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[42itous]

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[candle-light.livejournal.com]

Scutes?

[42itous.livejournal.com]

Yes! And now I've learned a new word. :)

[candle-light.livejournal.com]

:)

[ron_newman]

Seashell?

[42itous.livejournal.com]

Nope, but in a way you've got the right idea.

[chocorua.livejournal.com]

One side of a snapping turtle, perhaps the left?

[42itous.livejournal.com]

It's the left side of a tortoise, but not a snapping turtle. The Erie Zoo's tortoise lives in the grassy area between the zebra's enclosure and the viewers, separated from us only by a wooden fence. Tortoise came close enough that I could've reached out and touched him.