A week before Thanksgiving, Hoss, a 35-pound sulcata tortoise, slips his enclosure at Sam and Christy Wheeler’s 24-acre farm in unincorporated Hood County, and after roaming the neighborhood for three ...
A surprising number of Texas tortoises go on the lam. NPR's Scott Simon talks with Brenda Bush of Central Texas Tortoise Rescue about how to keep a tortoise from going astray. So how fast can a ...
Jackie Tliemat is a PhD student at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi studying diseases in Texas Tortoises May 23, 2024 is World Turtle Day Texas Tortoises are a threatened species and people often ...
WHO: Diego the South American yellow-footed tortoise. WHAT: After a harrowing 38 days apart, Diego the tortoise and his #tortdad, former San Marcos mayor Daniel Guerrero, were reunited. WHY IT’S SO ...
Around 3 p.m. Wednesday afternoon, Lisa Seger, co-owner of Blue Heron Farm and Beer Garden in rural Waller County, Texas, walked outside to check on her 90-pound, 30-year-old tortoise, Jeremy. But as ...
DIBOLL, Texas (KXAN) — One-hundred yards might not seem far, but for a 100-pound pet tortoise it was a trip of a lifetime. On Monday, officers with the Diboll Police Department in East Texas came ...
A 180-pound Texas tortoise who broke out of his backyard last month has been reunited with his owner. Gabriel Fernandez, who owns Lorenzo the tortoise, told USA TODAY on Friday that his beloved ...
Jeremy, a thirty-year-old tortoise with a cult following, was reported missing by his owners in Waller—who noted that he was wearing an Apple AirTag that was in “lost mode”—and was found the following ...
Nobody ever said turtles worked quickly. Though it took him nearly a century, the 90-year-old radiated tortoise known as Mr. Pickles is finally a dad. The Houston Zoo announced on Thursday that he and ...
The conventional wisdom is that tortoises and cattle don't mix. But new research shows that the Texas tortoise and cattle can share rangelands as long as the grazing is managed. "Generalities about ...
So how fast can a determined tortoise go? Fast enough to make a quick getaway from their owners. We read this week in Texas Monthly that tortoise escapes are surprisingly frequent in that state in ...
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