Tortoises

Tortoises — page 1 — LIVING WILD Published by Creative Education P O Box 227 Mankato Minnesota 56002 Creative Education is an imprint of The Creative Company www thecreativecompany us Design and production by Mary Herrmann Art direction by Rita Marshall Printed in the United States of America Photographs by Alamy All Canada Photos blickwinkel Everett Collection Inc INTERFOTO Juniors Bildarchiv Craig Lovell Eagle Visions Photography Corbis Stapleton Collection Dreamstime Pierre-yves Babelon Mikhail Blajenov Landd09 lorboaz Jesús Eloy Ramos Lara Teddykebab Xunbin Pan Joanne Zh Getty Images Fotosearch Gallo Images-Anthony Bannister Pete Oxford Kevin Schafer Paul Souders Jerry Young ZSSD iStockphoto Rainer von Brandis Dewitt Darren Gidney Darrin Henry Holly Kuchera Chet Mitchell Stacey Newman photoBlueIce DARLA Smedley Nico Smit Angelika Stern Alexey Stiop Photolibrary Bios Peter Arnold Shutterstock born2bark clickit pinggr Tom Willard zbynê-k springer Wikipedia Hans Hillewaert Claire Houck Joseph Smit Copyright 2013 Creative Education International copyright reserved in all countries No part of this book may be reproduced in any form without written permission from the publisher Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Gish Melissa Tortoises by Melissa Gish p cm Living wild Includes bibliographical references and index Summary A look at tortoises including their habitats physical characteristics such as their domed shells behaviors relationships with humans and protected status in the world today ISBN 978-1-60818-170-4 hard cover ISBN 978-1-56660-132-0 eBook 1 Testudinidae Juvenile literature I Title QL666 C584G57 2012 597 92’4 dc23 2011035794 First Edition 987654321 CREATIVE EDUCATION

Tortoises — page 2 — TORTOISES Melissa Gish

Tortoises — page 3 — It is late March and a cool breeze bends a sparse patch of dry grass in the clay desert of eastern

Tortoises — page 4 — Uzbekistan The soil around a small burrow begins to shift and a dry scaly head emerges

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