Tortoise Slowly on the Mend After Hitting the Hard Stuff

Freddie the tortoise was pretty much screwed, and by that I mean he had seven wood screws lodged in his guts along with a staple, shards of glass, stones and a hunk of caulk. He needed surgery — stat! — and a transfusion. But where would doctors find other African spurred tortoises willing to stick their necks out and donate life-saving blood? If there were a reptilian version of “ER,” this episode would earn whatever coldblooded vertebrates had instead of an Emmy. Freddie is now 15 inches long with a bumpy shell the color of a pizza left in the...

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