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Showing 1 to 2 of 2 for “"leopard tortoise"”.
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Bio-mimicry of a Leopard Tortoise’ Shoulder Girdle in Space Frame Design of an Ambulance Body
… by extracting the skeletal architecture of a Leopard Tortoise’ shoulder girdles and transforming them into geometrical configurations of the patient compartment’s beam-columns. The geometrical features are then integrated with the design specifications of the selected baseline vehicle, Polaris …
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Tortoise mortalities along fences in the southeastern Karoo, South Africa
… ranching practices. Recent studies found that leopard tortoises (Stigmochelys pardalis) are more prone to dying from electrocution along electric fences than any other taxa. However, no studies have quantified tortoise mortality along non-electric fences or assessed the impact of fence …