The logic was that the eagle thought his head was a stone, wanting to kill the live tortoise by dropping it.

人们的推理是老鹰以为他的头是块石头，想把活乌龟空投到上面摔死。

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The tortoise - who is barely the size of its mum's foot - can expect to live to 150 years.

这只身材仅有妈妈的一个脚掌大的小龟，寿命约为150年。

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So, ministers, do you think the tortoise would rather to live in the slush, pulling its tail; than to enjoy the afterlife honor?

两位认为这乌龟愿意享有死后的尊荣还是宁肯拖着尾巴在烂泥里活着？

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Instead, Mr. Henen often hustles out to remote parts of the Mojave Desert to make sure the threatened desert tortoise, which can weigh 10 pounds and live to be more than 50 years old, isn't frightened by charging troops.

WSJ: An Army of Biologists Are on Nature Patrol at Military Bases

In the late 1800s, Charles Darwin argued for the protection of the tortoise, which can grow three feet high and live for two centuries.

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