoise's slow but steady growth.
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Extrapolating from these figures, a tortoise could conceivably travel 43 miles (69 km), which is pretty close to my back-of-a-napkin estimate.
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But it may be possible to resurrect the Floreana tortoise yet—by studying a long-lost population left by pirates on an extinct volcano.
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As reported by Yahoo via AFP, Diego and six female tortoises reside at a tortoise breeding center on Santa Cruz Island in the Galapagos.
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A tortoise roaming through N.Y.C. isn't a normal sight, so the walker should be prepared to answer a lot of curious questions from bystanders.
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Lonesome George died alone in the Galápagos after scientists searched for a decade to find another Pinta Island tortoise for him to mate with.
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The gopher tortoise is considered a threatened species protected by state law, and painting its shell can have a major effect on its health.
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According to the government of Ecuador, an adult female Chelonoidis phantasticus, more commonly known as the Fernandina Giant Tortoise, was spotted on Sunday, Feb.
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The expedition brought park rangers and biologists across a "three mile stretch of hardened lava flow," where experts believed the tortoise could possibly inhabit.
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Funding is already being pledged for future expeditions to find a mate for the female tortoise that could help conserve the critically endangered species.
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AND FINALLY Slow roll It's easy to take a slow, contemplative stroll through town when you're walking your giant pet tortoise through the streets.
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This weekend, they plan to bring some tortoises to visit fire crews based at the local fairgrounds, according to their tortoise sanctuary Facebook page.
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On a Sunday morning in June 2012, a tortoise named Lonesome George was found dead stretched out in the direction of his watering hole.
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"Thank you, buddy," Amalia McCallister said to Henry, the African spurred tortoise, also known as the Notortoise BIG on his Facebook and Instagram accounts.
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She's the rarest tortoise, if not animal, in the entire world and one of the largest discoveries in the Galapagos in the last century.
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When the Mojave desert tortoise was listed under the ESA, their plight drew national attention and congressional interest in protecting and connecting their habitat.
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And the president recently signed into law a bill that increased protected landscapes within and outside of the desert national parks, including tortoise habitat.
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The team transferred the tortoise by boat to a breeding center on nearby Santa Cruz Island, and will search for possible mates for her.
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Entering the market 13 years after YouTube with a vertical format no one's quite sure what to do with, IGTV must play the tortoise.
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The tortoise persevered and surpassed the hare, its dominance affirmed on July 20, 1969, when Apollo 11 astronauts set foot on the lunar surface.
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What Mr. Mayo brought with him: His dogs, tortoise, medications for a few days, trailer, clothes for a few days, computers, chargers and cellphones.
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"What I've said in the past is $50 is kind of the line of demarcation," said Rob Thummel, portfolio manager at Tortoise Capital Advisors.
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Thummel said Tortoise Capital is still a believer in the Permian, and the firm continues to buy shares of producers focused on the region.
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Tortoise, which recently received approval to deploy its tech in San Jose, is looking to become an operating system of sorts for micromobility vehicles.
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Extinction once seemed unavoidable for the Española giant tortoise, with just over a dozen of them left on the Galapagos island by the 1970s.
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These days, however, the tortoise is at a standstill, and the justices have left for a winter recess and won't return until late February.
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Mr. Sessions secured the execution of Varnall Weeks, who believed he was God and would "reign in heaven as a tortoise" after his death.
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Could it be that Lee is learning far more at what he perceives as his tortoise pace than his peers with their Mensa speeds?
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I had "book" for GEAR because I don't use a backpack, I am of average height and I look like a tortoise with one.
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"Who would steal a 90-pound tortoise?" an anchor on WABC-TV in New York said on its newscast one day after the theft.
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These spikes are called papillae, which are made of keratin, the same class of hardened proteins that make human fingernails, horse hooves, and tortoise shells.
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A caloric increase is helping the oldest known living terrestrial animal in the world — a giant tortoise — reclaim his health and vigor, a veterinarian reports.
