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The tortoise is its reputation suggests: long living, slow, reclusive, with that hard protective shell. The oldest confirmed record is one hundred and eighty eight years but there are tortoises that are believed to have lived to two hundred and fifty years. This longevity may be due to the low metabolism, or the low metabolism may be what causes their slowness.

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The tortoise mostly eat grasses and weeds, and needs little water. In the wild the age...

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