Turtle or Tortoise?
Well done to Murango who saw our lodge friend Mzee tortoise
roll into the rock catchment this morning... it turns out that even very heavy
tortoises can swim very admirably whilst they await a rescue team to bring them
out of a large expanse of very deep water... thank-you Paul and Solomon for an
intrepid rescue!
We now have to persuade Mzee (in reality Madam) tortoise to move her home elsewhere as
she is now falling over too often on our mountain top rocks and her shell is
being damaged.... we have tried moving her before but she is capable of traveling long distances to
get back home.....the lodge grass and flowers are obviously just too tasty...
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| Transport to a safer home... |
Female tortoises are usually larger with a flat under-shell (the male is
concave)and, generally (though not always) a shorter tail than the male.
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