Contagious Yawning<\/a>.<\/p>\nThat just about does it for another day of crazy animal facts. \u00a0Perhaps tomorrow we will learn about an animal completely different from the Turtle and the Tortoise. \u00a0Enjoy the rest of your day and I will see you on Wednesday!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The last few days we have been learning about various turtle species so I thought I would mix things up for today’s Wild Fact. Instead of an interesting turtle species we are going to study the Red-Footed Tortoise. Sometimes, you just have to mix things up, right? Isn’t variety the spice of life? What?!? You say the tortoise isn’t that different from a turtle? \u00a0Well, we will discuss all of the differences shortly but first, let’s take a closer look at the Red-Footed Tortoise. This particular tortoise is native to South America but since they are so cool, they have <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4573,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4024,52],"tags":[348,2009,4025,2007,2008,2010,2011],"yoast_head":"\n
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