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Here's a Tortoise T
TORTOISE—Makes no progress.
CHAPTER FIVE
By ROY CHAPMAN ANDREWS
Noted Naturalist and Explorer THERE IS now on St. Helena a tortoise from Aldabra that lived on the island when Napoleon was there more than a entury ago. How old this when hrought to St But as it seems, its age
tortoise was
Helena we
do not know, venerahle
ig exceeded
by that of another tortoise which is living on the island ofc Mauritius, In 1510 it was
specifically mentioned as a national possession in the treaty
by which the French ceded Mauritius to England. It was said to have lived
there seventy vears previously so_it is safe to conclude that
it is about two hundred years eld. TI historic tortoises 5 Rave attained the greatest ages
recorded for any animals, They are the oldest known- members
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NOTE: A continuation of the fascinating story of Nature's way in equipping her creatures to defend themselves, to obtain the necessities of life. Before man was known, it is believed the animal
world had mech-
anisms similar to the modern’
tank, camouflage, even radar. This is the fifth installment of a series by Mr. Andrews, noted as the head for many years of the American Museum of Natural History. These articles are from his recent book,
NATURE'S WAYS.
of an ancient and’ long lived
race, for even such little species as our box turtle reaches a good old age - Tortoises go back far ‘into the geological past and seem to have changed very little with the passing of time, Even those of forty million years ago looked almost like the living animals of today.
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