Under the shell in Wrangell’s yards
Atlas walks around her fairly large pen in Charity Hommel’s living room. Circular windows embedded in the plywood allow the sulcata tortoise to peer out into the living space beyond her own quarters. Also known as an African spurred tortoise, she breathes through her nostrils, which are above her mouth. It sounds mildly high pitched-like when someone inflates a bicycle tire with a pump.
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