How to pronounce “tortoise” in English

Those tortoises are fucking!

it's a tortoise and the hare thing, and the hare is playing tennis against itself.

because the tortoise keeps moving.

was the desert tortoise.

The desert tortoise is a threatened species under the US Endangered Species Act.

But one tortoise had lumbered over and made its way, trudged over, and climbed up on the back of another tortoise, and was letting out these loud, weird noises.

And there were these tortoises sort of lumbering along in the exhibit.

And then Jeff is sort of the tortoise in the race.

So Achilles will never reach the tortoise according to Zeno.

But think about the parable of the tortoise and the hare.

He's authored a book on tortoises in the Mojave Desert and has leveraged his photography to help document and build awareness of the diverse wildlife which fills our parklands

She would become a principal with tortoiseshell glasses, the entire school standing at attention when she entered the assembly hall.

And there are these cool tortoises.

to the Galápagos to find the Fernandina Island tortoise.

And the reason for this is because it's the tortoise and the hare.

So then by the time Achilles tries to reach the tortoise again, then there is again another margin of advantage for the tortoise,

So if we can divide the space separating Achilles and the tortoise in infinitely smaller fragments, we cannot divide the movements that Achilles performs.

pretty earrings, a pretty tortoise shell comb in her hair, that sort of thing.

it's super cool that we have a desert tortoise.

Could we see more of these majestic giant tortoises in the future?

So that is of a different kind than the movement of the tortoise.

The protection of Mojave Trails also protects almost a million acres of critical desert tortoise habitat, which is so important, because number one,

In America, we have four species of tortoises, and one of those lives in California.

It’s a story that can teach us something, like “The Tortoise and the Hare,” or “The Boy Who Cried Wolf,” except it really happened.

So one of them is the famous paradox of Achilles and the tortoise who are engaging in a race.

But Zeno says, well, if we gave the tortoise a certain margin of advantage, let's say a few meters, by the time Achilles will have reached

So for that reason, Achilles will definitely come to reach the tortoise.

I talked to the chair of the Moapa Paiute very recently and he said so far they've lost one tortoise

important is is this one of those cases can we accept the fact that sometimes ESOP is Right sometimes the tortoise

There about 100,000 of these creatures left in the southwest and what the Paiute did was they collected 75 of these tortoises

and that was to a coyote attack and that coyote attack could have happened in the habitat that these tortoises inhabited beforehand.

And then we make the decision, OK, it's worth going after, say, the tortoise, or it's worth going after the caiman, or one of the animals that we found,

The giant female Fernandina Island tortoise that you and your team found, and the only other confirmed Fernandina Giant tortoise

The other two scientists I mentioned-- the other two organizations, rather-- had done multiple expeditions to this island, looking for the tortoise, and had been unsuccessful.

I'd been to the Turtle Conservancy, in Ojai, and met a man named Ross Kiester, who said, I swear to god, I found tortoise droppings

And I met another man, also through the Turtle Conservancy, who said, I swear to you, I saw bite marks that were from a tortoise on a cactus up on that mountain.

Now, the scientists that we all are, I was 100% convinced it was Fern because there are no other tortoise species on that island.

of change and movement, because it is applying the same vision that Zeno was paradoxically presenting in the race of Achilles and the tortoise.

The last section of the book, which is broken into five sections, is called the tortoise and the hare.

And I think that Nintendo, during this time, really was very much the tortoise, just not reacting to Sega for a while, very much to their detriment.

There was no reason there should be another species, unless someone in perhaps the Charles Darwin era had picked up tortoises and dropped them off on Fernandina, which would

Her hair was swept back into an unfussy French twist and secured with a single, tiny, tortoiseshell pin.

So of course, the Galapagos are very well known, are very famous for their giant tortoises, the blue-footed, red-footed boobies,