Anyways, I was taking a friend's daughter to horse camp and this beautiful and enormous tortoise was crossing the street. I have never seen one this large in the wild before and so naturally I stopped to gawk at it...and allow it to cross the street safely. Well, all was going well until the tortoise, I am going to call him Melville, decided to crawl under my van and get stuck. I got out of the van and watched Melville for a little while and eventually had to help him out. Luckily he was okay and after the ordeal seemed to look back at me like he wanted to say, "you ruined my shady oasis lady...also thanks for helping me out...I better not find this on Facebook!". Because I imagine tortoises talk to me. We parted on good, if slightly awkward, terms.
Anyways, I thought this was an amazing and unlikely thing to happen (my shenanigan complex) and so I was telling friends about it. Apparently tortoises can mistake the under side of a car for a burrow. This sounds kind of crazy to me but I haven't been able to pull up anything online and am certainly not an expert. Do you know anything about these "living on the edge" and daredevil tortoises?
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