 | Peter Young - 2003 - Страниц: 212
...Darwin in his journal again: The tortoises, when moving towards any definite point, travel by night, and arrive at their journey's end much sooner than would be expected. The inhabitants, from observations on marked individuals, consider that they The concave plastron of the male enables him... | |
 | Barry Boyce - 2004 - Страниц: 334
...such seems to be the case with the tortoise. The tortoises, when purposely moving towards any point, travel by night and day and arrive at their journey's end much sooner than would be expected. One large tortoise, which I watched, walked at the rate of sixty yards in ten minutes, that is ...... | |
 | Discovery - 2005 - Страниц: 40
...animal stays three or four days in the neighborhood of the water, and then returns to the lower country. They travel a distance of about eight miles in two or three days. One large tortoise ... walked at the rate of sixty yards in ten minutes, that is 360 yards in the hour, or four miles... | |
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The tortoises, when purposely moving towards any point, travel by night and day, and arrive at their journey's end much sooner than would be expected. 
