Tortoises

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What is the scientific classification name of the tortoise?
Testudo Graeca
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What is the average clutch size of tortoises?
1-20
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+_Red-footed tortoises are missing a very important part of the brain... which is it?
hippocampus, which relates to emotion, learning, memory and spatial navigation.
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A tortoise shell is made out of what?
Protein
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What is the name of this protein?
Keratin
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Many species of tortoises are sexually dimorphic, what does this mean?
the condition where the two sexes of the same species exhibit different characteristics beyond the differences in their sexual organs.
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Francesco Redi conducted tortoise experiments, what were they?
He removed the heads of a land tortoise and a sea tortoise, which then lived for 60 and 28 days, respectively.
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What are the lumps on the shell known as?
Scutes
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