Tortoise Movies


Tortoise Movies

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More About Tortoises ...

Tortoise is the name given to the land-dwelling reptiles most of whose body is shielded by a special shell. Turtles and terrapins are the marine species. All living tortoises are members of the order Testudines.

Tortoises have both an endoskeleton and an exoskeleton. All Tortoises have a protective shell around their bodies. The top part of their case is called the carapace, the underside is the plastron, and the two are connected by the bridge.

The size of tortoises can vary from a few centimetres to up to two meters. Tortoises generally live a long time, some individuals being known to have lived longer than 150 years.

The giant tortoises of the Galapagos Islands helped Charles Darwin formulate his theory of evolution, since the isolated populations on the different islands, although descended from a common ancestor, had diverged to different forms. One of Darwin's tortoises, named Harriet is believed to still be alive and living in an Australian zoo.

All land tortoises are herbivorous in the wild.

The first turtles already existed in the era of the dinosaurs, some 200 million years ago. Turtles and tortoises are the only surviving branch of the even more ancient clade Anapsida, which includes groups such as the procolophonoids, millerettids and pareiasaurs. Most of the anapsids became extinct in the late Permian period, with the exception of the procolophonoids and the precursors of the testudines (turtles and tortoises).

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VIDEO CLIPS

Gopher Tortoise
4.350MB MOV View Movie
Tropical Marine Ecology Page (R. Hays Cummins, Miami University)
A view and description of a gopher tortise burrow.

Gopher Tortoise
3.710MB MOV View Movie
Tropical Marine Ecology Page (R. Hays Cummins, Miami University)
A "Classic Tortise Habitat" movie centering on one gopher tortise burrow.

Gopher Tortoise
12.730MB MOV View Movie
Tropical Marine Ecology Page (R. Hays Cummins, Miami University)
A very large gopher tortise on his way to feast on some flowers.

Gopher Tortoise
1.730MB MOV View Movie
Tropical Marine Ecology Page (R. Hays Cummins, Miami University)
A close-up movie illustrates the muscularity of gopher tortoise legs.

Gopher Tortoise
7.160MB MOV View Movie
Tropical Marine Ecology Page (R. Hays Cummins, Miami University)
The author shows off a large tortise he and his son found.

Galapagos Tortoise
0.200MB WMV View Movie
Honolulu Zoo
Galapagos Tortoise Nesting Video

Galapagos Giant Tortoise
0.580MB MPG View Movie
theBigZoo.com
Galapagos Giant Tortoise at Top speed

Galapagos Giant Tortoise
0.570MB MPG View Movie
theBigZoo.com
Galapagos Giant Tortoise with Open mouth

Forsten's tortoise
MOV View Movie
Arkive.org
Nice selection of Forsten's tortoise video clips available in various formats

Giant Tortoise
0.770MB MOV View Movie
FreeStockFootage.com
Giant tortoise walking in grass

Giant Tortoise
0.930MB MOV View Movie
FreeStockFootage.com
Giant tortoise rubbing against a rock

Giant Tortoise
0.890MB MOV View Movie
FreeStockFootage.com
Giant tortoise rubbing against a rock

Tortoise
0.540MB MOV View Movie
FreeStockFootage.com
Tortoise being annoyed by a moth

Tortoise
1.020MB MOV View Movie
FreeStockFootage.com
Tortoise being annoyed by a moth

Tortoise
0.500MB MOV View Movie
Creatas
Tortoise walking in the desert

Tortoise
0.990MB MOV View Movie
DVArchive
Large tortoise or turtle walking

Galapagos Tortoise
MOV View Movie
Video Worldbook
Galapagos Tortoise clip

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