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    • First Aid Skills (to be deleted)
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The Tortoise Library is the #1 tortoise husbandry reference site online. Within these pages you will find information on pet tortoises ranging from anatomy, taxonomy, and beginner's basics, to breeding, nutrition and common tortoise ailments.
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