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Matt Sallee, portfolio manager at Tortoise Capital, with $14.1 billion in assets under management, is on the other, more bullish side of the oil trade.
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Tortoise can be clattery, or pointedly hard to define; on this record, for the first time since that first single, it has vocalists singing words.
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Recently, PEOPLE Pet Vet Evan Antin was faced with a tortoise who didn't want to eat and kept trying to run away from his owners.
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The Frasier Coast Chronicle reports that Rogers and a friend were on Frasier Island when they spotted the turtle, which they mistook for a tortoise.
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More than 100 years since it was last seen by humans, a species of giant tortoise has been found on the Galápagos island of Fernandina.
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The search for the tortoise on Fernandina, the third largest of the Galápagos islands, was funded by Animal Planet for the series Extinct or Alive.
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"The tortoise was found sheltering from the equatorial sun, buried deep under a pile of brush," according to a statement Animal Planet sent to Gizmodo.
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Image: Nadia BalduccioIn total, 10 different chimps were seen consuming tortoise meat: seven adult males, one adult female, one adolescent male, and one adolescent female.
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AND FINALLY Let's go This iguana must be in no rush to get to where it's going, since it hitched a ride on a tortoise.
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By giving people a new tool to discover and observe the desert tortoise, Shields hopes that his project will enhance other conservation efforts, as well.
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The 26-pound African spurred tortoise was already summering at Ms. Fiume's home in the Poconos, leaving his 8-by-8 foot enclosure sadly empty.
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"The energy sector has been down but it is not out," Rob Thummel, managing director for Tortoise Capital Advisors, told CNBC's "Power Lunch" on Friday.
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Trilobites The giant tortoise lived for more than a century, carrying genes linked to a robust immune system, efficient DNA repair and resistance to cancer.
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Dr. Hansen also found a fragment of a giant tortoise fossil belonging to the part of the shell that would have protected the reptile's neck.
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Since 2559, at least 21 species have blinked out of existence, including the Pinta giant tortoise of the Galápagos Islands and the Guam flying fox.
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THE BREAKDOWN: After Morty accidently downloads all knowledge from the eyes of the Truth Tortoise, Rick offers to wipe the overwhelming memories from his mind.
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And the Burmese star tortoise, driven close to extinction by exotic pet enthusiasts, is making a comeback thanks to a captive breeding program in Myanmar.
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It's filled with creative details of a school unlike any other (classes in speaking to dragons; half-human, half-tortoise teachers who can slow time).
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In addition to the greater sage grouse, that rule helped promote conservation efforts for the lesser prairie chicken, dunes sagebrush lizard and the gopher tortoise.
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The word "roaring" will not come to anyone's lips, but fans of slow and steady (go Tortoise!) will have a chance to make their point.
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However, it is unclear whether the Mojave desert tortoise would be able to acclimate to this new environment under the solar panels and their shade.
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The breeding program helped increase the tortoise population to 2,1003 from 15, Jorge Carrión, the director of the Galápagos National Park, said in a statement.
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Investors in the placement include Cushing Asset Management, Salient Partners and Tortoise Capital Advisers, which have been large investors in pipeline and other infrastructure ventures.
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But when playtime starts to get rough, the tortoise retreats back into her shell, which is intended to encourage children not to abuse robotic helpers.
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Since rabbits are known for their swiftness (think the tortoise and the hare), it makes sense for the lil' bunny to evolve into a speed demon.
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This strategy apparently worked as a "sharp-eyed local bounty hunter" located the tortoise in nearby shrubbery a mere 140 meters (433 feet) from the zoo.
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The gopher tortoise was walking along Nocatee Parkway, north of St. Augustine, when St. Johns County Sheriff's Deputy L. Fontenot spotted it during a routine patrol.
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Tortoise is working with scooter companies to introduce a seemingly radical concept: scooters that can move autonomously across a city and reposition themselves, without a rider.
