This week is testutonology, which comes from the latin testuto, for tortoise. i was introduced to this testutonologist through reptile hero, doctor david steen. He introduced me to one of his favorite turtle people on maybe planet earth. She did her undergrad at the university of north florida. Her feelings on tn Minite turtles, they are very crazy,. a anatomy, let's say, and how they live so long.
We're bringing back one shell of an episode with today's encore. What's a tortoise? What's a turtle? Why do they live so dang long? What's up with their junk? Wildlife biologist and testudinologist Amanda Hipps studies gopher tortoises and dishes about turtle nomenclature, cliques, dicks, behavior, burrows, evolution, habitats and more. If you don't dig tortoises yet, you're about to fall deep into a turtle tunnel in love with them.
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