The sailor slid off the tortoise, and again the two looked at each other.
He added that he will build the tortoise "a beast house" of his own.
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So with the hare already racing away, is there any hope for the tortoise at all?
On the island of Pinta, goats decimated the vegetation, killing off most of the tortoise species there.
The tortoise raised its wormy head and fixed him with an old eye above its nostriled beak.
George Bellows and his friend Edward Hopper have been the hare and the tortoise of American realist art.
Naturally, Sammy the tortoise won't be on Kaepernick's mind on Sunday when he takes on the Baltimore Ravens.
The Marines don't want to hurt the tortoise, so they call us and we go in and move it.
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"The hippo follows the tortoise around and licks his face, " she said.
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In the late 1800s, Charles Darwin argued for the protection of the tortoise, which can grow three feet high and live for two centuries.
In 1982, Manuela the tortoise vanished from her home in Rio.
"Since Owen arrived on the 27 December, the tortoise behaves like a mother to it, " Haller Park tourism manager Pauline Kimoti told the BBC News website.
The tortoise spat is one of about 60 cases presented each year to the ICZN, a little-known group that functions as the world's arbiter for animals' scientific names.
The tortoise, released, lumbered off, over the hot volcanic sand.
When he slows down from football enough to get a house, Mr. Kaepernick, who affectionately calls Sammy "a beast, " says he "definitely" plans to take the tortoise with him.
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Achilles And The Tortoise promises to be a more light-hearted affair, focusing as it does on a talentless artist (played by the director) and his relationship with his doting wife.
Among the favourites for the Golden Lion are Japanese directors Takeshi Kitano, with Achilles and the Tortoise, and Hayao Miyasaki, for the animated feature Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea.
The tortoise's leathery legs-how ancient, the sailor thought.
One such study, conducted by Sarah Werning of the University of California, Berkeley, and her colleagues, is reminiscent of Aesop's fable about the hare and the tortoise with dinosaurs playing the role of the cocky lagomorph and crocodiles that of the slow but steady chelonian.
In 2006, he designated a tortoise specimen at the Smithsonian museum as the new type specimen for the Aldabra tortoise, which he continued to call gigantea.
The unusual relationship between this baby hippo and the ancient tortoise amazed people the world over and has featured in most countries on television and in news papers.
The clash over the Aldabra tortoise ranks as one of the most murky and bitter in the ICZN's 118-year history.
In what fairy tale will the early hare take a nap so the awakened tortoise will be allowed to somehow, miraculously get back into the race?
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