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Wamba is the resident pet tortoise at The Ritz-Carlton, Dove Mountain in Marana, Arizona, who lives in her own posh pad on the hotel's grounds.
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"This is a threatened species with protections against harassing it, which painting it definitely is," Deborah Burr, gopher tortoise program coordinator at FWC told The Guardian.
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Problems are rare, says Mr Badenhorst, Scatec's senior control officer, before correcting himself: once a bird dropped a tortoise on a solar panel, smashing the glass.
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This tortoise, which is found in Africa, has a shell with a high, steep dome, allowing it to right itself if it rolls onto its back.
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The scientists observed he Rekambo population of chimps from July 2016 to May 2018, but the tortoise-eating behavior was only seen during the dry season.
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And for every Tortoise MLP, there is a loser: Over the past year, three of the 10 worst energy ETFs were MLP investments, according to XTF.
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Anyone who read the play's CliffsNotes can recite that the tortoise reminds us that some things last a long time, even if they don't last forever.
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In celebration of Galante's discovery, the Turtle Conservancy and Global Wildlife Conservation are pledging a $100,000 match to further conservation efforts of the Fernandina Giant Tortoise.
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"The entire energy infrastructure space is significantly undervalued and under-appreciated," said Rob Thummel, senior portfolio manager at Tortoise Capital, one of Inter Pipeline's biggest shareholders.
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The museum is more popular with school kids than tourists, better known for its red-footed tortoise and life-sized stegosaurus sculpture than its arts programming.
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The pair observed tortoise feces on Fernandina Island that could have been left by other individuals of the species, which is known scientifically as Chelonoidis phantasticus.
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In general, the study found, the rounder the shell, the easier it is for the animal to right itself — seemingly an advantage for the domed tortoise.
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I had been lying there on the ground for almost 40 minutes without realizing the passage of time, while the tortoise barely moved a few meters.
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When it comes to representation in film and television, Hollywood has seemingly been taking the kind of steps made by a arthritic, 29-year-old tortoise.
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On an empty sidewalk, Tortoise may employ autonomous technologies while it may rely on humans to remotely control the vehicle on a highly trafficked city block.
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Wind, which operates in countries like Denmark, France, Spain and Germany, sees Tortoise as a natural fit, its EMEA CEO Ed Schmidt said in a statement.
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Dor Levi, head of bikes and scooters at Lyft, Danielle Harris, director of mobility innovation at Elemental Excelerator and Dmitry Shevelenko, founder at Tortoise will discuss.
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With former Uber and Lyft employees at the helm, Tortoise wants to make it easier to find e-scooters that are already out on the street.
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The breeding program is a part of the Giant Tortoise Restoration Initiative, a collaborative effort led by the Galápagos Conservancy and the Galápagos National Park Directorate.
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Her family used it as a getaway from the city; she had spent summers there as a teenager, picking tomatoes and looking after an aging tortoise.
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On an empty sidewalk, Tortoise may employ autonomous technologies, while it may rely on humans to remotely control the vehicle on a highly trafficked city block.
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Rob Thummel, managing director at energy investment firm Tortoise Capital, said America's shale oil boom would limit the long-term impact of US sanctions on Iraq.
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On Friday, the Galápagos National Park announced the end of a tortoise breeding program, which was deemed a success thanks in large part to Diego's contributions.
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Earlier this year, a species of giant tortoise believed to have been extinct for more than 100 years was discovered on the Galapagos island of Fernandina.
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These posters reappear in "White Front" (2016), surrounding the front door of a white house, while animals — including an owl, tortoise, and snakes — pose all around.
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Behind the shelter are stables for dozens of horses that were evacuated, and next door is another room full of dogs, cats and at least one tortoise.
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The zookeepers had been allowing the 121-pound tortoise to walk freely through the park during opening hours, a policy shift that Abuh seems to have exploited.
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Curled up around him, she was sniffing Elmo a little enthusiastically, when he decided it was time to move onto the next animal... Like the giant tortoise!
