Is There a Finite Number in Tortoise?

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Tortoises have different personalities turtle to turtle, they really do. Zulie tells you about her favourite tortoise: grumpy gertrude. She says that soft shell turtles look like a rubbery pancake made out of mud. But all other turtles and tortoises can be completely like close gunfishing. And then there's thers defintly personality. They can get all the way in them so that they're just like amarabita. Ya, but some, like sea turtles, can't do that.

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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Transcripts by Emily White of The Wordary

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