- The
Black Tortoise is one of the Four
Symbols of the
Chinese constellations. It is
usually depicted as a
tortoise intertwined with a snake. The character...
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between desert tortoises east and west of the
Colorado River, it was
decided that two
species of
desert tortoises exist: Ag****iz's
desert tortoise (Gopherus...
- The
African spurred tortoise (Centrochelys sulcata), also
called the
sulcata tortoise, is an
endangered species of
tortoise inhabiting the
southern edge...
- The
gopher tortoise (Gopherus polyphemus) is a
species of
tortoise in the
family Testudinidae. The
species is
native to the
southeastern United States...
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Retrieved 17
November 2021. Cann, J.; Legler, J.M. (1994). "The Mary
River Tortoise: A New
Genus and
Species of Short-necked
Chelid from Queensland, Australia...
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distinct species of
desert tortoise exist on
either side (east-west) of the
Colorado River: the
Mojave or Ag****iz's
desert tortoise (Gopherus ag****izii); known...
- whom I have seen,
large snakes, a
serpent ten
cubits in length, a
river tortoise of
three cubits in length, and a
partridge larger than a vulture. They...
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Kurma (Sanskrit: कूर्म, lit. 'Turtle' or '
Tortoise'), is the
second avatar of the
Hindu preserver deity, Vishnu.
Originating in
Vedic literature such as...
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which stood on the bank of a
river,
together with the nymph, into the water, and
transformed her into a lazy
tortoise, who had
henceforth to
carry her...
- The
Tortoise and the
Birds is a
fable of
probable folk origin,
early versions of
which are
found in both
India and Greece.
There are also
African variants...