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The last pure Floreana tortoise died out some time not long after Darwin visited in 1835, another tale of runaway human consumption dooming a species to extinction.
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"Removing a layer of complexity makes [partnerships] a lot more investible," said James Mick, a portfolio manager for Tortoise, which invests in energy master limited partnerships (MLPs).
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Remote-operated might be a better description, because Tortoise wants to use autonomous technology combined with teleoperation to reposition and rebalance dockless, shared e-scooters in cities.
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Dowden fell for what's known as a puppy scam, a widespread internet scheme that preys on people looking for a dog, cat, horse, bird, or even tortoise.
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It's an updated take on the brand's traditional mule, inspired by Danish mid-century modern furniture and featuring curved leather detailing and a unique tortoise Plexiglas heel.
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That classic tortoise-versus-hare strategy, along with some crude weapons, is basically how we caught lunch until humans started riding horses at least 273,2160 year ago.
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Couple Marla Sherman and John Kounious are waiting out the blaze at Twin Pine Casino in Middletown with their tortoise and dog, according to CNN affiliate KPIX.
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Hers were round, tortoise shell frames, and her hairstyle hugged the sides of her face in such a way that the sides of the glasses weren't visible.
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"It wasn't that long ago you wouldn't have heard the word 'Permian' in anything from Chevron," said Rob Thummel, portfolio manager at energy investment firm Tortoise Capital.
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How is it going to save your children from jumping off a balcony if it could barely cross a room in time to stop an escaping tortoise.
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Seven members of an international tortoise smuggling ring are going to jail after Chinese police caught one member in an airport with two sacks holding 316 tortoises.
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For the more formal among us, leggings can be worn under button-down shirtdresses or chunky cable knits paired with tortoise shell frames and a slick ponytail.
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NEW YORK (Reuters Breakingviews) - Two of America's fabled technology giants have traded places, with Tim Cook's Apple playing tortoise to the hare that is Satya Nadella's Microsoft.
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A member of a tortoise species not seen in over 100 years and long thought to be extinct was just found on the Galapagos island of Fernandina.
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White voile drapes hang from the full-length windows, and there are green plants perched on high wooden tables; a ceramic tortoise peeks out from under one.
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Among his early heroes were the members of the post-rock band Tortoise, and more low-profile indie polymaths like LeRoy Bach, a former member of Wilco.
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The Fernandina giant tortoise, which has not been seen alive since 1906, has been spotted on its namesake island in the Galápagos, says the government of Ecuador.
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The Fernandina tortoise, native to the Galápagos Islands, is considered critically endangered by the International Union for Conservation of Nature, and some feared it might be extinct.
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However, until then, we must be kind to our mechanical brethren and this robotic tortoise will help our kids learn that robot abuse is a bad idea.
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A study that summarizes the findings, just published in the Quaternary Science Reviews, says that the researchers found tortoise specimens throughout the cave and at different levels.
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"Manufacturing is moving forward but we have the tortoise, not the hare in this race," said Joel Naroff, chief economist at Naroff Economic Advisors in Holland, Pennsylvania.
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Each tent will feature an apparition of an extinct animal, such as Steller's Sea Cow and the Pinta Island Tortoise, as a projection on a mist screen.
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The second, is that the tortoise died near the pond from starvation or heat stroke in the arid environment and a nearby crocodile scavenged its rotting carapace.
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On a visit here last summer, we watched a tortoise slowly lumber from view into the darkness of the surrounding bushes at the back of the temple.
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This allows the saddleback to extend its longer neck farther, which biologists long assumed was a trait that helped the tortoise reach food in a drier climate.
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In its best moments, "Maps for a War Tourist" crashes against its own limits, in ways a lot less gentle than a tortoise bumping against the glass.
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One such slowpoke route is the M42, along 143nd Street, which cuts across Times Square, where the traffic continues to move along at a tortoise-like pace.
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