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Hood Island giant tortoise

Hood Island giant tortoise
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Española’s tortoise can stretch its long neck up through the lifted front of its saddle-shaped shell. That shape is useful on a dry island where food includes cactus. The island’s restoration program raised descendants of 15 surviving tortoises and put them back on their original island.
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