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Monthly Archives: November 2017

Borderlands Bestiary

We couldn’t move the desert tortoise off the dirt road because, when those long-living testudinidae are frightened, they void their bladders, stripping themselves of hydration. In the desert, where water is scarce, this puts the tortoises in a deadly position, twenty or fifty or eighty years of life suddenly cut short by a careless human. […]