November 6, 2011 African Spurred Tortoise
 

http://cellar.org/2011/african-spurr...67_990x742.jpg

Third largest tortoise in the world.

Largest mainland tortoise in the world.

Females get up to 20" and males get up to 30".

My son wants a tortoise. My uncle has several. My cousin used to raise them until a virus wiped out the 20 that he had. They are fascinating, in a weird sort of way. I think they make for an odd pet, but that is just my opinion.

I love this image because it highlights so many geometric designs of nature. The face reminds me of an eagle with its beak-like mouth and flat nostrils.

Photograph by Glenn Nagel, My Shot
National Geographic

OK, I'll take your word for it that it's a tortoise.

But that sucka looks to me like a eagle...
.. a BIG eagle... big enough to carry away my 95 lb Lab

Hmmm.


Boil in the bag?

Is that Michaelangelo or Raphael?

I read the title as "spurned".

BAG? How wastefully redundant of you. This is the *original* cup of soup, family size. Doncha see that bowl on the top there?

If you can't cuddle it, it's not a pet.*

That's not looking very cuddly.

*Also, if it can cuddle you to death, it's not a pet ... no pythons.

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orly.

what do you call that broad class of "uncuddleables" then? Fish? Most birds, Torti?

Incidental biologicals ;)

Birds cuddle BTW

Lunch.

They don't like to be called broads, remember?

That's why they're uncuddleable.

Get out of my brain.